vendredi 19 avril 2019 par Michelle Deschênes, Thérèse Laferrière
Les enseignantes et les enseignants du collégial partagent avec les établissements d’enseignement la responsabilité de leur développement professionnel. Cet article a trait au codesign d’une plateforme numérique au service de l’agentivité des enseignants en situation de développement (…)
vendredi 19 avril 2019 par Meina Zhu, Curtis J. Bonk, Annisa R. Sari
This mixed methods study explores instructor motivations for offering massive open online courses (MOOCs) as well as the instructional innovations used to enhance the MOOC design. The researchers surveyed 143 MOOC instructors worldwide and then interviewed 12 of these instructors via Zoom. They (…)
vendredi 19 avril 2019 par Yuan Chen, Saul Carliner, Salvador Garcia Martinez, Ann-Louise Davidson
Because they are believed to be able to lower the costs of an education, e-books have been factored into the technology plans for community colleges and CEGEPs during the current decade. But adoption is a function of perceptions, which this study explored: (1) General perceptions of the CEGEP (...)
vendredi 19 avril 2019 par Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier, Jane Moseley
Quality teaching includes reflective practice, dialogue, and curiosity and depends on personal, institutional, and community assets and constraints, as well as on the individual’s definitions of the roles of education in society. Based on an environmental scan and action research with (...)
Educational devices can include play-based elements, and even take the form of so-called serious video games combining educational and playful aspects. Educational engineering models, however, do not take into consideration the addition of play-based features in educational devices. As for (...)
vendredi 4 janvier 2019 par Scott Comber, Martine Durier-Copp, Anatolity Gruzd
This study seeks to understand instructors’ perceptions of social network analysis (SNA) and network visualizations as learning analytics (LA) tools for generating useful insights about student online interactions in their class. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from three (...)
vendredi 4 janvier 2019 par Adrienne M.F. Peters, Jane Costello, Daph Crane
As the use of social media in post-secondary education expands, so does the research literature examining its effectiveness in engaging students. Studies have examined the use of Twitter as an assessment and engagement tool, and since this is a broad and growing research area, better (...)
vendredi 4 janvier 2019 par Diogo Casanova, Linda Price
This paper addresses the issue of sustainability in online learning in higher education. It introduces and discusses a five-level framework for helping higher education institutions to make the transition from enterprise to sustainable policy and practice in online learning. In particular, it (...)
This exploratory case study evaluates the implementation and use by student coaches of an innovative coaching profiling system, Touch Screen Technology (TST), to assess coaching behaviours. The study was designed to evaluate the potential of this technologically-enhanced assessment system as a (...)