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Dechter, Avi – AACE Journal, 2009
Students who pursue a bachelor's degree in four-year colleges and universities often take longer than four years to complete their degrees. The reasons for prolonging the time to degree seem to fall into three broad categories: part-time enrollment, deficiencies in academic readiness, and inadequate course planning. This paper focuses on the…
Descriptors: Graduation Requirements, Programming, Time to Degree, Academic Advising
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Schroeder, Barbara – AACE Journal, 2009
With the increasing emphasis in higher education to provide opportunities for students to work and collaborate in groups, enhancing problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, instructors are looking beyond traditional course management tools to emerging technologies. One technology that supports group collaboration is a wiki. However, many…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Group Activities, Cooperation, Best Practices
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Hamza, Mohammad Khalid; Malluhi, Qutaibah; Alhalabi, Bassem A. – AACE Journal, 2004
The race is on to survive the competitive educational market which nearly everyone can now access with the click of a mouse. Many institutions are turning to DETs to tap into this market. The difficulty is evaluating the effectiveness of these tools and the education that is provided by them. Implementing a new DET is neither a simple matter nor a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Surveys, Higher Education
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Kalman, Howard K.; Ellis, Maureen L. – AACE Journal, 2007
Today, undergraduate students enter college with increasingly more sophisticated computer skills compared to their counterparts of 20 years ago. However, many instructors are still using traditional instructional strategies to teach this new generation. This research study discusses a number of strategies that were employed to teach a…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Computer Literacy, Teaching Methods
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Nixon, Mary Anne – AACE Journal, 2004
Professors in higher education are experimenting with a wide array of techniques in order to preserve integrity of the academic evaluation process in the online environment. Current instructors perceive some increased risk of "cheating" in cyberspace classrooms, and some changes in the forms these incidents take. We anticipate the continuing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cheating, Student Evaluation, Integrity