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Ahmed Hassan Rakha; Mahmoud Abdo Khalifa – SAGE Open, 2024
COVID-19 has led to quarantines, isolations, and social separations worldwide. Universities use distance education and blended learning especially for practical courses. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of blended learning via Edmodo on students' performance and attitude when learning some fundamental boxing skills.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Blended Learning, Educational Technology
Warner, Robert P.; Ricks, Meagan; Schmalz, Dorothy L. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2022
Online courses have become common in leisure studies and recreation education university programs, yet little is known about online instruction in this field, especially in courses about human diversity. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is (1) to discuss literature relevant to online courses about human diversity broadly, and in a leisure…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Leisure Time, Recreational Activities, Diversity
Venter, Peet; van Rensburg, Mari Jansen; Davis, Annemarie – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
The study on which this article reports examined the determinants of usage of an online learning management system (LMS) by fourth level business students at a South African open and distance learning university using an extension of the widely used technology acceptance model (TAM) as a theoretical basis. A survey was conducted among students at…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Summer Schools, Management Systems, Distance Education
Lust, Griet; Vandewaetere, Mieke; Elen, Jan; Clarebout, Geraldine – Learning Environments Research, 2014
Given the rising popularity of content management systems (CMSs) in higher education, we investigated how students use the available CMS tools, as well as whether the moment of using a CMS tool affects students' learning. This temporal dimension has been neglected in current research on CMS use. More insight into students' tool-use is…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Higher Education, College Students, Academic Achievement
Lust, Griet; Vandewaetere, Mieke; Ceulemans, Eva; Elen, Jan; Clarebout, Geraldine – Computers & Education, 2011
The popularity of today's blended courses in higher education is driven by the assumption that students are provided with a rich toolset that supports them in their learning process. However, little is known on how students actually use these tools and how this affects their performance for the course. The current study investigates how students…
Descriptors: Evidence, Management Systems, Program Effectiveness, Multivariate Analysis
Reddy, Diane M.; Pfeiffer, Heidi M.; Fleming, Raymond; Ports, Katie A.; Pedrick, Laura E.; Barnack-Tavlaris, Jessica L.; Jirovec, Danielle L.; Helion, Alicia M.; Swain, Rodney A. – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2013
"U-Pace," an instructional intervention, has potential for widespread implementation because student behavior recorded in any learning management system is used by "U-Pace" instructors to tailor coaching of student learning based on students' strengths and motivations. "U-Pace" utilizes an online learning environment…
Descriptors: Intervention, Teaching Methods, Student Behavior, Management Systems
See, Andrew; Teetor, Travis Stephen – Journal of Access Services, 2014
In the summer of 2012, the University of Arizona Libraries implemented an online training program to effectively train Access Services staff and student employees at a large academic research library. This article discusses the program, which was built using a course management system (D2L) and various e-Learning software applications (Articulate…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Training Methods, Library Personnel, Courseware
Bouse, Jim – College and University, 2016
Relationships are key to the success of everything higher education hopes to accomplish, from recruiting the next class to retaining them, guiding them to graduation, creating successful alumni, and fostering satisfied donors. Creation of those relationships can be engaged and facilitated by the technology, communications tools, and ideas…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, Strategic Planning, Public Relations, Mass Media Use
Chaston, Ian – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of second tier UK universities in relation to the effectiveness of their knowledge management systems and involvement in open innovation. Data were acquired using a mail survey of academic staff in social science and business faculties in second tier institutions. The results indicate that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness, Business Administration Education
Hoenack, Stephen A. – NASPA, 1975
Describes, for the student affairs officer, the importance of evaluating the context within which university-related decisions are made before choosing any proposed management techniques. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Management Systems

Gordon, Gus; Charles, Maria – Planning for Higher Education, 1998
The activity-based costing (ABC) method of analyzing institutional costs in higher education involves four procedures: determining the various discrete activities of the organization; calculating the cost of each; determining the cost drivers; tracing cost to the cost objective or consumer of each activity. Few American institutions have used the…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Costs, Foreign Countries
Sohail, M. Sadiq; Daud, Salina; Rajadurai, Jegatheesan – International Journal of Educational Management, 2006
Purpose: The competitive environment facing all organizations has forced many of them to choose strategies that enhance organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Re-engineering is one of the tools used in administering productivity improvements, cost control and asset management. Design/methodology/approach: This paper examines the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Productivity, Higher Education, Management Systems

Taylor, W. A. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1990
Examined is the possibility of applying industrial principles of quality assurance to engineering education. Describes an industrial quality assurance model emphasizing the assessment criteria of the quality of performance and capability. (YP)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Science, Educational Quality, Engineering Education
Xue, Zhiming – Business Officer, 1998
A National Association of College and University Business Officers survey of 153 institutions revealed the ways in which beginning, somewhat experienced, and experienced users of continuous quality improvement (CQI) management principles have implemented them. The three categories of implementers are profiled, and best practices are identified.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Higher Education, Leadership
Atkins, Nigel; May, Steve; Marks-Maran, Di – Journal of Further & Higher Education, 2005
MathsAid was established in 2001 as a university-wide resource for students enrolled on programmes at Kingston University that contain a mathematics or statistics component. Its broad aims are to provide a set of non-threatening remedial and motivational opportunities in maths and statistics through one-to-one tutorial support, peer-assisted…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Educational Technology, Information Technology, Higher Education