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Mendieta-Aragón, Adrián; Arguedas-Sanz, Raquel; Ruiz-Gómez, Luis Manuel; Navío-Marco, Julio – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Peer learning is not fully developed or researched in online and hybrid higher education. This research analyses a peer learning experience in the asynchronous part of hybrid teaching, in one of the largest blended universities in Europe, promoting students to act as teachers of their peers, by preparing digital content (videos) for the course.…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Blended Learning, Virtual Universities, Web Based Instruction
Burke, Katie – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Many universities in Australia and internationally now offer education degrees entirely online, without any requirement for face-to-face learning on university campuses. The transition to online learning has occurred rapidly, and has had particularly strong uptake in Initial Teacher Education. This paper examines the perspectives and experiences…
Descriptors: Art Education, Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
Shabbir, Shahzad; Ayub, Muhammad Adnan; Khan, Farman Ali; Davis, Jeffrey – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2021
Purpose: Short-term motivation encompasses specific, challenging and attainable goals that develop in the limited timespan. On the other hand, long-term motivation indicates a sort of continuing commitment that is required to complete assigned task. As short-term motivational problems span for a limited period of time, such as a session,…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Electronic Learning, Time Factors (Learning), Learning Processes
Rafique, Wajid; Dou, Wanchun; Hussain, Khalid; Ahmed, Khurshid – Online Learning, 2020
Modern internet technologies have revolutionized traditional education by providing flexible and resourceful e-learning opportunities in all fields of life. Programming is an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum in computer sciences where an adequate level of programming expertise is expected from the graduates. In this paper, we explore…
Descriptors: Programming, Expertise, Web Based Instruction, Electronic Learning
Badia, Antoni; Garcia, Consuelo; Meneses, Julio – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
In recent years there has been widespread interest in the implementation of online courses in universities. While most studies about online learning environments primarily focus on technology-related issues or instructional methods, little attention has been given to online teachers and their teaching approaches. The aim of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Virtual Universities, Open Universities
Villar-Onrubia, Daniel; Rajpal, Brinder – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2016
Virtual mobility initiatives are one of the most flexible, versatile and inclusive approaches in the provision of international experience opportunities. Given that in most universities only a small fraction of students can benefit from forms of academic mobility that involve travelling abroad, Internet-based intercultural interactions prove to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Universities, Distance Education, Global Approach
Reedy, Alison; Boitshwarelo, Bopelo; Barnes, Joshua; Billany, Trevor – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2015
Professional development for teacher educators is critical in a rapidly changing environment where graduate teachers are expected to have 21st Century skills and knowledge. As made explicit in a recent report on teacher education in Australia, "the evidence is clear: enhancing the capability of teachers is vital to raising the overall quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Educational Change, Virtual Universities
Castaño-Muñoz, Jonatan; Carnoy, Martin; Duart, Josep M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
There is surprisingly little analysis of the employment and earnings impact on students of taking and completing Internet-based programs and of how it compares with earnings outcomes for graduates of face-to-face universities. This paper analyzes a follow-up survey of students who began attending the virtual Internet-based Open University of…
Descriptors: Virtual Universities, Case Studies, Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries
Fominykh, Mikhail; Prasolova-Forland, Ekaterina; Morozov, Mikhail; Gerasimov, Alexey – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2011
This paper is focused on virtual campuses, i.e. virtual worlds representing real educational institutions that are based on the metaphor of a university and provide users with different learning tools. More specifically, the idea of integrating a virtual campus into the context of a virtual city is suggested. Such a virtual city, where students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Educational Technology, College Students
Klingsieck, Katrin B.; Fries, Stefan; Horz, Claudia; Hofer, Manfred – Distance Education, 2012
Procrastination, putting off until tomorrow what should have been done today, is a self-regulation failure that is widespread among students. Although plenty of research has emerged regarding academic procrastination, hardly any research endeavor regarding procrastination in distance university settings exists. This lack of research is even more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Distance Education, Life Satisfaction
Asoodar, Maryam; Atai, Mahmood Reza; Vaezi, Shahin – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
This article reports a mixed-method research probing the effect of utilizing a blog-buddy system on English for academic purposes learners' writing performance. Sixty Iranian undergraduate engineering students at Iran University of Science and Technology Virtual Campus participated in this study. Our analysis of the students' writings indicated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Journals, Electronic Journals, Web Sites
Morgan, Tannis; Bullen, Mark – Journal of Distance Education, 2011
This article provides an update of the Digital Learners in Higher Education Research project. In Phase 1 of the project, concluded that there is no empirically-sound basis for most of the claims that have been made about the net generation. It also found there are no meaningful differences between net generation and non-net generation students at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research Projects, Generational Differences
Edwards, Margaret; Perry, Beth; Janzen, Katherine – Distance Education, 2011
What does it take to be an effective online educator? Can those who teach successfully face-to-face be equally effective online? This article details a descriptive qualitative research study of students' perspectives regarding qualities of exceptional online educators. Participants described interactions they had with online teachers they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, College Graduates, Online Courses
Constantinescu, Dana; Stefansson, Gunnar – Online Submission, 2010
This paper describes some of the principles for building a freely available web-based university with open content. The "tutor-web" is an international project for web-assisted education, including such free and open access. This project was initiated by the University of Iceland in partnership with many universities around the world,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Computer Uses in Education, Online Courses
Joo, Young Ju; Lim, Kyu Yon; Kim, Eun Kyung – Computers & Education, 2011
Learners' satisfaction and persistence are considered critical success factors in online universities where all of the teaching and learning activities are carried out online. This study aims to investigate the structural relationships among perceived level of presence, perceived usefulness and ease of use of the online learning tools, learner…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Structural Equation Models