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Direct linkAller, Ty B.; Kelley, Heather H.; Fauth, Elizabeth B.; Barrett, Tyson S. – Prevention Science, 2022
Mental health literacy (MHL) training is essential in college environments. These programs are commonly delivered in-person via workshops or for-credit courses. Campuses now seek high-quality online options. We compare the effectiveness of a for-credit MHL course against a comparison course, focusing on whether online asynchronous delivery was as…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Comparative Analysis, Advocacy, College Environment
Download full textDoolittle, Martha – Online Submission, 2020
This report highlights successes and lessons learned from Austin Independent School District's 2020 virtual learning summer school programs. More than 13,000 AISD students in prekindergarten through grade 12 participated in these programs, which offered academic enrichment or acceleration, course credit recovery, and grade level transition.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Summer Programs, Supplementary Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Mosavian, Penelope – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2020
Designing a course of academic English for 94 teachers to teach 1,200 students based in different parts of the world might present a challenge to any course development team. Add into that mix the transformation of a program from traditional face-to-face delivery, to a course delivered fully online, with teachers in different time zones using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes, Instructional Design
DeBoer, Jennifer; Ho, Andrew D.; Stump, Glenda S.; Breslow, Lori – Educational Researcher, 2014
In massive open online courses (MOOCs), low barriers to registration attract large numbers of students with diverse interests and backgrounds, and student use of course content is asynchronous and unconstrained. The authors argue that MOOC data are not only plentiful and different in kind but require reconceptualization--new educational variables…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Class Size, Educational Environment
Corlett, Bradly – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2014
Several recent issues and trends in online education have resulted in consolidation of efforts for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), increased Open Educational Resources (OER) in the form of asynchronous course repositories, with noticeable increases in governance and policy amplification. These emerging enrollment trends in alternative online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Open Source Technology, Asynchronous Communication, Transfer Students
Vasquez, Eleazar, III; Straub, Carrie – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2012
Online environments increasingly are becoming a part of our schools. While online education holds tremendous promise--offering viable and attractive options for advancing student skills, increasing access, and potentially lowering the cost of educational services--there is little research on the efficacy of online instruction for students with…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Evidence, Electronic Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Gadbois, Manon; Quildon, Denise – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2013
This paper reports on the development and implementation in 2012 of McGill University's French at Work program for McGill employees, using a blended learning model. The program is an example of how a reduction in face-to-face teaching presents one solution to employees' scheduling constraints and how this model might offer suggestions for the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Management Systems, French, Second Language Instruction
Sextos, Anastasios G. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
This paper presents the structure of an undergraduate course entitled "programming techniques and the use of specialised software in structural engineering" which is offered to the fifth (final) year students of the Civil Engineering Department of Aristotle University Thessaloniki in Greece. The aim of this course is to demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Civil Engineering
Education Week, 2010
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed legislation this month promoting the growth of virtual schools. The new law requires the state to develop policies for approving and monitoring a wide array of private and nonprofit online education providers. The legislative action in Virginia is the most recent major policy move by a state to expand the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, State Standards, Online Courses
Betts, Kristen – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2009
Approximately 3.9 million students enrolled in at least one online course in fall 2007. According to Allen and Seaman (2008), online education growth rates have continued to outpace total higher education growth rates and there are no signs of online growth slowing down. As higher education institutions offer increasing numbers of online and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Communication Research, Online Courses
Ramaswami, Rama – Campus Technology, 2009
The US economic downturn has resulted in many professionals, job seekers, and high school graduates heading back to school to develop new skills, but fewer of these students can afford a conventional four-year college education today. Community and technical colleges typically charge tuition fees that are less than half of those at public…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Community Colleges, Colleges, Higher Education
Parsad, Basmat; Lewis, Laurie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2008
This report provides national estimates on distance education at degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the 2006-07 academic year. While this report covers many of the topics in the previous three reports, the data are not comparable. The definition of distance education in the 2006-07 study reflected two major changes from earlier studies.…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Enrollment, Colleges
