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Acquistion Of Soft Skills And Affective Outcomes In Online Distance Education: A Secondary School Study
(2011-05-11)Canada is facing a shortage of workers skilled in affective outcomes, specifically soft skills. Some fingers are pointing to the primary and secondary institutions for failing to aptly prepare future employees with those ... -
Adaptation and application of a transcript analysis tool to analyze a computer-mediated communication (CMC) distance education course transcript.
(1999-01-01)Traditionally, individuals engaged in correspondence course study were isolated in that they had no venue to communicate with fellow students. They used the telephone if and when they needed assistance from the instructor. ... -
Affect as a Presence in the Community of Inquiry Model
(2006-06-30)This interpretive approach to a mixed-method study examines the likelihood that an awareness of the role of emotion as presented by Damasio and LeDoux enhances individual student participation in computer-mediated conferencing. ... -
Analysis of graduate student attitudes towards computer-mediated communication.
(2000-01-01)Computer-Mediated Communication is a relatively new methodology in the arsenal of universities in their quest to educate graduate students. It has advantages and disadvantages, all documented in some detail in the prevailing ... -
Application of Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf to Adult Literacy Instruction in the Hearing Community
(2006-04-28)Illiteracy remains a serious problem in Canada with a significant proportion of the adult population still unable to read and write. Illiteracy is a particularly serious problem in rural areas because a variety of factors ... -
Attention deficit disorder in adults and distance education.
(1998-01-01)Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) affects not only children but adults; one third to one half of children with ADD do not outgrow this disorder. The number of adults with ADD (ADDults) will increase as the children diagnosed ... -
Audio teleconferencing: examination of instructional strategies for teachers of adult learners.
(2004-01-01)This thesis examines instructional strategies available to teachers of students enrolled in college-level audio teleconferencing courses delivered by distance education. Using the techniques of qualitative research, this ... -
Barriers to the Rural Women of Ranong, Thailand to Accessing Education Using Information and Communication Technology.
(2004-01-01)The purpose of this research is to develop an understanding of rural women's barriers and challenges to education an access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the province of Ranong, Thailand. For women ... -
Building Basic Skills for E-Learning: Adults With Developmental Disabilities Go Online
(2006-07-12)Adults with developmental disabilities are often excluded from participating in a variety of online activities, including e-learning, which are part of everyday life in our digital, knowledge-based society. Numerous barriers ... -
A case study in the planning of interaction in the conversion of an existing course for online delivery.
(2001-01-01)The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate the effects of planning learning activities intended to encourage online student interaction. The investigation targeted several pivotal decision-making points ... -
Case study of a knowledge-based organization.
(2001-01-01)This interpretative case study is an attempt to gain insight into the operation of a successful organization working within the new knowledge-based society, with a view to increasing the efficacy of educational interventions ... -
A Community College Distance Education Delivery Model For A Post Diploma/Degree Human Services Management Certificate Program
(2011-05-11)From 2005 to 2006, the Community Studies Department Chair at Algonquin College approached relevant program advisory committees with the intention of developing a post diploma/degree certificate program in the area of front ... -
A comparative study of multi-media enhanced distance education and conventional instruction of a core paramedical psychomotor skill.
(2002-01-01)Emergency Medical Service (EMS) organizations are turning to distance education as an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom setting. EMS employees require a broad range of core competencies to perform their ... -
Conversational audio in online distance education.
(2001-01-01)This thesis explores the effectiveness of convenient audio in online education. Conversational audio is defined as structured, but not scripted, conversations between the instructor and colleagues, students, subject matters ... -
Deep Learning and Cognitive Presence in Collaborative Web-Based Learning Environments: Student and Instructor Perspectives
(2006-05-14)This study examines the ability of online distance education courses using CMC and constructivist assessment tools to support cognitive presence and deep learning. Four online focus groups were conducted, three among ... -
Design and support strategies for learning in virtual communities of practice.
(2002-01-01)To face the challenges of their profession, individuals need to learn quickly to meet new issues, to develop new knowledge in their organizations and to share the knowledge with others in their community. Increasingly, ... -
Developing a student model for distance education.
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A distance delivery model to improve accessibility to post-diploma baccalaureate level dental hygiene education.
(2000-01-01)Dental hygiene practice is grappling with change as it adapts to the rapidly evolving health care delivery system, and dental hygiene education must respond to the changing needs of its graduates. Dental hygienists and the ... -
Distance education and second language instruction: an analysis and recommendations for integration.
(2004-01-01)The following thesis surveyed and examined the fields of distance education and Second Language Acquisition in order to illustrate key theories and assumptions of both fields. This thesis is a synthesis of relevant learning ... -
Distance Education in Alberta public colleges.
(1999-01-01)The intent of this study was to analyse and describe the attitudes and decision making criteria utilized by senior decision makers within Alberta's public colleges and how they affect the adoption or rejection of distance ...