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Stark, Emily – Online Learning, 2019
The goal of this paper is to compare the motivations and learning strategies of online and face-to-face students, utilizing the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (Pintrich et al., 1993). Prior research (Crede & Phillips, 2011) suggests that motivation variables play a larger role in predicting student success in online courses…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Strategies, Online Courses, Questionnaires
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Wavle, Sharon; Ozogul, Gamze – Online Learning, 2019
This study expands on current research that examines the impact of online courses on retention, degree completion, and student success. The researchers investigated the impact of online courses on degree completion by using existing graduation rate data, course enrollment data, and student grades for undergraduate students at a multicampus 4-year…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Correlation, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement
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Fendler, Richard J.; Ruff, Craig; Shrikhande, Milind M. – Online Learning, 2018
Much of the e-education literature suggests that no significant difference exists in aggregate student learning outcomes between online and face-to-face instruction. In this study, an empirical model is developed to forecast the grade that individual students would have most likely earned in the alternate class setting. Students for whom the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Online Courses, Grades (Scholastic), Conventional Instruction
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Peddibhotla, Naren – Online Learning, 2016
The case study is a classic tool used in several educational programs that emphasizes solving of illdefined problems. Though it has been used in classroom-based teaching and educators have developed a rich repertoire of methods, its use in online courses presents different challenges. To explore factors that develop skills in solving ill-defined…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Graduate Study
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Carver, Lin B.; Mukherjee, Keya; Lucio, Robert – Online Learning, 2017
Online education is rapidly becoming a significant method of course delivery in higher education. Consequently, instructors analyze student performance in an attempt to better scaffold student learning. Learning analytics can provide insight into online students' course behaviors. Archival data from 167 graduate level education students enrolled…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Correlation, Grades (Scholastic), Time on Task
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Preisman, Kristi A. – Online Learning, 2014
Most often the topic of creating presence in online education is viewed from the student perspective (Oztok & Brett, 2011). The purpose of this mixed methods research was to look at the creation of teaching presence from the vantage point of a "lone ranger" instructor (Anderson, 2004). Based on data collected from student grades,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Mixed Methods Research