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Download full textSinem Cilligol Karabey; Selcuk Karaman – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2024
This study aimed to systematically compile the activities and applications to be used by instructors to conduct synchronous virtual classrooms effectively. Using specific keywords in various databases we examined the literature to discover the activities and applications associated with effective synchronous virtual classrooms. A total of 70…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design
Direct linkCukurbasi, Baris; Kiyici, Mubin – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
This literature review aimed to examine the status, trends and tendencies in publications about virtual classrooms, instructional design in the virtual classroom and instructional effectiveness in the virtual classroom, as indexed in the ERIC database. For this review, we examined 2680 publications indexed in ERIC between 1994 and 2018. We…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Instructional Effectiveness, Web Based Instruction, Distance Education
Basiel, Anthony; Howarth, Mike – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2020
The paper is a sequence of methods to inform competent online video conferencing (webinar) teaching resources for universities rushing to meet learning effective provision in the current COVID crisis. The authors consider Moore's Theory of Transactional Distance (1970), with the focus of the theory on developing autonomy in the learner, may still…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Web Based Instruction, Videoconferencing
Holmes, Wayne; Nguyen, Quan; Zhang, Jingjing; Mavrikis, Manolis; Rienties, Bart – Distance Education, 2019
There has been a growing interest in how teaching might be informed by "learning design" (LD), with a promising method for investigating LD being offered by the emerging field of "learning analytics" (LA). In this study, we used a novel LA for LD methodology to investigate the implementation of LD in an online distance learning…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Instructional Design, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
Boast, Lyria; Clifford, Beth; Doyle, Daniela – Public Impact, 2020
Almost immediately after schools closed due to the coronavirus outbreak in spring 2020, we began to see anecdotal evidence that charter schools were reacting quickly and serving students well. This paper offers evidence that smaller networks and schools that represent over 65% of the charter school landscape were able to respond quickly and take…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics
Sadeghi, Karim, Ed.; Thomas, Michael, Ed. – Digital Education and Learning, 2023
This edited book brings together documented evidence and theoretical propositions on the essential mediating role of digital technology in L2 teacher education and professional development. Topics range from technological affordances in teacher education, to challenges and responses to emergency transition from face to face to virtual professional…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Faculty Development
Wesley, Alexa; Parnell, Amelia; Askin, Jacalyn – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2020
Higher education is deploying a range of innovative strategies in response to rising costs and financial challenges. This report presents findings from a NASPA [National Association of Student Personnel Administrators] study on cost-saving initiatives at three institutions. Each institution aimed to creatively address different areas affecting…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cost Effectiveness, Professional Associations, Student Personnel Workers
Adelstein, David; Barbour, Michael K. – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2016
Designers have a limited selection of K-12 online course creation standards to choose from that are not blocked behind proprietary or pay walls. For numerous institutions and states, the use of the iNACOL "National Standards for Quality Online Courses" is becoming a widely used resource. This article presents the final phase in a…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Online Courses, National Standards, Elementary Secondary Education
Milheim, Karen L., Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
Higher education programs are continuously expanding globally and now, students who are enrolled in online courses can reside anywhere in the world. Due to this phenomenon, institutions are forced to adapt to serve their remote students. "Cultivating Diverse Online Classrooms Through Effective Instructional Design" provides emerging…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Instructional Design, Student Diversity
Berrett, Dan – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Growing pressure to provide more virtual instruction is spurring efforts to design large courses that balance standardization of content with flexibility for instructors. Each course uses a common template, which sets out lesson objectives, lecture material, practice activities, and assessments. The process results in a single version of each…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Distance Education, Online Courses, Virtual Classrooms
Ahn, June; Asbell-Clarke, Jodi; Berland, Matthew; Chase, Catherine; Enyedy, Noel; Fusco, Judith; Gardner, Shari; Grover, Shuchi; Halverson, Erica; Jona, Kemi; Lane, H. Chad; Martin, Wendy; Mercier, Emma; Moher, Tom; Ogan, Amy; Pinkard, Nichole; Polman, Joseph; Roschelle, Jeremy; Schank, Patricia; Taylor, Katie Headrick; Wilkerson, Michelle; Worsley, Marcelo – Grantee Submission, 2017
Cyberlearning researchers envision and investigate the future of learning with technology. As of summer 2017, the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (CFTL) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) had made 279 research grant awards. In addition, several hundred other NSF research projects have cyberlearning themes. Many of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Science Course Improvement Projects, Instructional Design, Research Projects
Artyushina, Galina; Sheypak, Olga – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
Teachers, educational managers and learners must realize that new opportunities are offered by modern on-line communication. A person with basic Internet and Web skills is open to a new world of knowledge, from free Web surfing and self-organized education--through on-line resources and familiarization with Internet culture, its places, sites,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Distance Education, Web Based Instruction
Lentell, Helen – Open Learning, 2012
The wider context (political and economic) for developing sustainable distance learning in UK universities is encouraging and new learning technologies promise much improved products and services. But conventional campus-based universities struggle to build and/or expand sustainable distance learning provision. This article identifies the core…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Universities, Instruction
Arinto, Patricia B. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Many open universities and distance education institutions have shifted from a predominantly print-based mode of delivery to an online mode characterised by the use of virtual learning environments and various web technologies. This paper describes the impact of the shift to open and distance e-learning (ODeL), as this trend might be called, on…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Open Universities, Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning
Kidd, Terry, Ed.; Morris, Lonnie R., Jr., Ed. – IGI Global, 2017
Incorporating new methods and approaches in learning environments is imperative to the development of education systems. By enhancing learning processes, education becomes more attainable at all levels. "The Handbook of Research on Instructional Systems and Educational Technology" is an essential reference source for the latest scholarly…
Descriptors: Guides, Educational Technology, Instructional Systems, Research
