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Twyman, Janet S. – Center on Innovations in Learning, Temple University, 2014
This issue brief is the first in a series produced by the Center on Innovations in Learning's League of Innovators. The series will describe, discuss, and analyze policies and practices that enable personalization in education. Topics should be of particular interest to state education agencies and district and school personnel. This first issue…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Individualized Instruction, Learner Controlled Instruction, Student Centered Curriculum
Dutta, Pratima – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The Personalized Integrated Educational System (PIES) design theory is a design recommendation regarding the function and features of Learning Managements Systems (LMS) that can support the information-age learner-centered paradigm of education. The purpose of this study was to improve the proposed functions and features of the PIES design theory…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Models, Transcripts (Written Records), Observation
Lewis, S.; Whiteside, A.; Garrett Dikkers, A. – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2014
In this three-year, mixed methods case study, the benefits and challenges of online learning for at-risk high school students were examined. A key finding was that at-risk students identify the benefits and challenges of online learning to be the same. While students appreciate the opportunity to work ahead and study at their own pace, they see it…
Descriptors: High School Students, At Risk Students, Electronic Learning, Educational Benefits
Reigeluth, Charles M.; Aslan, Sinem; Chen, Zengguan; Dutta, Pratima; Huh, Yeol; Lee, Dabae; Lin, Chun-Yi; Lu, Ya-Huei; Min, Mina; Tan, Verily; Watson, Sunnie Lee; Watson, William R. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2015
The learner-centered paradigm of instruction differs in such fundamental ways from the teacher-centered paradigm that it requires technology to serve very different functions. In 2006, a research team at Indiana University began to work on identifying those functions and published their results in 2008. Subsequently, the team elaborated and…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Learner Controlled Instruction, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Interdisciplinary Approach
Steiner, Christina M.; Nussbaumer, Alexander; Albert, Dietrich – Policy Futures in Education, 2009
This article presents two current research trends in e-learning that at first sight appear to compete. Competence-Based Knowledge Space Theory (CBKST) provides a knowledge representation framework which, since its invention by Doignon & Falmagne, has been successfully applied in various e-learning systems (for example, Adaptive Learning with…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Learning Processes, Learning Experience
Stiller, Klaus D.; Freitag, Annika; Zinnbauer, Peter; Freitag, Christian – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
"Present text accompanying pictures aurally to promote learning" is a well established principle of instructional design. But recently, it was shown that under certain conditions visual texts can be preferable. Instructional pacing seems to be one of these conditions that mediate effects. Especially, enabling learners to pace an…
Descriptors: Pacing, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Modalities, Visual Aids
Murphy, Elizabeth; Rodriguez-Manzanares, Maria A. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
This paper reports on a study that examined teachers' perspectives on learner centredness in a distance learning context. Data collection relied on semi-structured interviews conducted with 42 Canadian high school teachers. Teachers' perspectives were analysed then categorized according to the four dimensions of a research validated framework of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Student Interests, Interviews
Project Tomorrow, 2012
For the past nine years, the Speak Up National Research Project has endeavored to stimulate new discussions around how technology tools and services can transform education and to provide a context to help educators, parents, and policy and business leaders think beyond today and envision tomorrow. In last year's report, "The New 3E's of…
Descriptors: Internet, Stakeholders, Learner Controlled Instruction, Computer Use
McLoughlin, Catherine; Lee, Mark J. W. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Research findings in recent years provide compelling evidence of the importance of encouraging student control over the learning process as a whole. The socially based tools and technologies of the Web 2.0 movement are capable of supporting informal conversation, reflexive dialogue and collaborative content generation, enabling access to a wide…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Internet, Learner Controlled Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Underwood, Jean; Banyard, Phil – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2008
The opening premise of this paper is that education must change but that the nature and direction of that change is uncertain. In England, but not necessarily the UK as a whole, the policy is to produce a more personalised learning experience for all pupils. The policy of personalisation is to be delivered in part by increased use of digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Tzouveli, Paraskevi; Mylonas, Phivos; Kollias, Stefanos – Computers & Education, 2008
Taking advantage of the continuously improving, web-based learning systems plays an important role for self-learning, especially in the case of working people. Nevertheless, learning systems do not generally adapt to learners' profiles. Learners have to spend a lot of time before reaching the learning goal that is compatible with their knowledge…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Distance Education, Knowledge Level, Questionnaires
Saba, Farhad, Ed. – Distance Education Report, 1999
The third in a series defining the field of distance education and its related concepts, this article focuses on flexible education, a term closely associated with open education. Discussion includes flexibility, autonomy and learner control; individualizing instruction; and management of instruction and instructional management software. (AEF)
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Individualized Instruction, Learner Controlled Instruction
Project Tomorrow, 2011
For the past eight years, the Speak Up National Research Project has endeavored to stimulate new discussions around these kinds of questions and to provide a context to help education, parent, policy and business leaders think beyond today and envision tomorrow. This report is the first in a two part series to document the key national findings…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Blended Learning, Educational Policy
Buraphadeja, Vasa; Kumnuanta, Jirang – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
In its second decade of education reform and its third cycle of national ICT master plans, Thailand struggles to transform its aspirations into practice. This paper chronicles three decades of Thailand's ICT national plans and their relation to education reform. It also discusses the effect of global trends, Asian cultures, and Thai cultures on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Asian Culture
Saba, Farhad, Ed. – Distance Education Report, 2000
Suggests that distance education advocates and critics alike should learn that responding to learners' needs for independent learning is a fundamental principle. Discusses learner autonomy; new admirers of distance education; lack of sensitivity to individual learning differences and the increased use of streaming media; and the position of Dr.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Educational Media, Educational Practices