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Emine Kulusakli – SAGE Open, 2025
This study examines a possible relationship between flexibility (content, teacher contact, and time) and student engagement (cognitive, emotional, and behavioral) in distance learning in higher education. The study applies a quantitative approach to give a response to the hypothesis of the research whether flexibility in distance education is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learner Engagement, Distance Education, State Universities
Emre Dinç; Jennifer Sisco Babb; Maria Scalzi Wherley – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
This study aimed to investigate undergraduates' perspectives of online syllabus design and interactivity in an asynchronous geoscience course. The study was grounded in previous research on syllabus design and interactivity and used a multiple case study design to gather data from five participants. The course had multiple sections, each with a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Course Descriptions, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement
Güler, Kutay – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
Design education has traditionally been deemed a face-to-face endeavor causing online learning to be disregarded as a viable teaching option. Nonetheless, the recent impact of COVID-19 pressured design schools to rapidly migrate online, impelling many educators to utilize this unfamiliar and largely dismissed methodology. The impending problems…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Design, Electronic Learning, Student Experience
Jessica Misha Reece – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The demand for colleges across the world to convert their courses to an online format has increased with the number of learners enrolled in at least one online course increasing each year (Seaman et al., 2018). Unfortunately, a study by Garris & Fleck (2020) found that many students complained that when their courses transitioned to an online…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship
Zohra Ghali; Amina Amari – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Over the last decade, online learning has seen considerable growth, with this being supported by the rapid development of the Internet and other technologies. It is therefore vitally important for academics and practicians to evaluate the effectiveness of e-learning, so they can enhance the learners' acquisition of knowledge and the performance of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Self Efficacy, Educational Technology, Instructional Effectiveness
Wanju Huang; Kerrie Douglas; Tiantian Li; Audeen Fentiman – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2023
This paper discusses the instructional design experiences and processes shared by a multi-disciplinary group--including more than a dozen faculty, staff, and students--while developing a series of online courses on Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for professional engineers, a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The team…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Engineering Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Approach
Wong, Billy Tak-ming – Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2021
Purpose: This paper examines the pedagogical features of massive open online courses (MOOCs) for language learning--known as language MOOCs. The mainstream pedagogy of MOOCs typically involves the provision of short videos and reading materials for self-study; discussion forums, mostly for peer-to-peer interaction on course content; and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Video Technology
O'Keefe, L.; Rafferty, J.; Gunder, A.; Vignare, K. – Online Learning Consortium, 2020
Today, as educators are transitioning into a new phase of planning for an uncertain summer and fall, they can be more thoughtful about how to deliver high quality online learning. On the positive side, online delivery as an instructional modality is not new. In fact, many colleges and universities have been developing and delivering successful…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction, Instructional Design
Ryan A. Burke; Jamie J. Jirout; Bethany A. Bell – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Cognitive engagement is an essential component in student learning. With the increase of more asynchronous virtual educational tools in classrooms, there is a need to understand how students are engaging with classroom content in these formats. Several studies have examined student and teacher perceptions of cognitive engagement in virtual…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Learner Engagement, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
Using Insights from Teachers to Inform Online Professional Development in Early Literacy Instruction
DeIaco, Robyn; Samuelson, Courtney; Grifenhagen, Jill; Davis, Dennis S.; Kosanovich, Marcia – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2022
This thematic analysis utilizes teacher insights from their experiences in an online professional development (PD) course on early reading instruction to determine course design features educators perceive as being beneficial and questions and concerns educators raised during the course. We analyzed discussion forum contributions and course…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Literacy Education, Teacher Attitudes, Invented Spelling
Ha Jeen Choi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative case study explored how course context, such as course design, facilitation, and community, supports students' basic psychological needs and thus shapes their situational motivation to participate in asynchronous online discussions in different course contexts. Three upper-level undergraduate courses in different disciplines were…
Descriptors: Course Content, Student Motivation, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication

Ryan A. Burke; Jamie J. Jirout; Bethany A. Bell – Grantee Submission, 2024
Cognitive engagement is an essential component in student learning. With the increase of more asynchronous virtual educational tools in classrooms, there is a need to understand how students are engaging with classroom content in these formats. Several studies have examined student and teacher perceptions of cognitive engagement in virtual…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Learner Engagement, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
Wilson, Chanelle; Soslau, Elizabeth – Teaching Education, 2022
Graduate programs for inservice teachers seeking additional credentialing often include a mandatory diversity course. One aim of these types of courses is to help teachers recognize and dismantle their racial biases in hopes that this self-reflection process will enable teachers to use antiracist teaching approaches and create classroom…
Descriptors: White Teachers, Graduate Study, Teacher Education, Diversity
Blobstein, Ariel; Gal, Kobi; Kim, Hyunsoo Gloria; Facciotti, Marc; Karger, David; Sripathi, Kamali – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
Emoji are commonly used in social media to convey attitudes and emotions. While popular, their use in educational contexts has been sparsely studied. This paper reports on the students' use of emoji in an online course forum in which students annotate and discuss course material in the margins of the online textbook. For this study, instructors…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Social Media, Online Courses
Milheim, Karen L.; Fraenza, Christy; Palermo-Kielb, Kimberly – Online Learning, 2021
Understanding the experiences of students who self-initiate mobile device use for online courses or course-related activities provides institutions with valuable insights. In this study, we report how students enrolled in online courses in higher education voluntarily used mobile devices for their coursework and course-related activities, the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Learning Activities