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O'Connor, Cliodhna – Psychology Teaching Review, 2022
Restrictions on in-person teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic severely challenged higher education practices worldwide. While didactic delivery of course content is easily achievable with virtual teaching technologies, promoting critical engagement with this material can be more difficult, particularly with classes of larger size and lower…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
Supervisors' Experience of Resistance during Online Group Supervision: A Phenomenological Case Study
Morton, James R., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Leaders in higher education institutions throughout the United States regard distance learning as an important part of their long-term strategic planning (Allen & Seaman, 2015). Counselor education and supervision training programs are following this trend as demonstrated by the increase of online programs being offered to train professional…
Descriptors: Counselor Educators, Counselor Training, Supervisors, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Price, Emma; Coffey, Brian; Nethery, Amy – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
This article documents the experiences of three early career academics trying to establish a network of early career academics (ECAs) in a middle-ranked university in Australia. The changing context of academia means that ECAs face considerable challenges in understanding and negotiating effective career paths. Some of the issues encountered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development
Ghadirian, Hajar; Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd; Bakar, Kamariah Binti Abu; Hassanzadeh, Maryam – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This study presents a case study of asynchronous online discussions' (AOD) growth patterns in an undergraduate blended course to address the gap in our current understanding of how threads are developed in peer-moderated AODs. Building on a taxonomy of thread pattern proposed by Chan, Hew and Cheung (2009), growth patterns of thirty-six forums…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Blended Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
Dell, Cindy Ann; Dell, Thomas F.; Blackwell, Terry L. – Journal of Educators Online, 2015
Inclusion of the universal design for learning (UDL) model as a guiding set of principles for online curriculum development in higher education is discussed. Fundamentally, UDL provides the student with multiple means of accessing the course based on three overarching principles: presentation; action and expression; and engagement and interaction.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Online Courses, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
Angelo, Raymond – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Approximately half of the information systems (IS) projects implemented each year are considered failures. These failed projects cost billions of dollars annually. Failures can be due to projects being delivered late, over-budget, abandoned after significant time and resource investment, or failing to achieve desired results. More often than not,…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication, Business, Discussion Groups
Timmis, Sue; Joubert, Marie; Manuel, Anne; Barnes, Sally – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
This article explores the use of multiple digital tools for mediating communications, drawing on two recent empirical studies in which students and researchers in UK higher education worked on collaborative activities: how different tools were used and the quality of the communications and their contributions to collaborative working and knowledge…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Communications, Researchers, Foreign Countries
Meyer, Katrina A. – Innovative Higher Education, 2010
Given the explosive growth of online communications, new forms of discourse are an intriguing topic of study. This research focused on ten online discussions hosted by "The Chronicle of Higher Education," using content and discourse analysis of the postings to answer several questions. What is the "conversational scaffolding" used by posters in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Discussion, Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication
Verdoodt, Ive; Rutten, Kris; Soetaert, Ronald; Mottart, Andre – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2010
This study discusses the representation of (the) literacy (myth) in popular movies and a teaching and research project on cinematic literacy narratives. It attempts to reveal the existence of a powerful 'Pygmalion template' in contemporary movie culture. Focusing on a discourse or culture clash 'Pygmalion movies' simultaneously contribute to the…
Descriptors: Mythology, Discussion Groups, Primary Sources, Personal Narratives
Chang, Ching-Wen; Pearman, Cathy; Farha, Nicholas – Critical Questions in Education, 2012
Language laboratories, developed in the 1970s under the influence of the Audiolingual Method, were superseded several decades later by computer-assisted language learning (CALL) work stations (Gündüz, 2005). The World Wide Web was developed shortly thereafter. From this introduction and the well-documented and staggering growth of the Internet and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Internet, Web 2.0 Technologies, Language Laboratories
Cox, Thomas D. – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2011
It can reasonably be said that the discussion board is the "heart" of an online course. The discussion board can and should help the learner to make meaning of the content or topic and to find relevance to their lives. When this "engagement" does not occur, the individual does not benefit from the discussion, and it becomes…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Group Discussion, Interaction, Online Courses
Moisey, Susan Darlene; Neu, Candace; Cleveland-Innes, Martha – Journal of Distance Education, 2008
This study examined the relationship between community cohesion and computer-mediated conferencing (CMC), as well as other variables potentially associated with the development of a learning community. Within the context of a graduate-level course in instructional design (a core course in the Masters of Distance Education program at Athabasca…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Core Curriculum, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education
Goncalves, Fernando J., Ed.; Pereira, Ruth, Ed.; Leal Filho, Walter, Ed.; Miranda Azeiteiro, Ulisses, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
This book presents essential learning approaches. It introduces educational and training activities, as well as various innovative methods aiming at the development of practical skills, in order to strengthen the continuous process of environmental education, and in particular the education for sustainable development (ESD). In doing so, it…
Descriptors: Field Instruction, Animals, Higher Education, Science Education
Doherty, Catherine – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2008
This paper explores cultural production in online internationalised education. The analysis samples interactions in a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) unit offered online by an Australian university to a student group including enrolments through a Malaysian institution. Part of the curricular content was a consideration of how different…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education
IGI Global, 2018
The rapid growth in online and virtual learning opportunities has created culturally diverse classes and corporate training sessions. Instruction for these learning opportunities must adjust to meet participant needs. "Online Course Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications" is a comprehensive reference source for the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Educational Trends