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This study investigated the perception of students and instructors in online technology courses relative to the use of seven principles that demonstrate good practices in undergraduate education. The principles were originally developed for face-to-face instruction, but are applicable in a variety of instructional delivery methods.Read the Full Article
BAGHDAD — It makes for a strange college campus: Cement blast walls, helicopters roaring overhead, packs of wild dogs howling, the risk of mortar and rocket attacks. Faculty keep Kevlar flak jackets at the ready. Students bring their rifles to class and leave them on the floor with the barrel pointing toward the front of […]
CHICAGO, Dec 18, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — McGraw-Hill Contemporary has introduced Pre-GED Online to provide interactive instruction in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies for students who lack the reading ability to work with GED-level materials. Read the Full Article
Money-saving measure would use distance-learning technologyRead the Full Article
Delivering broadband Internet service to rural and low-income Tennessee residents has its challenges, but a recent report by a group tasked with promoting that delivery shows progress is being made.Read the Full Article
This study was conducted with data mining (DM) techniques to analyze various patterns of online learning behaviors, and to make predictions on learning outcomes . Statistical models and machine learning DM techniques were conducted to analyze 17,934 server logs to investigate 98 undergraduate students’ learning behaviors in an online business course in Taiwan. Read the […]
The study investigated whether two different versions of an online professional development course produced different impacts on the intended outcomes of the course. Variations of an online course for middle school algebra teachers were created for two experimental conditions. One was an actively facilitated course with asynchronous peer interactions among participants. The second was a […]
Using video games, virtual simulations, and other digital spaces for learning can be a time-consuming process; aside from technical issues that may absorb class time, students take longer to achieve gains in learning in virtual environments.Read the Full Article
A unified approach to the presentation of information for online learning can inform the creation of pedagogically effective web pagesRead the Full Article
John Kuglin’s background is as eclectic as the 21st century learning skillset he advocates. He’s been an educator since 1971. He’s worked with NASA by way of the Earth Observing System project at the University of Montana. He’s been a vice president at a digital media authoring and production studio (ComChoice, now known as Scope […]