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Shannon Chapman Fredrick – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2024
Undergraduate students often indicate they prefer a flexible course schedule and pace when completing asynchronous online courses, often in an effort to balance their academic commitments with their personal and professional obligations. While students must focus on their time management skills when taking an online course, faculty often have…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Success, Electronic Learning, Asynchronous Communication
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Goode, Elizabeth; Nieuwoudt, Johanna Elizabeth; Roche, Thomas – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
One Australian public university is radically changing the way it delivers higher education, introducing a 6-week immersive scheduling delivery model across all units and courses. Despite the emerging success of block and immersive models for raising the performance of diverse student cohorts, the design factors underpinning positive outcomes are…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Learning Modules, Synchronous Communication
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Safsouf, Yassine; Mansouri, Khalifa; Poirier, Franck – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2020
Aim/Purpose: This study focuses on the learners' success toward learning management systems in higher education in Morocco and also proposes a theoretical model to better understand the determinants of learners' satisfaction, self-regulation and continuance intention to use these systems. For this purpose, variables which may have a positive or…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Metacognition, Student Attitudes, College Students
Hansen, Benjamin; Sabia, Joseph J.; Schaller, Jessamyn – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
This study explores the effect of school reopenings during the COVID-19 pandemic on married women's labor supply. We proxy for in-person attendance at US K-12 schools using smartphone data from Safegraph and measure female employment, hours, and remote work using the Current Population Survey. Difference-in-differences estimates show that K-12…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Marriage, Labor
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Stone, Cathy; Freeman, Elizabeth; Dyment, Janet; Muir, Tracey; Milthorpe, Naomi – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2019
Online study is generally associated with the terms "flexible" and "flexibility." Many students choose to study online specifically for the flexibility that is offered, hoping they can combine their studies with multiple other responsibilities in their lives. For students living in regional and rural areas, such flexibility can…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Flexible Scheduling, Equal Education, Educational Experience
Williams, Laura M. – 1999
This study investigated the effects of block scheduling on student learning. It compared the grade-point averages (GPAs) of one group of students during their 9th-grade year while under the traditional 7-period day to the GPAs of their 10th-grade year under the 4-by-4 block schedule. The text offers a history of block scheduling and lists some of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Block Scheduling, Correlation, Flexible Scheduling