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2014

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Student-Directed Blended Learning With Facebook Groups And Streaming Media: Media In Asia At Furman University, Tami Blumenfield Nov 2014

Student-Directed Blended Learning With Facebook Groups And Streaming Media: Media In Asia At Furman University, Tami Blumenfield

Tami Blumenfield

Furman University prizes itself on being an engaged learning, liberal arts institution with extensive faculty-student interaction. 96% of students live on campus, leading some to question whether reducing face-to-face instructional time makes any sense pedagogically. Coming from a different institution that encouraged faculty to create hybrid courses, and seeing the creativity and freedom that offered, I wanted to experiment with the format in this new institutional environment. Would it still be effective? What adaptations would be necessary, and how would students react to this different course format? In Fall 2013, I taught a carefully designed blended learning course that met …

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Google Glass In Education, Sivakumar R Jun 2014

Google Glass In Education, Sivakumar R

Sivakumar Ramaraj

Google Glass increases the flexibility of delivery of education so that learners can access knowledge anytime and from anywhere. It can influence the way students are taught and how they learn as now the processes are learner driven and not by teachers. This in turn would better prepare the learners for lifelong learning as well as to improve the quality of learning.

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Master Of Education (M.Ed.) Research Proposal - Exploring The Potential Of Implementing E-Learning Practices At The University Of Guyana, Kerwin A. Livingstone Mar 2014

Master Of Education (M.Ed.) Research Proposal - Exploring The Potential Of Implementing E-Learning Practices At The University Of Guyana, Kerwin A. Livingstone

Kerwin A. Livingstone

The University of Guyana (UG), up to the present time, continues to embrace a traditional learning and teaching approach, where all educational practices, to a great degree, are outdated. Face to face (F2F) contact is the only mode of instructional delivery. Considering the afore-mentioned, the present study focuses on Exploring the potential of implementing E-Learning practices at the University of Guyana. To this end, the theoretical and conceptual foundation of this study hinge on literature from the theories of (1) Constructivism [Social Constructivism], (2) Transactional Distance [Independence and Autonomy; Interaction and Communication] and, (3) Connectivism, and literature from other important …

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Building Innovation : Learning With Technologies, Kathryn Moyle Mar 2014

Building Innovation : Learning With Technologies, Kathryn Moyle

Professor Kathryn Moyle (consultant)

AER 56 explores national and international policy priorities for building students' innovation capabilities through information and communication technologies (ICT) in Australian schools. Section 1 sets out the Australian policy context for digital education and highlights some of the emerging challenges. It provides an overview of two Australian school education policy priorities: that of how to meaningfully include technologies into teaching and learning; and how to build innovation capabilities in students. Section 2 critically examines the education and economic policy contexts for digital education in Australia, their intersections with international economic priorities, and the role of commercial technologies markets in schools. …

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Learning Styles And Satisfaction In Distance Education, Darren C. Wu Dec 2013

Learning Styles And Satisfaction In Distance Education, Darren C. Wu

Darren Wu

Although complex, controversial, and contradicting, learning styles is highly influential. Distance education (DE) has experienced tremendous growth in the last few decades. The popularity of learning styles and DE necessitates research. This correlational research study was conducted to determine if there is any evidence to incorporate learning styles in DE. The following is the research question for this study. Are students' learning styles based on the visual, auditory, tactile model correlated to satisfaction of course format in an online undergraduate course? The participants of this study were students enrolled in three sections of the Contemporary Worldviews course at a private …

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