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Schmidt, Steven W.; Hodge, Elizabeth M.; Tschida, Christina M. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2013
Not enough is known about the online instructor in higher education and about the experiences of instructors who move from face-to-face to online teaching. It is within the context of higher education that this research project on the processes by which faculty learn to teach online was conducted. Specifically, the study addressed the following…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teaching Skills, Skill Development, Web Based Instruction
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Adcock, Amy B.; Duggan, Molly H.; Nelson, Elizabeth K.; Nickel, Christine – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2006
This article describes an exploratory study of two Web-based learning environments designed to teach helping skills to human service students. Participants used either an interactive pedagogical agent environment or read a helper-client script. Environments were compared and learning gains were assessed in each of the environments, along with user…
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Communication Skills, Human Services, Skill Development
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Riley, William; Anderson, Paige – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2006
The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of cooperative learning on cognitive outcomes in a public health graduate level Web-based distance education course. Specifically, the authors use a randomized control trial to determine the impact of two teaching pedagogies on learning effectiveness in three areas of the cognitive domain: (1)…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Public Health, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods