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U-Pace: Facilitating Academic Success for All Students
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Reddy, Diane M.; Fleming, Raymond; Pedrick, Laura E.; Ports, Katie A.; Barnack-Tavlaris, Jessica L.; Helion, Alicia M.; Swain, Rodney A. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2011
Because the transition to a knowledge-based economy requires an educated workforce, colleges and universities have made retention of students--particularly those who are academically underprepared--an institutional priority. College completion leads to economic and social advancement for students and is also critical to the nation's economic and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Online Courses
Two Essays on Increasing the Learning Effectiveness of Economics Education
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McLean, William J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Scope and Method of Study: This study develops, implements, and evaluates a new economics teaching pedagogy based on the U.S. Army's systems approach to training model. Using the approach, tasks are identified that compose the task domain for the Principles of Microeconomics course. From the 130 identified tasks, 73 are used by Economics of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Economics Education, Banking, Microeconomics
Design and Evaluation of Two Blended Learning Approaches: Lessons Learned
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Cheung, Wing Sum; Hew, Khe Foon – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
In this paper, we share two blended learning approaches used at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. We have been using these two approaches in the last twelve years in many courses ranging from the diploma to graduate programs. For the first blended learning approach, we integrated one asynchronous communication tool with face to…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
The Effect of Sequence Control on Computer Assisted Learning.
Gray, Susan H. – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1987
Reviews study of 80 undergraduate sociology students which compared the effects of two types of sequencing in computer assisted instruction: (1) linear, or fixed, and (2) flip, or branching. Results indicate that students in the flip sequence condition performed better on comprehension measures but not on retention measures. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Branching, Comprehension, Computer Assisted Instruction, Correlation
Instructional Analogies and the Learning of Tangible and Intangible Concepts.
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Newby, Timothy J.; Stepich, Donald A. – 1991
The effect of instructional analogy training on the level of immediate, as well as 14-day delay, comprehension of tangible and intangible physiological concepts was investigated. Ninety-four college-aged subjects were given training either with or without instructional analogies over five tangible and five intangible advanced physiological…
Descriptors: Analogy, Analysis of Variance, Comprehension, Concept Formation
Some Advantages and Disadvantages of Narrow-Cast Instructional Television: One Instructor's Experience [and] The Effects of Individual and Team Learning on Performance during Computer-Assisted Instruction.
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Dalton, David W. – 1987
The first of two papers describes the author's experiences teaching a narrow-cast instructional development course at Indiana University. Among the disadvantages of the experience were the logistics of coordinating the instructional activities between two campuses, additional preparation time requirements, diminished student-teacher interactions,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Television, Group Activities