Canadian Institute for Distance Education Research (CIDER): Recent submissions
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2010 State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada
(2011-02-01)This presentation will focus on the 2010 State of the Nation - the third annual survey of K-12 distance education in Canada. This year’s report documents similar trends in the regulation of K-12 distance education from ... -
Students Perceptions of Effective Teaching in Higher Education: Face-to-face and at a Distance
(2011-02-01)Using a unique online approach to data gathering, students were asked to isolate the characteristics they believe are essential to effective teaching at the university level. An open-ended online survey was made available ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Three Generations of Distance Education Pedagogy
(2011-01-20)In this presentation Terry defines three pedagogical models that have defined distance education programming - behavioural/cognitive, constructionist and connectivist. He talks about the challenges and opportunity afforded ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Study of Teachers’ Informal Learning in the Workplace
(2010-04-22)This presentation focuses on the research perspective and methodology of two studies, conducted in the Netherlands, which were aimed at describing how experienced secondary school teachers learn at work in an informal ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Social Networking with Web 2.0: A Comparative Study of On-Campus and On-line Students
(2010-04-21)In this presentation Barbara Frey and Lorna Kearns summarize a study of back channel communication that took place at the University of Pittsburgh among on-campus and online learners enrolled in the Master of Library and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Adaptation of Online Courses for New Educational Contexts
(2010-03-16)One of the challenges in online learning is adaptation of material developed for one educational setting to be appropriate in another. Qualitative case-study research explored adaptation of online continuing education ... -
Re-Thinking E-Learning Research
(2010-03-16)In education, novel practices, applications, and forms-- from bulletin boards to Webcasts, and from online educational games to open educational resources -- have been proliferating rapidly. However, research of these ... -
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 ... -
Using Second Life to promote students’ engagement
(2010-03-16)This presentation will discuss the challenges and possibilities of using Second Life as a platform to learn ‘hands–on’ skills in a polytechnic environment, and the opportunities that this social software brings to a ...