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 (...)
jeudi 27 septembre 2018 par Timothy Frank Hopper, Hong Fu, Katherine Sanford, David Monk
Professional programs in postsecondary education have long been using electronic portfolios (ePs) for diverse purposes, for example, assessment, certification, showcasing, and learning. However, in our practices of using ePs in teacher education for the past several years, we have found that (...)
jeudi 27 septembre 2018 par Alain Stockless, Stéphane Villeneuve, Benjamin Gingras
L’utilisation des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) en contexte éducatif est un enjeu important pour les enseignants du préscolaire-primaire et du secondaire au Québec. Dans cette recherche, nous avons examiné dans quelle mesure la maitrise d’outils numériques peut (…)
jeudi 27 septembre 2018 par Hedieh Najafi, Carol Rolheiser, Laurie Harrison, Will Heikoop
We examined how massive open online courses (MOOC) learners’ motivational factors, self-efficacy, and task-value related to their course progress and achievement, as informed by learners’ initial course completion intention. In three individual MOOCs, learners completed a pre-course survey to (...)