New media ‘help toddlers learn’
Parents think electronic media can help children under the age of six to learn vital skills, research suggests.Read the Full Story
Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
System Dynamics in Distance Education and a Call to Develop a Standard Model
This paper describes systems dynamics, reviews the literature of uses of systems concepts in distance education (DE), presents a preliminary model, and ends in a call to researchers to contribute to the building of a standard model of DE.Read the Full Story
New Report and Service on Internet-Supported Learning Trends
Just released! November 1, 2005. What did we learn from working with over 40 higher education online initiatives over the last 6 months? Plenty! We’ve released a 40 page summary report: Internet-Supported Learning (IsL) Self-Audit Study 2005: A Collaborative Approach to Improving Quality and Success. Read the executive summary. Eight vendors/products out of over 43 […]
Individual Learner Differences In Web-based Learning Environments: From Cognitive, Affective and Social-cultural Perspectives
INTRODUCTIONWeb-based learning has become an increasingly important aspect of higher education as it meets the needs of an expanding pool of nontraditional students who find education necessary for jobs in today’s information age, and provides a convenient, flexible and manageable ways to the learning. Through various approaches to learning and thinking, educators and researchers are […]
Exemplary Online Educators: Creating a Community of Inquiry
Within most disciplines there are those who are recognized as being exceptionally competent practitioners. These people are sometimes called exceptional or exemplary. In the educational realm, students remember these individuals at the teachers who most positively influenced their learning. The commonality of these exemplary practitioners is that they do their work in a remarkable way […]
Technology Survey Reveals Funding and Integration into Classroom Biggest Challenges; Preparedness of New Teachers Also a Concern
Denver, CO – October 27 – Funding for technology and integrating technology into the classroom rank among the biggest challenges that school districts face in the area of technology, according to a survey issued today by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) at the organization’s annual T+L² Conference here. Read the Full Story
External and internal complexity of complex adaptive systems
AbstractWe introduce concepts of external and internal complexity to analyze the relation between an adaptive system and its environment. We apply this theoretical framework to the construction of models in a cognitive system and the selection between hypotheses through selective observations performed on a data set in a recurrent process and propose a corresponding neural […]
Systems Thinking: A Lens and Scalpel for Organizational Learning
The focus of this paper is causal inference in social and educational research. A concern with causality has had a profound impact on the kinds of questions that may be addressed in research, on how they must be formulated, and on the methodology that must be applied. In the social sciences the prevailing experimental paradigm […]
Causal Inference and System Dynamics in Social Science Research: A Commentary with Example
The focus of this paper is causal inference in social and educational research. A concern with causality has had a profound impact on the kinds of questions that may be addressed in research, on how they must be formulated, and on the methodology that must be applied. In the social sciences the prevailing experimental paradigm […]
Heading the study of distance education
Michael G. Moore is known in academic circles in the United States for leadership in conceptualising and developing the study of distance education.Read the Full Story