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Zooming Support: Stories of How a Pandemic and SAMR Improved Preservice Art Education Instruction
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McComb, Camilla; Leonard, Nicholas; Letts, Michael; Ruopp, Amy; Todd, Cindy; Yang, Guey-Meei; Zaszlavik, Katalin – Art Education, 2022
The transition to hybrid and online instruction during the 2020 pandemic presented unprecedented challenges to the field of art education. This resulted in newly formed communities of inquiry and support, representing a wide range of technological skills and teaching experience. This article spotlights the Michigan Art Education Association (MAEA)…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers
The Role of Communication in the Success/Failure of Remote Learning of Chemistry during COVID-19
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Kollalpitiya, Konara Y.; Partigianoni, Colleen M.; Adsmond, Daniel A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
Owing to the COVID-19 global pandemic, three chemistry instructors at Ferris State University, with no previous online instructional experience, made the abrupt midsemester switch from face-to-face to remote delivery in their respective chemistry courses. This paper discusses the importance of communication during the rapid change to remote…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
The Role of Postgraduate Students in Co-Authoring Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Inclusion: A Case Study at the University of Cape Town
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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
Service-Learning from a Distance: Partnering Multiple Universities and Local Governments in a Large Scale Initiative
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Poindexter, Sandra; Arnold, Pamela; Osterhout, Christopher – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2009
Service-learning can be academically effective even when the distances between students and client organizations prevent face-to-face interchanges and site visits. Working with the State of Michigan and Michigan Townships Association, Michigan students from five universities learned about local government while helping Michigan townships develop…
Descriptors: Local Government, Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, Distance Education
Cashing in on Virtual Courses
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Fogg, Piper – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
In this article, the author presents Daryl L. Barton. Ms. Barton works as an associate professor of law at Eastern Michigan University. Despite having a steady job, money was still her concern until she tried teaching online. She puts in hundreds of hours online each year evaluating student work, responding to e-mail messages, and recording…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication
Do International Online Collaborative Learning Projects Impact Ethnocentrism?
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Boehm, Diane; Kurthen, Hermann; Aniola-Jedrzejek, Lilianna – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2010
Preparing students for success in a globalized world invites new approaches. Online collaboration between students from different countries via globally networked learning environments (GNLEs) is one such approach. This article presents the results of a six-semester study beginning in 2006 of international online project collaborations between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Ethnocentrism, International Education
Global Information Infrastructure: The Birth, Vision, and Architecture.
Targowski, Andrew S. – 1996
A new world has arrived in which computer and communications technologies will transform the national and global economies into information-driven economies. This is triggering the Information Revolution, which will have political and societal impacts every bit as profound as those of the Industrial Revolution. The 21st century is viewed as one…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Educational Technology