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Virtual Pathways to Authentic Learning: Exploring Instructional Technology Intern Experiences Online
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Direct linkLaura McNeill; Mohammad Mohi Uddin; Lesley Regalado – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
Although research exists on traditional and virtual internships, there is a significant gap in understanding virtual instructional technology (IT) internships for graduate students. Specifically, this study addresses three key areas: (1) the unique benefits and challenges experienced by graduate students in virtual IT internships, (2) the…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Educational Technology, Guided Pathways, Internship Programs
Devine, Jessica L.; Bourgault, Kristen S.; Schwartz, Ruth N. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Academic programs commonly feature a capstone experience as the final building block of the course of study. Often, capstone experiences allow students to demonstrate mastery in the context of an authentic learning experience--a real-life problem or project situated in the field of practice. The growing number of academic programs conducted online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Capstone Experiences, Authentic Learning, Distance Education
Lee, Kyungmee – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Under the constructivist learning paradigm, which emphasises authenticity as a required condition for learning, distance educators have been striving to create authentic learning environments that reflect the real world. However, it is inevitably challenging to make an online learning environment authentic for learners when it is ultimately…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Authentic Learning, Doctoral Programs
Lowell, Victoria L.; Moore, Robert L. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Integrating authentic learning opportunities into online courses can be particularly challenging. These challenges have contributed to a lack of examples (i.e., case studies) of how online instructors have successfully integrated authentic learning into their courses (Vo et al. 2018). This article fills this gap by describing the process of…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Online Courses, Instructional Design, Authentic Learning
Gurjar, Nandita – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
This research examined how leveraging social networks in distance learning facilitated authentic learning in a 4-week teacher-education course. The pilot study aimed to examine the course design, and learner perceptions of social networks in distance learning. The course design was structured around nine principles of the authentic learning…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Authentic Learning, Distance Education, Teacher Education
Sweany, Noelle Wall; Finbow, Emily; Li, Yun; Burgner, Rebecca L. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
This paper offers lessons learned from a partnership between the Texas A&M School of Innovation (I-School) and the Texas A&M Educational Technology program. Taking on the I-School as a "client," online graduate students in an Advanced Instructional Design course spent a semester designing the first of a set of online educational…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Authentic Learning, Distance Education, Institutional Cooperation
