E-Conferencing for Instruction: What Works?
A study of e-conferencing tools found relationships between specific tools and certain pedagogical principlesRead the Full Article
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Accessibility of Educational Multimedia: in search of specific standards
This paper deals with the issue of the accessibility of multimedia educational software. The problem is tackled from the viewpoint of standards, that is of the rules to be adopted at institutional level in order to guarantee access to educational software to all students, including those with special needs. The key question to be answered […]
Delivering What Students say they Want On-line: Towards Academic Participation in the Enfranchisement of e-Learners?
Sustainable e-learning holds the promise of enabling higher education to meet the needs of a large and diverse market. Central to this is the response of academic staff teams in meeting the needs of individual learners, in order to enfranchise them within their learning context. Read the Full Article
Understanding hypertext cognition: Developing mental models to aid users’ comprehension
This paper uses literature on hypertext theory to evaluate our reading strategies in an online environment. Assessing the impact of digital technology on our educational environment and culture, the paper recommends a new form of pedagogy for hypertexts based on Walter Ong’s concept of ‘secondary orality’.Read the Full Article
Collaborative Coaching and Networking for Online Instructors
This paper presents a model of professional development using collaborative coaching and networking which has been used to improve online instructor effectiveness. Components of the model are presented in the context of a ten-year-old faculty development program at a private university in the Southeast. A collaborative coaching checklist is also provided.Read the Full Article
Online Courses Demonstrate Use of Seven Principles
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception of students and instructors in selected online courses relative to the use of Chickering and Gamson’s (1987) Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education. The principles were originally developed for face-to-face instruction, but may be applicable in a variety of instructional delivery methods (Chickering […]
Designing Websites for Learning and Enjoyment: A study of museum experiences
This study reports on an exploratory research study that examined the design of websites that encourage both learning and enjoyment. This study examines museum websites that offer educational materials. Read the Full Article
Should Tutoring Services be Added to our High-Enrolling Distance Education Courses?
Distance learning administrators are always looking for ways to balance increasing demands on instructor time, rising expectations from students and faculty for support services, mounting competition, and escalating costs with quality instruction and interaction. Increasingly, programs are responding to these competing interests by appending ancillary resources to course materials and textbooks and by using computer-mediated […]
Open Educational Resources – anonymity vs. specificity
Open Educational Resources are a recent concept in regard of the organisation of world wide sharing of educational materials and tools. This concept is oriented at the model of OpenSource software production or Wikipedia. Also for institutions like the UNESCO or the OECD, which are interested in the development of OER, it is the main […]
E-accessibility to educational content for the deaf
This paper focuses on the implementation of an e-learning environment for the educational support of the deaf, as a paradigm of deaf inclusion in the Information Society. The developed platform allows structuring and presentation of Greek Sign Language (GSL) educational material and linguistic resources, addressing the needs of GSL grammar teaching to early primary school […]