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La Tonya Dyer; Liyan Song – Journal of Faculty Development, 2023
Faculty development activities offered within post-secondary educational institutions tend to focus on developing skills instead of directly addressing faculty conceptual views and beliefs that may affect their successful adoption of instruction within the online environment. This qualitative multi-case study bridges a gap in the current…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Online Courses, Colleges, Skill Development
McMaster, Kristen L.; Kendeou, Panayiota; Bresina, Britta Cook; Slater, Susan; Wagner, Kyle; White, Mary Jane; Butterfuss, Reese; Kim, Jasmine; Umana, Cristina – Grantee Submission, 2019
We describe the design and development of a technology-based inference-making intervention system that includes a set of interactive learning modules, each of which engages students to (a) view age-appropriate children's videos, (b) learn vocabulary words that are central to main ideas in each video, (c) respond to inferential questions, (d)…
Descriptors: Inferences, Computer Software, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Cesareni, Donatella; Cacciamani, Stefano; Fujita, Nobuko – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2016
Role taking is an established approach for promoting social cognition. Playing a specific role within a group could lead students to exercise collective cognitive responsibility for collaborative knowledge building. Two studies explored the relationship of role taking to participation in a blended university course. Students participated in the…
Descriptors: College Students, Blended Learning, Role Playing, Social Cognition
Robideau, Kari; Vogel, Eric – Journal of Extension, 2014
Volunteers are central to the delivery of 4-H programs, and providing quality, relevant training is key to volunteer success. Online, asynchronous modules are an enhancement to a training delivery menu for adult volunteers, providing consistent, accessible options traditionally delivered primarily face to face. This article describes how Minnesota…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Volunteer Training
Bachy, Sylviane; Lebrun, Marcel – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2015
This case study deals with the implementation of ongoing training, offered wholly through distance and online learning, and conducted within the framework of an inter-university partnership linking two European countries. The case story relates the experience of several instructional designers (called "Academic Advisors" in this part of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Training, Online Courses
Cramp, Andy; Lamond, Catherine – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
This paper explores the significance of designing online learning led by the principle of direct and meaningful participant engagement. It considers the notion of kindness as a crucial value contributing to pedagogy and the development of meaningful learning relationships. The paper challenges the "delivery" approach to online learning,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Interpersonal Relationship
Nanclares, Núria Hernández; Rodríguez, Mónica Pérez – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2016
This paper aims to discuss the impact on promoting student satisfaction and improving their involvement in their own learning when applying a "Flipped classroom" design in a first-year bilingual, English-taught module in a non-English-speaking country. "World Economy" is taught in the Faculty of Business and Economics at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Satisfaction, Blended Learning
Cavalli, G.; Hamerton, I.; Lygo-Baker, S. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
Following collaboration between two chemistry lecturers and an academic developer an attempt was made to enhance the learning of students within a chemistry module through the adaptation of the delivery of content material. This paper reports a piece of practitioner led research which considered how effective the approach developed was upon the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Plastics, Interdisciplinary Approach
Dirksen, Debra J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Using formative assessment gives students a second chance to learn material they didn't master the first time around. It lets failure become a learning experience rather than something to fear. Several types of formative assessment are discussed, including how to use summative assessments formatively. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Learning Experience, Learning Modules, Summative Evaluation
Edwards, Dave – International Association for K-12 Online Learning, 2015
The changing demands of the 21st century--and the students growing up in it--are generating fundamental challenges to historical assumptions about what education looks like. The challenge today is to provide a deeper level of personalized learning to each and every student so that all can achieve mastery of the Common Core standards and other…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Planning, Instructional Design, Educational Resources
Sayeski, Kristin L.; Kennedy, Michael J.; de Irala, Sandra; Clinton, Elias; Hamel, Melissa; Thomas, Kristen – Exceptionality, 2015
Researchers have found that teacher preparation programs are not universally preparing teacher candidates in concepts associated with the alphabetic principle. Yet, the majority of students with reading disabilities or who struggle with beginning reading have difficulty with phonology and concepts associated with the alphabetic principle. The…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Concept Teaching, Fundamental Concepts
Kelley, Jennifer – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
As institutions of higher learning rapidly expand their offerings of online, hybrid and other distance learning opportunities for their students, librarians must adapt, adopt and improve information literacy instruction methods to accommodate instructors they may never meet and classes they may never see. Many responses to these challenges, such…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Distance Education, Librarians, Learning Modules
Brewer, Sharon E.; Cinel, Bruno; Harrison, Michelle; Mohr, Christina L. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
In delivering chemistry courses by distance, a key challenge is to offer the learner an authentic and meaningful laboratory experience that still provides the rigour required to continue on in science. To satisfy this need, two distance general chemistry laboratory courses appropriate for Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) students, including chemistry…
Descriptors: Distance Education, College Freshmen, Laboratory Training, Chemistry
Osman, Salyani; Sahari, Noraidah; Zin, Nor Azan Mat – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
The way of teaching and learning traditional crafts have always used traditional apprenticeship learning methods where the expert facilitates transfer of practice skill sets to novices. As a craft has been taught in conventional approach, the students and experts have been facing several problems especially when expert needs to teach a group of…
Descriptors: Tests, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Foreign Countries
Colabroy, Keri L. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2011
Engaging undergraduate students in designing and executing original research should not only be accompanied by technique training but also intentional instruction in the critical analysis and writing of scientific literature. The course described here takes a rigorous approach to scientific reading and writing using primary literature as the model…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Laboratory Experiments, Laboratory Training