Posts Tagged ‘Instructional Systems’

Teacher Education at a Distance: What are the Student Teachers Saying?

The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is one of the increasing Open and Distance learning Institution that has reposition itself for innovative teacher training programme at a distance. This ODL paradigm has widen student’s access and opened up n ew possibilities of learning. But if the emergence of student’s voice has presented itself as […]

Nebraska College Launches New Data Science Major

Nebraska Wesleyan University has developed an integrative data science major designed to connect its traditional liberal arts education with high-tech skills now in demand by employers. Nebraska Wesleyan University

Download Report: Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific

The rapid advancement of technologies and their ubiquitous use in our daily lives have dramatically changed the way knowledge is created and disseminated. As a technology-enhanced pedagogical approach, blended learning – the deliberate combination of online learning with face-to-face classroom-based learning – provides higher education institutions (HEIs) with the opportunities to enhance the quality of […]

Representation of Knowledge In Digital Educational Environments: A Systematic Review Of Literature

The representation of knowledge is a process widely used in education for its potential to generate deep learning, metacognition, and also in mapping the student’s cognitive structure while developing a broad spectrum of thinking skills. Notwithstanding the abovementioned benefits, the development and evolution of new digital ecologies of learning is still an unexplored field for […]

Learning Analytics to Inform the Learning Design: Supporting Instructor’s Inquiry into Student Learning in Unsupervised Technology-Enhanced Platforms

Instructors may design and implement formative assessments on technology-enhanced platforms (e.g., online quizzes) with the intention of encouraging the use of effective learning strategies like active retrieval of information and spaced practice among their students. However, when students interact with unsupervised technology-enhanced learning platforms, instructors are often unaware of students’ actual use of the learning […]

Orchestrating Learning Analytics (ORLA): Supporting Inter-Stakeholder Communication About Adoption Of Learning Analytics At The Classroom Level

Despite the recent surge of interest in learning analytics (LA), their adoption in everyday classroom practice is still slow. Knowledge gaps and lack of inter-stakeholder communication (particularly with educational practitioners) have been posited as critical factors for previous LA adoption failures. Yet, what issues should researchers, practitioners and other actors communicate about, when considering the […]

The Collaborative Mapping Model: Relationship-Centered Design for Higher Education

Instructional designers list one of their primary obstacles as collaborating with faculty (Intentional Futures, 2016).  Additionally, instructional designers experience a high degree of role misperception and struggle to advocate for clear and defined roles (Drysdale, 2018).  In order to address these challenges, I created the Collaborative Mapping Model (CMM), a model of instructional design for […]

From Confounded Common Ground: Misunderstandings Between Tertiary Teachers and Students in Online Discussions

Drawing on findings from two studies, this article focuses on the expectations of students and teachers in higher education, when learning via asynchronous online discussions. In particular, this synthesis highlights a divergence of expectations. The first study investigated how students and teachers experienced asynchronous online discussion within initial teacher education at undergraduate level. The second […]

Learning Also Needs To Be a Little Fun: What Academic Learning Goals Can Students Achieve by Developing Games

This study presents an exploratory investigation of how learning through game development can contribute to students’ academic learning and how applying game making for learning as a teaching method can be linked to subject-specific learning goals. The paper describes a project where twenty-two second grade Danish students worked with problem-based assignments that supported them in […]

Winning the Battle for Student Success

One higher education institution, South Texas College, is winning the battle for student success, fighting against poverty and language barriers with the help of a mobile communication tool. EDUCAUSE Review