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Digital Practices and Literacy Identities: Preservice Teachers Negotiating Contradictory Discourses of Innovation

This paper presents the results of a research study on preservice English teachers’ understandings of the interconnection of literacy and technology in relation to their teaching practices. The study was conducted in an English education program among preservice teachers enrolled in a year-long internship. The data analyzed consisted of interview and group discussion transcripts as […]

Examining Informal Learning using Mobile Devices in the Healthcare Workplace

The study of workplace learning and informal learning are not new to adult education and pedagogy. However, the use of mobile devices as learning tools for informal learning in the workplace is an understudied area. Using theories on informal learning and constructivism as a framework, this paper explores informal learning of registered nurses using mobile […]

Design and Development of a Self-Assessment Tool and Investigating its Effectiveness for E-Learning

One of the most effective tools in e-learning is the Self-Assessment Tool (SAT) and research has shown that students need to accurately assess their own performance thus improving their learning. The study involved the design and development of a self-assessment tool based on the Revised Blooms taxonomy Framework. As a second step in investigating the […]

Transactional Distance among Open University Students: How Does it Affect the Learning Process?

This study examines the presence of transactional distance among students, the factors affecting it, as well as the way it influences the learning process of students in a blended distance learning setting in Greece. The present study involved 12 postgraduate students of the Hellenic Open University (HOU). A qualitative research was conducted, using information collected […]

Top Online Teachers Share: How Technology Helps Students Succeed

SREB/iNACOL National Online Teachers of the Year are capitalizing on technology to engage students in exciting ways. In this report, the NOTY winners and finalists share experiences that can help all teachers integrate technology into the classroom to reach students effectively. Benefits include connecting with every student as an individual; differentiating instruction for individual students; […]

Open University underlines innovation credentials with appointment of new director

Prof Patrick McAndrew is new Director of Institute of Educational Technology Open University (UK) Press Release

Introduction to Distance Education: Corporate eLearning

By: Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Distance education has enjoyed several decades of growth in major corporations, particularly since the 1960s. Many major corporations developed and managed their own distance education programs as a function of their training departments. Some also relied on programs offered by institutions of higher education. In the 1906s, for example, Stanford […]

Introduction to Distance Education: The U. S. Military

The U. S. military has been at the forefront of new developments in distance education, and is one of its largest users throughout the world. In the 1970s the U. S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) (http://www-tradoc.army.mil) use of correspondence education had increased to a point that it was operating one of the largest […]

The Study That Shows the Significant Differences

By: Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Since the 1960s when Wilber Schramm (1907-1987), Professor of International Communication at Stanford University demonstrated that there is no statistically significant difference between learning in a classroom and learning from television, there have been many similar comparative studies. Researchers over the past fifty years have compared mediated education with classroom education […]

Learning Analytics: Readiness and Rewards

This paper introduces the relatively new field of learning analytics, first by considering the relevant meanings of both “learning” and “analytics,” and then by looking at two main levels at which learning analytics can be or has been implemented in educational organizations. Although turnkey systems or modules are not yet available for review, specific technologies […]

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