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Moses K. Asamoah; Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi; Michael Tagoe – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2024
Despite huge investments in Ghanaian universities for e-learning education, there exist lecturers who struggle with the adoption and use of open-source Learning Management Systems (LMSs) in teaching. The purpose of this study was to investigate the dominant drivers of the adoption and usage of LMS by faculty to enhance e-learning education in…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Adoption (Ideas), Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Rapp, Christian; Gülbahar, Yasemin; Adnan, Muge – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
The situation in Ukraine poses severe problems to the higher education system and to students in Eastern Ukraine. Many students and academicians had been compelled to leave their university buildings and move westwards. Hence, they are forced to substitute face-to-face teaching with distance learning, often on a large scale, but within a short…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Educational Resources, Faculty Development, Online Courses
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Cavanaugh, Cathy; Hargis, Jace; Mayberry, John – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This paper describes a study of success factors in the introductory semester of liberal studies blended courses offered at the bachelor of science level. The influence of student participation in the online course environment was examined, as measured by the number of times students logged into the learning management system (LMS) and average…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Blended Learning, Academic Achievement, Student Participation
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Cavanaugh, Cathy; Mayberry, John; Hargis, Jace – International Journal on E-Learning, 2016
This paper describes an observational study of the introduction of Sakai's Learning Management System (LMS) into several liberal arts courses at a women's college in the Middle East. Student participation in the CLE was tracked over the course of the semester and summarized by their number of logins and average session length. These measures were…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Blended Learning, Academic Achievement, Student Participation
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Mazoue, James G. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2012
Four converging trends are undermining land-based campuses as the preeminent source of knowledge acquisition and certification. The emergence of the learning sciences, the wikification of knowledge, the unbundling of faculty roles, and the migration of learning online are driving fundamental institutional change toward location-independent…
Descriptors: Credentials, Higher Education, Web Based Instruction, Organizational Change
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Nikoi, Samuel; Armellini, Alejandro – Distance Education, 2012
Success in open educational resources (OER) has been reported by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA and the Open University in the UK, among others. It is unclear, however, how valuable OER are in learning and teaching. Approaches to OER policy and sustainability are just two other key aspects that remain unresolved across the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Open Universities, Educational Resources
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Lambropoulos, Niki; Faulkner, Xristine; Culwin, Fintan – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
In the last decade, we have seen the emergence of virtual learning environments. Initially, these environments were a little more than document repositories that tutor used unicast to the students. Informed in part by social constructivist theories of education, later environments included capabilities for tutor-student and student-student,…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Peer Relationship, Teacher Role, Social Environment
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Buus, Lillian – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
At Aalborg University (AAU) we are known to work with problem-based learning (PBL) in a particular way designated "The Aalborg PBL model." In PBL the focus is on participant control, knowledge sharing, collaboration among participants, which makes it interesting to consider the integration of social media in the learning that takes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Problem Based Learning, Systems Development
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers