Browsing Canadian Institute for Distance Education Research (CIDER) by Title
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Bi-National Learning and the Internet--Grassroots Experiments in Global Education
(2011-01-20)Students at a French immersion high school in Ottawa and a school in Brazil exchange recipes, using a combination of French, English and Portuguese. The Brazilians discover they like poutine! Children in a rural Sierra ... -
Blended Online Learning Design: Shaken not Stirred
(2010-04-21)Given the crucial role played by universities in a knowledge-based society, understanding how and under what conditions online learning (OL) can improve access to graduate studies is of the highest importance to today’s ... -
Can Mobile Learning Enhance Nursing Practice Education?
(2010-03-15)The changing context of health care delivery presents challenges for the teaching and learning of nursing students. There is a need to test the utility of new strategies and tools to supervise students' practice at the ... -
Community of Inquiry Framework: Validation and Instrument Development
(2008-02-29)Since its publication in The Internet and Higher Education, Garrison, Anderson, and Archer’s (2000) Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework has generated substantial interest among online learning researchers. This presentation ... -
Designing the Undesignable: Social Software and Control
(2008-02-28)In this presentation, Dr. Jon Dron will discuss his recently published article, “Designing the undesignable: Social Software and Control”. In this article, Dr Dron states that social software, such as blogs, wikis, tagging ... -
EduBlogs as Metaphor
(2010-04-21)This presentation will discuss a number of recent case studies, contrast examples of private and public edublogs, and explore issues such as learner and instructor roles and responsibilities, learner choices, ethical ... -
The Effective Use of Synchronous Classes within an Online Graduate Program: Building upon an Interdependent System
(2008-06-06)In this presentation, Janet Groen, Janet Tworek, and Maria Soos-Gonczol will discuss the implementation of effective synchronous voice communication sessions within a graduate level university program in education from the ... -
Emotion, Learning and the Online Learning Environment
(2008-06-20)In spite of evidence that more and more students are engaging in online learning experiences (Alan & Seaman, 2006), clarity about the transition to a new learning environment is still at arm’s length (Cleveland-Innes, ... -
Exploring Distance Education Research
(2011-01-31)This presentation summarizes a series of three studies to explore the field of distance education research. The aim of the first study was to develop a validated classification of research areas to organize the body of ... -
Implementing Digital Story Telling in a Computers in Education Course
(2010-04-21)Assessment and the integration of advanced technologies are key themes for the 21st century educator. The electronic portfolio project was developed to explore the possibilities of using web-based technology to store ... -
International DE opportunities in difficult economic times
(2010-04-21)The world's current economic crisis is placing serious pressures on distance education. In October 2009, the situation was addressed at an International Summit on Distance Education, held in Beijing. The conference focused ... -
Learning Issues for Online Graduate Students
(2011-02-01)Results are shared from a recent doctoral study that explored the leadership implications for delivering online learning in a mainstream Canadian higher education institution by examining the characteristics, attributes, ... -
Message Interactions in Online Asynchronous Discussions: The Problem of Being “Too Nice”
(2011-01-21)Much research concerning asynchronous online discussion reports quantitative data such as frequency of posting, time online, and number of characters or words. To effectively understand online discourse within education ... -
Message Interactions in Online Asynchronous Discussions: The Problem of Being “Too Nice”
(2011-01-31)Much research concerning asynchronous online discussion reports quantitative data such as frequency of posting, time online, and number of characters or words. To effectively understand online discourse within education ... -
Mobile Learning: Solutions & Challenges
(2011-02-01)In this session, Marguerite Koole, Fatma Elsayed Meawad, and Inge de Waard will describe two mobile learning projects: 1. A project piloting a Java-based system called “MobiGlam”. Through MobiGlam, students accessed ... -
Moving Online: taking teaching and learning beyond four walls
(2011-01-20)In this session, Stephen Rowe shares his experiences developing an entirely online offering of an Australian undergraduate course catering to 200 students enrolled across 3 campuses. The model that was developed serves ... -
Online Teaching in International Contexts: Towards a Sociocultural Perspective of Teaching Presence
(2008-03-29)In this presentation, Tannis Morgan shares her doctoral research that looks at cases of teaching presence in international online distance courses. Cultural historical activity theory (Engestrom, 1999, 2001) is adopted as ... -
Ontologies for Effective Use of Context in e-Learning Settings
(2008-02-28)This presentation will focus on an ontology-based framework aimed at explicit representation of context-specific metadata derived from the actual usage of learning objects and learning designs. The core part of the proposed ... -
The Personal Research Portal: The Virtual Faculty or the Net behind the Classroom
(2008-04-11)In this presentation, Ismael Peña-López expands on his previous research into personal research portals to propose ways in which educators may use web 2.0 tools to build themselves a place on the net - a personal research ... -
Presence Pedagogy: Building Communities of Practice in Virtual Worlds
(2010-03-16)As the use of 3D immersive virtual worlds in higher education expands, it is important to examine which pedagogical approaches are most likely to bring about success. AET Zone, a 3D immersive virtual world in use for more ...