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Boulton, Alex – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Corpora are not the preserve of corpus linguists. In education, learners and teachers can analyse almost any collection of text for linguistic or non-linguistic purposes where regular reading is not efficient or feasible. This paper describes students' first contact with corpora in a distance master's degree where they are required to build a…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Distance Education
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Jordan, LuAnn; Spooner, Fred; Anderson, Kelly; Dillon, Ann S. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2019
For more than 20 years, distance education has provided an option for prospective special education teachers to achieve licensure and a graduate degree. The program began as a two-way interactive television endeavor located at area community college sites. Over time, the program evolved to include online coursework with synchronous class meetings.…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Students with Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Certification
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Backenroth, Ofra Arieli; Katz, Meredith Lynn – Religious Education, 2017
Online programs are becoming more ubiquitous in higher education; however, there has been a lack of research on the merit of this style of educating. Using the concept of constructivism as a framework, the idea that individuals construct their own understanding of world experiences, the authors generated a case study to explore the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Distance Education, Guidelines, Case Studies
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Cooke, Nicole A. – Online Learning, 2016
In a study of the information behaviors of graduate students enrolled in an online Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program, it was determined that learners engage in threaded discussions not only for cognitive purposes but for affective reasons as well. The information sharing among students was particularly prolific during a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, Information Science, Library Science
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Ellingson, Dee Ann; Notbohm, Matthew – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
Online distance education can take many forms, from a correspondence course with materials online to fully synchronous, live instruction. This paper describes a fully synchronous, live format using web-conferencing. Some useful features of web-conferencing and the way they are employed in this course are described. Instructor observations and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Videoconferencing, Course Descriptions
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Owen, David; Hudson, Brian; Tervola, Tarja – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2006
The paper presents an evaluation of student and tutor experiences in the introductory module of a European Masters programme in e-Learning, Multimedia and Consultancy. The aims and outline of the Masters programme are described, together with the pedagogical approach adopted in the introductory module which explores open and flexible learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Graduate Students, College Faculty