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Tomej, Kristof – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2022
In this paper, I present and discuss the findings of an intentional and systematic inquiry into the learning motivation of university master's students taking the same course in online and classroom-based formats during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through capturing the students' motivation using Keller's Instructional Materials Motivation Survey at two…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Electronic Learning, In Person Learning, COVID-19
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Michael Lahey – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2024
The proliferation of digital software is an increasingly accepted part of everyday life in higher education in the United States. While this software affords some opportunities, it can create confusing experiences for students as well. In this paper, I ask how might increasingly complex digital ecosystems in higher education shape the contours of…
Descriptors: Information Management, Teacher Student Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Universities
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Gail Matthews-Denatale; Laurie Poklop; Rachel Plews; Mary English – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2024
In summer 2020, Northeastern University developed a fully online curricular pathway for incoming fall first-year undergraduate students who could not learn in residence. This pathway included 18 Global Challenge (GC) courses, each designed around project-based learning (PBL), grounded in a complex problem defined by Northeastern University…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development
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Adler-Kassner, Linda; Safronova, Margarita; Dominguez-Whitehead, Yasmine; Gonzalez, Karen; Nguyen, Stephanie; Phommasa, Malaphone – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2022
This study investigates how students experienced a sense of place and a sense of belonging in both in-person and virtual learning environments by analyzing student interview data. As educators and university students grapple with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we consider how students experience the presence and absence of sense of place and…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, COVID-19, Pandemics, In Person Learning
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Piotti, Anna; DeFelice, Elizabeth; Jackson, Carrie – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2022
Unfamiliarity and uncertainty can be disorienting, but when provided space to collectively navigate such challenges, opportunities arise for novel ways of engaging, collaborating, and navigating in our varied communities--including those in higher education. This article builds on previous students-as-partners (SaP) research by describing a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, College Faculty, Educational Cooperation
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Egan, John P. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2020
This article examines the experiences of students after completing an online postgraduate learning technologies applications course with respect to the transfer of learning of skills, knowledges, and perspectives to their professional educational practice. Transfer of learning was perceived to have occurred with respect to overall course design…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Transfer of Training, Graduate Students, Online Courses
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Chwen Jen Chen; Chee Siong Teh – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2022
This study chose an undergraduate course offered at a public university in Malaysia as the case to discover students' unseen online interaction behaviors and experiences in order to obtain insights into ways to devise relevant online pedagogical approaches. The study employed the learning management system's (LMS) analytics and the analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Public Colleges, Student Behavior
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McIntyre, Timothy; Wegener, Margaret; McGrath, Dominic – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2018
We have developed and demonstrated the effectiveness of a set of online interactive learning modules to accompany physics courses at first- and second-year university levels. Students access the modules prior to attending lectures to familiarize themselves with content which is then discussed and reaffirmed in class. Student surveys and access…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Units of Study, Lecture Method, Physics
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Joko Slamet; Yazid Basthomi; Francisca Maria Ivone; Evi Eliyanah – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2024
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have significantly advanced online education. Yet, MOOC instructors still grapple with the ongoing challenge of low learner engagement while striving to foster autonomous and self-directed learning (SDL). Integrating gamification into these courses could be a promising solution. However, the extent to which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Gamification, English for Academic Purposes
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Styles, Erin B.; Polvi, Elizabeth J. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2022
The last class session of the academic term represents an excellent opportunity to solicit meaningful feedback from students who have just completed the course. To capitalize on the students' first-hand knowledge of their own experiences with our course and maximize the impact of the last class for our Canadian graduate-level genetics course, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Course Evaluation
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Yeong, Foong May – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2021
To foster students' learning of critical-thinking skills, I previously introduced ill-structured problems to provide students opportunities to apply content knowledge and thinking skills. However, I noted that my third-year, life sciences students were not solving such problems effectively. Therefore, I used a grounded approach and conducted…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Discussion Groups, Biological Sciences, Problem Solving
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Cozart, Deanna L.; Horan, Erin M.; Frome, Gavin – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2021
As college costs have continued to rise, textbooks now average more than $1,200 per student per academic year as of 2020. Traditional textbooks are not only expensive, but also have fixed and frequently outdated content. In this study, we compared pre-service teacher-student outcomes and perceptions of a traditional textbook versus no-cost, online…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Open Educational Resources, Electronic Learning, Cost Effectiveness
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Potter, Tiffany; Englund, Letitia; Charbonneau, James; MacLean, Mark Thompson; Newell, Jonathan; Roll, Ido – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2017
Peer feedback is a useful strategy in teaching and learning, but its effectiveness particularly in introductory courses can be limited by the relative newness of students to both the body of knowledge upon which they are being asked to provide feedback and the skill set involved in providing good feedback. This paper applies a novel approach to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning, English Instruction