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Park, Ho-Ryong; Kim, Michelle Soonhyang; Mukherjee, Keya; Ates, Burcu – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2021
Due to advancements in technology and the demand for flexible instruction, online educational opportunities are increasing. However, instructors still need guidance to teach students effectively in different types of online courses. This article provides context- and delivery-specific guidelines for those teaching asynchronous, synchronous, and…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Guidelines, Teacher Effectiveness, Synchronous Communication
Liu, Yuliang – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2019
This paper reports an action research that aimed to examine how the author's weekly use of reflection and questioning instructional methods affected learners' learning in an online graduate class at a midwestern public university in the USA. The author employed the asynchronous online discussion on the discussion board in Blackboard for learners…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Online Courses, Integrated Learning Systems, Reflection
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Mitchell, Elissa Thomann – Online Learning, 2019
This paper presents the use of a debate in an online asynchronous social policy course. Debate is frequently used as an instructional strategy in higher education, but little is known about the use of this tool in an online learning environment. Participants (N = 36) completed an online debate assignment, and both qualitative (reflection papers)…
Descriptors: Debate, Persuasive Discourse, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication
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Geri, Nitza – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2012
Teaching and instructing is one of the challenging manifestations of informing, within which distance learning is considered harder than face-to-face instruction. Student retention is one of the major challenges of distance learning. Current innovative technologies enable widespread use of video lectures that may ease the loneliness of the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Educational Technology, Academic Persistence, Distance Education
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Pulford, Briony D. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The influence of asynchronous discussion in a virtual learning environment, Blackboard, on subsequent coursework grades was examined with 166 psychology students to determine whether asking questions of the tutor online, and/or reading the questions and the given advice, influenced the grades on the report they were writing. A repeated-measures…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Assignments, Psychology, Computer Mediated Communication
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Little, Craig B.; Titarenko, Larissa; Bergelson, Mira – Teaching Sociology, 2005
As the global economy becomes more integrated, incorporating international experiences into college curricula becomes increasingly desirable for American students and their counterparts abroad. This paper describes one model for creating an international, Web-based, distance-learning classroom that can be used as a guide for those who might wish…
Descriptors: International Education, Social Control, Global Approach, Foreign Countries