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Direct linkWang, Danhua – Innovative Higher Education, 2005
This multicase study investigated the learning experiences of four college students identified respectively as internal and external locus of control. They were taking a basic educational technology course that supplemented classroom teaching with two course web sites. Four categories that characterized their learning experiences suggested some…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Educational Technology, Locus of Control, Web Based Instruction
Download full textMillman, Howard L. – 1978
Described is a program entitled "Creating a Safe Space," designed to remove consciously the major elements which contribute to college students' experiences and feelings that they are victims of extended controls. The course is described as: (1) an experience of both the removal of extended controls and evaluations and the addition of a new…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Change, College Students, Guides
Morgan, Alistair R. – 1986
Changes in a group of students' conception of learning over 6 years of part-time study were investigated at Great Britain's Open University. The direct exploration of students' experiences of learning involved a qualitative and phenomenological research paradigm. Learning was described in the context of the natural setting based on the learner's…
Descriptors: College Students, Competence, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Hoffnung, Robert J.; Sack, Allan L. – 1981
The issue of whether higher education reduces or reproduces structured social inequality was investigated by comparing the background, current educational experiences, and expectations regarding future work of freshmen and senior liberal arts students who attend upper, middle, and working class universities. Responses were received from 173 Yale…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Freshmen, College Seniors, College Students
