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Stapleton, Sarah Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the way of life for people and businesses around the world. Institutions of higher education and their constituents are no exception. As the pandemic began, colleges and universities moved their operations and teaching modalities online. The emergency shift to remote learning and operating has put a…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, School Closing
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Fendler, Richard J. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2021
Much of the online education literature stresses the importance of teacher presence. The most common techniques used by online teachers to achieve presence are frequently posting written announcements, providing clear written instructions on assignments, offering students meaningful written feedback, and timely responding to emails. However, if…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Leeman, M. Blanche; Kupczynski, Lori; Aguilar, Sunddip; Groff, Shannon L. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
The profession of Occupational Therapy has over a 100-year history embracing technology. The relationship of technology and occupational therapy remains prevalent as a foundational skill taught in the occupational therapy curriculum. To stay current with emerging technology, a course written for master level occupational therapy students included…
Descriptors: Validity, Online Courses, Occupational Therapy, Student Attitudes
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Deng, Yang; Wang, Houxiong – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2017
Attending to practice has become a significant topic in science education today. As scientific argumentation is a typical form of scientific practice as well as an important educational practice, more and more attention has been paid to it by science education researchers. Evaluating students' competence in scientific argumentation is one of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods
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Wilke, Dina J.; King, Erin; Ashmore, Margaret; Stanley, Craig – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
This study compared the development of clinical assessment and intervention skills between students enrolled in a face-to-face (F2F) or an asynchronous online clinical social work class. All students from three semesters of F2F (n = 74) and online (n = 78) sections of an MSW clinical class taught by the same instructor were included. Two…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Online Courses, Role Playing
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Chan, Jackie W. W.; Tam, Vicky C.; Li, Sandy S.; Pow, Jacky – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2016
This paper describes the development of a coding guide that was used to evaluate the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in student assignments. Instrument design and pilot-testing was conducted in a Hong Kong Chinese primary government-subsidised school (I-School) with a school-based e-learning project. The design of the…
Descriptors: Coding, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Assignments
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Sahlin, Johannes S.; Tsertsidis, Antony; Islam, M. Sirajul – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
During recent years, many schools have started to implement information and communication technologies (ICTs)-based learning devices (such as laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and active boards) in the classroom settings in order to increase learning outcomes. The aim of this study is to find which activities and outcomes are evident in the usages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Brodahl, Cornelia; Hansen, Nils Kristian – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2014
Google Docs and EtherPad are Web 2.0 tools providing opportunity for multiple users to work online on the same document consecutively or simultaneously. Over the last few years a number of research papers on the use of these collaborative tools in a teaching and learning environment have been published. This work builds on that of Brodahl,…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Collaborative Writing, Web 2.0 Technologies, Technology Uses in Education
Zelizer, Deborah A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group study compared the impact of Ennis's (1989) mixed instructional methodology to the immersion methodology on the development of critical thinking in a multicultural, undergraduate senior-year learning community. A convenience sample of students (n =171) were selected from four sections of a…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, College Seniors, Communities of Practice
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Quitadamo, Ian J.; Kurtz, Martha J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2007
Increasingly, national stakeholders express concern that U.S. college graduates cannot adequately solve problems and think critically. As a set of cognitive abilities, critical thinking skills provide students with tangible academic, personal, and professional benefits that may ultimately address these concerns. As an instructional method, writing…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Science Laboratories, Biology, Critical Thinking