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Dantus, Sabine Jean – Distance Learning, 2022
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are open online courses available to any learner who wants to enroll. Many traditional educational institutions were forced to close their doors temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the pandemic in 2020, the most significant increase in interest and enrollment in MOOCs happened in 2012 (Impey &…
Descriptors: MOOCs, COVID-19, Pandemics, Enrollment
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Hebbel-Seeger, Andreas; Riehm, Philipp; Kopischke, André; Baranovskaa, Marianna – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
In times of PodCast and MOOCs, a rebirth of the "classical" academic lecture in the form of modern technology-mediated communication as video-conserve can be observed. Current technological developments in the field of audiovisual media reduce the distance between a recorded action and its reception. By using high immersive technologies…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Lecture Method, Technology Uses in Education, Audiovisual Aids
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Alpert, Frank – SAGE Open, 2016
Today, the lecture class as a format for higher education is under attack more than ever. This article addresses the research question of how lectures can be modernized and revitalized through new uses of digital technology--in particular, video. Critics of lecturing have for a long time observed that lecture classes can be weak on student…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Lecture Method, College Instruction
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McLaren, Helen J.; Kenny, Paul L. – Australian Universities' Review, 2015
Teaching academics are under pressure to move away from traditional lecture-tutorial teaching modes to less traditional forms. Such pressures are in addition to changes to funding arrangements and other developments that increasingly oblige universities to operate as businesses. The flow-on effects for teachers are increased student:staff ratios,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Lecture Method, Higher Education
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Gorlewicz, Jenna L.; Kratchman, Louis B.; Webster, Robert J., III – Advances in Engineering Education, 2014
The haptic paddle is a force-feedback joystick used at several universities in teaching System Dynamics, a core mechanical engineering undergraduate course where students learn to model dynamic systems in several domains. A second goal of the haptic paddle is to increase the accessibility of robotics and haptics by providing a low-cost device for…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Laboratory Equipment, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education
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Lawler, Ellen M.; Chen, X. Mara; Venso, Elichia A. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2007
The increased use of instructional technology in the past decade has brought about many changes in college teaching, including changes in the lecture format. We surveyed students in six science courses to obtain their opinions regarding technology use, as well as non-technological instructional techniques, and the characteristics of outstanding…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology, Lecture Method