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Download full textCicco, Gina – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2016
This article will review the experiences of a graduate counselor educator in teaching and evaluating her online courses. The author will summarize her most effective instructional and assessment mechanisms, based on student performance through achievement of course objectives as well as students' feedback and comments on specific online counseling…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Course Evaluation, Graduate Study, Counselor Educators
Pazzaglia, Angela M.; Clements, Margaret; Lavigne, Heather J.; Stafford, Erin T. – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2016
This study used administrative data from Wisconsin Virtual School to identify patterns of student engagement in online courses (defined as the amount of time students were logged in to their course each week and how this varied over time). The study also examined whether the patterns were associated with course outcomes (defined as the percentage…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Online Courses, Outcomes of Education, Virtual Classrooms
Direct linkHermans, Henry; Kalz, Marco; Koper, Rob – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present an e-learning system that integrates the use of concepts of virtual learning environments, personal learning environments, and social network sites. The system is based on a learning model which comprises and integrates three learning contexts for the adult learner: the formal, instructional…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Electronic Learning, Social Networks, Open Universities
Costello, Eamon – Open Learning, 2013
The virtual learning environment (VLE) has grown to become a piece of complex infrastructure that is now deemed critical to higher educational provision. This paper looks at Moodle and its adoption in higher education. Moodle's origins, as an open source VLE, are investigated and its growth examined in the context of how higher educational…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Higher Education, Open Source Technology, Computer Software
Herritsch, Alfred; Rahim, Elin Abdul; Fee, Conan J.; Morison, Ken R.; Gostomski, Peter A. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2013
Immersive learning applications in chemical and process engineering are creating the opportunity to bring entire process plants to the student. While meant to complement field trips, in some cases, this is the only opportunity for students to engage with certain industrial sites due to site regulations (health and safety, hygiene, intellectual…
Descriptors: College Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Industry
Noorbehbahani, Fakhroddin; Samani, Elaheh Biglar Beigi; Jazi, Hossein Hadian – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
Assessment is one of the most essential parts of any instructive learning process which aims to evaluate a learner's knowledge about learning concepts. In this work, a new method for learner assessment based on learner annotations is presented. The proposed method exploits the M-BLEU algorithm to find the most similar reference annotations…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Evaluation, Educational Environment, Virtual Classrooms
Emerson, Adam – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2013
When charter schools first emerged more than two decades ago, they presented an innovation in public school governance. No longer would school districts enjoy the "exclusive franchise" to own and operate public schools, as chartering pioneer and advocate Ted Kolderie explained. Charters wouldn't gain all of the independence of private…
Descriptors: Governance, Charter Schools, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change
Tamim, Rana M. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2018
Blended learning (BL) is still in its infancy in the United Arab Emirates, but is gaining growing attention and acceptance. The particular university under investigation offers its nationally accredited graduate programs with a BL format that makes use of synchronous virtual classrooms, asynchronous self-study, and face-to-face sessions. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Graduate Students, Student Empowerment
Snow, William H.; Lamar, Margaret R.; Hinkle, J. Scott; Speciale, Megan – Professional Counselor, 2018
The Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs (CACREP) database of institutions revealed that as of March 2018 there were 36 CACREP-accredited institutions offering 64 online degree programs. As the number of online programs with CACREP accreditation continues to grow, there is an expanding body of research…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Educational Practices, Counselor Training, Online Courses
Carroll, Catherine; Brackenbury, Gill; Herbert, Elisabeth; Lee, Frances; Roberts, Amelia; Cameron, Claire; Freitag, Sara; Crombie, Kerry; Farley, Claire; Parrott, Suzanne; Pike, Jo; Prodohl, Fiona; Connolley, Kelley; MacCarthy, Barbara; Buchanan, Anne-Marie; Brian, Rachael; Lawford, Sarah; Walkey, Amy; Barnes, Kieran; Lane, Sarah; Bettencourt, Michael; Black, Emma; Bland, Michelle; Borrell, Vicky; Middleton, Serena; de Bossart, Jennie; Stanbridge, Peter – Institute of Education - London, 2018
As of March 2017, there were 72,670 children and young people in care in England. The number of looked after children has continued to increase steadily over the last eight years. Sixty per cent of these children are in care because of abuse or neglect and three-quarters are placed in foster care arrangements. Children and young people who are in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Low Achievement, Student Needs
Stoddard, Jeremy – Curriculum Inquiry, 2015
The notion that embedded meanings exist within media, and are informed by particular ideologies, is far from new. Analyses of curriculum, however, rarely examine empirically the role of these ideologies or the context of production. Instead, the ideologies are attributed to a "producer" representing particular power relationships or…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Case Studies, Ideology, Academic Standards
Oassim-Al-shboul, Oassim Mahmoud; Sabiote, Clemente Rodriguez; Álvarez-Rodríguez, José – Digital Education Review, 2015
The goal of this study is to determine the perceptions that the teaching staff of the Faculty of Education at University of Al-Yarmouk (Jordan) have of the implementation of distance learning in virtual environments, more specifically, the professors' opinion of the potential and limitations of this educational strategy. To fulfil this goal, we…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Virtual Classrooms, College Faculty, Higher Education
O'Malley, Patrick J.; Agger, Jonathan R.; Anderson, Michael W. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
An analysis is presented of the experience and lessons learned of running a MOOC in introductory physical chemistry. The course was unique in allowing students to conduct experimental measurements using a virtual laboratory constructed using video and simulations. A breakdown of the student background and motivation for taking the course is…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Teaching Methods, Virtual Classrooms, Open Education
Panichi, Luisa – Research-publishing.net, 2015
This paper reports on an exploratory case study of learner participation within the context of online language learning in virtual world platforms. Data for this investigation was collected through a case study of a Business English course within a qualitative Case-Study Research framework. This study examines learner activity in virtual worlds in…
Descriptors: Criticism, Virtual Classrooms, Case Studies, Online Courses
Serianni, Barbara A.; Coy, Kimberly – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2014
The purpose of this article is to provide teachers and parents with a framework and practical ideas for supporting their students with disabilities in online mathematics. Through the fictional scenarios involving Martin and Liana, factors that may contribute to a successful online learning experience will be explored, highlighting the benefits and…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Mathematics Instruction
