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Alvarenga, Cacilda Encarnação Augusto; Ginestié, Jacques; Brandt-Pomares, Pascale – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
This study investigated the use of digital learning objects in elementary and secondary schools. The specific objectives were: a) to identify the frequency with which learning object are used by teachers, the type of object most frequently used, the teaching strategies that is more frequently adopted, the main reason for the use of learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Units, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Moskal, Patsy; Thompson, Kelvin; Futch, Linda – Online Learning, 2015
BlendKit is a 5-week course designed by the University of Central Florida in an open, online format specifically for the professional development of higher education faculty and designers preparing to design and teach blended learning courses. The evaluation of this course provides us with interesting and valuable information on the success of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Professional Development, Higher Education, College Faculty
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Anu, Liljeström; Jorma, Enkenberg; Sinikka, Pöllänen – Education and Information Technologies, 2014
This paper presents a case study in which multi-age students (aged 6-12, N?=?32) in small groups made autonomous inquiries about the phenomenon of winter fishing within the framework of design-oriented pedagogy. The research analyzed storytelling videos that the students produced as learning objects. These videos revealed a picture of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Cooperative Learning, Inquiry
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Sun, Jerry Chih-Yuan; Wu, Yu-Ting – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of two different teaching methods on learning effectiveness. OpenCourseWare was integrated into the flipped classroom model (experimental group) and distance learning (control group). Learning effectiveness encompassed learning achievement, teacher-student interactions, and learning satisfaction.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Xu, Hong – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to identify factors that motivate or impede faculty use of learning object repositories (LORs). The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) served as the theoretical framework for this study. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used in the study to explore two research questions…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty
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Raddon, Mary-Beth; Raby, Rebecca; Sharpe, Erin – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2009
Challenged by some of the inherent difficulties in teaching qualitative data analysis, three instructors created an interactive digital learning object entitled "Sleuthing the Layered Text: Investigating Coding." In this paper we assess the effectiveness of that learning object as a tool for teaching qualitative coding. On the face of it, learning…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Coding, Teaching Methods
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Costelloe, Eileen; Sherry, Elisabeth; Magee, Patricia – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007
Teaching programming to novices has proved challenging for both learner and lecturer due to the abstraction and complexity of the subject matter. The work described in this paper is part of an EU funded Minerva project called TUPULO (Teaching Undergraduate Programming Using Learning Objects) which aims to address the challenges faced by novice…
Descriptors: Programming, Undergraduate Study, Resource Units, Constructivism (Learning)