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Direct linkXie, Jingrong; A, Gulinna; Rice, Mary F.; Griswold, Deborah E. – Distance Education, 2021
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic provided the opportunity for institutions of higher education to increase their use of online instructional delivery models and tools. Instructional designers played a role in supporting instructors to make this transition. This support included professional learning opportunities in the form of workshops and…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
Macdonald, Janet; Poniatowska, Barbara – Distance Education, 2011
We maintain that an understanding of the working contexts of staff is a critical consideration when designing for effective professional development. The process of embedding theory into good practice does not simply depend on the design of a good seminar, because it may also be affected by who else attends, or perhaps by who the participants talk…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Open Universities, Faculty Development
Xiao, Junhong – Distance Education, 2012
Teachers' influence on students' learning motivation is a well-researched topic. Nevertheless, the majority of such studies are situated in the conventional learning context despite the rapid growth of distance language learning. This study set out to investigate tutors' influence on students' learning motivation in the Chinese distance language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Distance Education, Teacher Characteristics
Alvino, Serena; Asensio-Perez, Juan I.; Dimitriadis, Yannis; Hernandez-Leo, Davinia – Distance Education, 2009
Distance and blended collaborative learning settings are usually characterized by different "social structures" defined in terms of groups' number, dimension, and composition; these structures are variable and can change within the same activity. This variability poses additional complexity to instructional designers, when they are…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Educational Principles, Cooperative Learning, Case Studies
Jelfs, Anne; Richardson, John T. E.; Price, Linda – Distance Education, 2009
Questionnaire responses of 457 students and 602 tutors were used to investigate conceptions of a "good tutor." In each case, factor analysis identified scales that reflected key constructs; cluster analysis identified subgroups with different patterns of scale scores; and discriminant analysis determined the scales that contributed the…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Open Universities, Mail Surveys
Samarawickrema, Gayani; Stacey, Elizabeth – Distance Education, 2007
Most universities worldwide are becoming distance education providers through adopting web-based learning and teaching via the introduction of learning management systems that enable them to open their courses to both on- and off-campus students. Whether this is an effective introduction depends on factors that enable and impede the adoption of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Systems, Distance Education, Educational Technology
