mercredi 22 février 2012 par Martha Gabriel, Barbara Campbell, Sean Wiebe, Ronald J MacDonald, Alexander McAuley
A growing literature suggests that there is a disjuncture between the instructional practices of the education system and the student body it is expected to serve, particularly with respect to the roles of digital technologies. Based on surveys and focus group interviews of first-year students (...)
mercredi 22 février 2012 par Neil R. Hogan, Connie K. Varnhagen
Undergraduates use a wide range of information resources for academic and nonacademic purposes, including web sites that range from credible, peer reviewed, online journal sites, to biased and inaccurate promotional web sites. Students are taught basic critical appraisal skills, but do they (...)
mercredi 22 février 2012 par Lorraine Carter, Vincent Salyers, Aroha Page, Lynda Williams, Liz Albl, Clarence Hofsink
This paper describes a faculty development model called the highly relevant mentoring (HRM) model; the model includes a framework as well as some practical strategies for meeting the professional development needs of faculty who teach web-based courses. The paper further emphasizes the need for (…)
mercredi 22 février 2012 par Cheng-Chang (Sam) Pan
This study is intended to explore a complementary relationship between instructional systems design (ISD) and project management in an attempt to build a plausible case for integrating project management as a distinct course in the core of the graduate instructional systems design programs. It (...)
mardi 21 février 2012 par Martine Pellerin, Carlos Soler Montes
The study explores the effectiveness of the implementation of blended teaching (BT) by combining the Spanish online resource Aula Virtual de Español (AVE) with the face-to-face (F2F) delivery approach in second language Spanish programs in two high schools in Alberta, Canada. Findings (...)
The purpose of this study was to examine the progress of a class of third- and fourth-year undergraduate science students as they attempted to create a knowledge building community in a blended or hybrid science education class. The research sought to examine this process through analyses of (...)