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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 ...
The Use of Whiteboards in Synchronous Online Drop-In Tutorials in Distance Delivered Courses
(2008-03-14)
Online whiteboard technology has seen limited application in the practice of distance education. This technology is particularly suited to disciplines that are communicated and taught visually and symbolically, which ...
WikiEducator: A return to the traditions of the academy?
(2008-10-22)
The Open Education Resource (OER) movement shows considerable potential to reduce cost, improve quality and widen access to educational opportunities. Facilitated by the power of social software in a connected world as ...
Adoption of Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education
(2008-09-03)
This presentation is based on Dr. Parchoma’s recently published (May 2008) book, Adoption of Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education. The presentation reports the findings of a study of the influences of organizational ...
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, ...
Assessing the Quality of K-12 Online Content: A sample assessment rubric
(2008-05-30)
What factors create an effective online course from a “content” point of view? This session will highlight the assessment criteria and the review process that was used to review the content of K-12 online learning tools ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...