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Andres Leonardo Mora Carpio; Rafael Romero-Reveron; Milagros Vasquez; Jose Antonio Bonilla Castillo; Lucía Gaitán Concepción; Romina Pano Carrera; Diego Liévanos Díaz; Benjamín Galván Menéndez Conde; Miryam Montbrun; Anabel Espinoza-Luna; Joan Kreiger; John Lucian Davis; Carolyn Rochester; Andres Martin – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
This study assesses the acceptability, appropriateness, feasibility, and efficacy of a novel asynchronous video-based intervention for teaching respiratory physiology and anatomy to medical students in resource-limited settings. A series of short video lectures on pleural anatomy, pulmonary physiology, and pathophysiology was created using…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Access to Education, Medical Education, Anatomy
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Rehm, Martin; Daly, Alan; Bjorklund, Peter; Liou, Yi-Hwa; del Fresno, Miguel – Elementary School Journal, 2021
Educational leadership is a widely discussed topic in educational science. However, although the study of social networks in (informal) educational settings is gaining interest in recent years, the intersection between leadership and online social networks has received limited attention. This article investigates the informal sets of networks in…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Elementary Schools, Principals, Faculty Development
Andrew Bacher-Hicks; Joshua Goodman; Christine Mulhern – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources as schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By April 2020, nationwide search intensity for both school- and parent-centered online learning resources had roughly doubled relative to baseline. Areas of the country with higher…
Descriptors: Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
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Birkeland, Nils Rune; Drange, Eli-Marie Danbolt; Tønnessen, Elise Seip – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2015
This article takes its outset in findings from an ongoing research project investigating the use of digital and multimodal resources in teacher education (TE) in Norway. The material studied is mandatory assignments in different courses in TE, asking how teacher students collaborate through digital media in their production of texts for learning,…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Investigations, Teacher Education Programs, Assignments
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Mariki, Belingtone Eliringia – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
This paper is an academic observation of an Educational Multimedia Content development-training programme funded by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Tanzania. This project focused on skills development in script writing and in radio and video programme development, aimed at transforming selected subjects from text to multimedia content. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multimedia Materials, Adult Education, Adult Educators
Association Supporting Computer Users in Education, 2019
The Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) is a group of people interested in small college computing issues. It is a blend of people from all over the country who use computers in their teaching, academic support, and administrative support functions. Begun in 1968 as the College and University Eleven-Thirty Users' Group…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Open Educational Resources
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Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Paskevicius, Michael – Distance Education, 2012
Like many universities worldwide, the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa has joined the open educational resources (OER) movement, making a selection of teaching and learning materials available through its OER directory, UCT OpenContent. However, persuading and then supporting busy academics to share their teaching materials as OER…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Graduate Students, Student Role
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Bebell, Damian; Kay, Rachel – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2010
This paper examines the educational impacts of the Berkshire Wireless Learning Initiative (BWLI), a pilot program that provided 1:1 technology access to all students and teachers across five public and private middle schools in western Massachusetts. Using a pre/post comparative study design, the current study explores a wide range of program…
Descriptors: Research Design, Middle Schools, Pilot Projects, Research Methodology
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Thakrar, Jayshree; Zinn, Denise; Wolfenden, Freda – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13 African institutions and 5 international…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Consortia, Educational Resources
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Lentell, Helen; O'Rourke, Jennifer – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004
Open and distance learning (ODL) is increasingly being regarded as a viable policy option for developing countries with limited educational resources for buildings, books and trained teachers, seeking to increase accessibility for large numbers of learners in education and training opportunities. Advocates of ODL as an appropriate solution to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Distance Education, College Faculty, Educational Opportunities
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers