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Lakshmi, Y. Vijaya; Majid, Ishfaq – Online Submission, 2022
The present study reports about the factors that determine the readiness of students towards E-learning. Through a small-scale literature review, efforts were made to identify the key factors that determine the readiness of students towards E-learning. The researcher used technique of content analysis for reviewing the literature. The literature…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Readiness, Higher Education
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Nathan A. Hawk; Kui Xie; Azita Manouchehri – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2025
In online virtual-based learning, combining more adaptive personal student characteristics with risk factors, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between student at-risk factors and mathematics achievement. Further, the study examined how personal student characteristics, which are sometimes amenable to change and…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Mathematics Achievement, Nontraditional Students, High School Students
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Sarwar, Muhammad Shabbir; Hussain, Mudassar; Haq, Waqar Ul – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2020
There is conflict in previous research about the prospects and the consequences of Facebook raising eye brows whether to use Facebook in a pedagogical design. This paper analyzed the educational motives and the perceived academic consequences as the predictors of Facebook use, besides explaining the interaction effects of time patterns (daily and…
Descriptors: Social Media, College Students, Student Attitudes, Prediction
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Owusu-Mensah, Francis – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2019
The study explored the effectiveness or otherwise of the in-built activities in the course manuals given to DE students of the University of Education in supporting their learning. Adopting the sequential mixed method design, 156 respondents were purposively selected from two study centres of the University. Data were collected using questionnaire…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, College Students, Educational Technology
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Kamsa, Imane; Elouahbi, Rachid; El Khoukhi, Fatima – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Learners' concentration is an essential factor for learning and acquisition. The duration of concentration varies from one individual to another. Some learners have a long duration of concentration; whereas, others have a short one. Leaving the learner in front of a screen for a random duration is a strategy that does not optimize online learning.…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Attention, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed. – Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age, 2022
This volume focuses on the implications of digital technologies for educators and educational decision makers that are not widely represented in the literature. The chapters contained in the volume are based on the presentations at the 2020 edition of the CELDA conference and cover multiple developments in the field such as deploying learning…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods
Khan, Bibi Rabia – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether supplemental instruction and online homework can improve student performance and understanding in a first-semester calculus course at a large urban four-year college. The study examined the metacognitive and study skills and posttest scores of students. The study also focused on students' and…
Descriptors: Homework, Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Calculus
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Lee, Ji Eun; Recker, Mimi M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
We describe the application of the Evidence-Centered Design (ECD) framework to measure the self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies of students' enrolled in an online mathematics course by using their trace logs captured by a Learning Management System (LMS). We found that the ECD framework was helpful in building evidentiary arguments for…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Integrated Learning Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Dvorak, Tomas; Jia, Miaoqing – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2016
This study analyzes the relationship between students' online work habits and academic performance. We utilize data from logs recorded by a course management system (CMS) in two courses at a small liberal arts college in the U.S. Both courses required the completion of a large number of online assignments. We measure three aspects of students'…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Technology, Study Habits, Academic Achievement
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Miyamoto, Yohsuke R.; Coleman, Cody A.; Williams, Joseph Jay; Whitehill, Jacob; Nesterko, Sergiy; Reich, Justin – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2015
A long history of laboratory and field experiments have demonstrated that dividing study time into many sessions is often superior to massing study time into few sessions, a phenomenon known as the "spacing effect." We use this well-established finding from the psychology literature as inspiration for investigating how students…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Pardos, Zachary A. – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2015
In Miyamoto et al. (2015, this issue) the authors looked to substantiate the presence of the spacing effect, referenced from the psychology literature, in several MOOCs. Their secondary analyses constituted a robust, empirical finding on the correspondence between session distribution and certification but with only a coarse, analogous…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Jones, Virginia R. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2012
The Millennial Generation is a subject of paramount interest for 21st-century educators. It is a generation unlike its predecessors, with some stating it is the most intelligent consumer generation in history. Experts in the fields of neurobiology and psychology have found that Millennial brains may actually be "physically different" because of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Study Habits, Age Groups, Technology Integration
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Nair, Sindhu P. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
The growth of enrolment in the ODL system has been considerable. However, another parameter of significance in the context of Open and Distance learning is the learner success rate. While enrolment rates have been very encouraging in distance education, the pass-out rates haven't been similar. There is a need to focus on the dynamics involved…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
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Winter, Jennie; Cotton, Debby; Gavin, Joan; Yorke, Jon D. – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2010
This paper reports the findings of a small-scale study that documented the use of information technology for learning by a small group of postgraduate students. Our findings support current knowledge about characteristics displayed by effective e-learners, but also highlight a less researched but potentially important issue in developing…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, Learning Activities, Information Technology
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Otrel-Cass, Kathrin; Cowie, Bronwen; Campbell, Alison – Journal of Institutional Research, 2009
This article explores the issue of university student recruitment and retention beyond the first and second year of studying science. The research investigated the "image" students have of science, the demands they face in studying science and student self-efficacy, and the relative importance of these factors as perceived by 140…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Recruitment, Academic Persistence, Science Education
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