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Edmonds, Gerald; Pusch, Rob – Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2022
This guide is a companion to the "Adult Learning Planning Framework. Toolkit" (ED614137). It works in partnership with the framework while considering the unique challenges associated with the development of engaging and effective online, asynchronous learning experiences that have become embedded in the fabric of learning for all. The…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Asynchronous Communication, Instructional Design, Learning Experience
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Pryor, Jessica; Wilson, Randal H.; Chapman, Melissa; Bates, Felicia – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2020
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019 and early 2020, universities, schools, and businesses in the United States closed and moved online (CDC, 2020; "A Timeline of COVID-19 Developments in 2020," 2020). By April, 2020, it became clear that the school year would end virtually, (Anderson, 2020). Teachers throughout the United…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Renner, Jasmine – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2017
The growing impact of online research communities and emerging technologies is creating a significant paradigm shift and consequently changing the current research landscape of higher education. The rise of online research communities exemplifies a shift from traditional research engagements, to online research communities using "Web…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Online Systems, Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication
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Slavin, Laura C. – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2015
In this article, a librarian at Lincoln Memorial University creates library services for an MBA program offered entirely online that is in the early stages of development. The library services include a subject guide and 4 tutorials that will be added to the MBA online orientation. Other services include offering online office hours and…
Descriptors: Library Services, Business Administration Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Library Development
Fox, Christine; Waters, John; Fletcher, Geoff; Levin, Douglas – State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2012
It is a simple fact that access to high-speed broadband is now as vital a component of K-12 school infrastructure as electricity, air conditioning, and heating. The same tools and resources that have transformed educators' personal, civic, and professional lives must be part of learning experiences intended to prepare today's students for college…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Internet, Telecommunications, Information Technology
Mncube-Barnes, Fatima Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study was designed to determine whether faculty members utilized collaboration tools within Desire2Learn Inc., in accordance with Chickering and Gamson's (1987) "Seven Principles of Good Practice: A Framework for Evaluating Effective Teaching in Undergraduate Education." The population for this study was faculty members at…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Electronic Learning, Internet, Computer Mediated Communication
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Porter, Marclyn D. – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2011
Many alternatively certified teachers, as was the case in this study, are employed as the teacher of record while simultaneously enrolled in education courses. Therefore, experiencing the collaborative, supportive, peer mentoring environmental elements that are present in many traditional "fieldwork" settings is not an option. By…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Professional Development, Beginning Teachers, Alternative Teacher Certification
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Havard, Byron; Du, Jianxia; Olinzock, Anthony – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
A structure for online discussion within a framework for deep learning provides three strategies for dynamic online discussion; flexible peer, structured topic, and collaborative task discussion. This article examines the discussion structure and the three separate roles demonstrated by the instructor in the promotion of deep learning through the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Models, Teacher Role