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Marrero, Meghan E.; Woodruff, Karen A.; Schuster, Glen S.; Riccio, Jessica Fitzsimons – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2010
Teachers are searching for new venues through which they may meet stringent professional development requirements. Under competitive funding from NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Office of Education and the NASA Explorer Schools Project, U.S. Satellite Laboratory, Inc. created a series of live, online, interactive…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Technology, Federal Programs, Communities of Practice
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Rao, Kavita; Giuli, Charles – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2010
Access to higher education in the U.S-affiliated Pacific Islands is limited. The island nations and territories in this Pacific region are geographically dispersed and separated by thousands of miles of ocean. Although local and regional colleges offer undergraduate degrees (associate's and bachelor's levels), islanders who seek graduate-level…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Distance Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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MacDonald, Colla J.; Thompson, Terrie Lynn – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2005
This paper addresses the need for quality e-Learning experiences. We used the Demand-Driven Learning Model (MacDonald, Stodel, Farres, Breithaupt, and Gabriel, 2001) to evaluate an online Masters in Education course. Multiple data collection methods were used to understand the experiences of stakeholders in this case study: the learners, design…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Distance Education, Online Courses, Learning Experience
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Jeong, Allan C. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2005
This study tested the effects of linguistic qualifiers and intensifiers on the number and types of replies elicited per argument and per challenge posted in online debates. To facilitate collaborative argumentation, thirty-two students (22 females, 10 males) enrolled in a graduate-level online course classified and labeled their messages as…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Females, Linguistics