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Using Yellowdig In Marketing Courses: An Analysis Of Individual Contributions And Social Interactions In Online Classroom Communities And Their Impact On Student Learning And Engagement, Mary C. Martin Ph.D., Michael J. Martin Ph.D., Andrew P. Feldstein Dps
Using Yellowdig In Marketing Courses: An Analysis Of Individual Contributions And Social Interactions In Online Classroom Communities And Their Impact On Student Learning And Engagement, Mary C. Martin Ph.D., Michael J. Martin Ph.D., Andrew P. Feldstein Dps
TILT Faculty Publications
Students in four marketing classes participated in a pilot program where they used Yellowdig in the classroom. Yellowdig is a private network for collaboration targeted towards educational institutions to increase student engagement. Yellowdig seeks to engage students using a broad array of resources including videos, news articles, blogs and more. It offers a Facebook-like experience (a platform the majority of students are very familiar with) for ease of use. In the classes, Yellowdig was used for two purposes: as a way to create a community inside and outside of the classroom and as a means by which students create and …
A Preliminary Study: Application Of Quality Matters Standard 5 (Course Activities And Learner Interaction) To Development Of An Online Business Management Course, James G. Ward Ed.D., Yaprak Dalat Ward Ed.D., Linda A
A Preliminary Study: Application Of Quality Matters Standard 5 (Course Activities And Learner Interaction) To Development Of An Online Business Management Course, James G. Ward Ed.D., Yaprak Dalat Ward Ed.D., Linda A
Applied Business Faculty Publications
Quality Matters (Quality Matters [QM] Higher Education Rubric Workbook, 2014) is a national benchmark for online course design, and serves as a continuous improvement model for assuring quality of online courses through a faculty review process. QM is also described as “a faculty-centered, peer review process that is designed to certify the quality of online and blended course” (QM Higher Education Rubric Workbook, para 1). QM has eight research based rubric areas: “1) Course Overview and Introductions; 2) Learning Objectives or Competencies; 3) Assessment and Measurement; 4) Instructional Materials; 5) Course Activities and Learner Interaction; 6) Courses Technology; 7) Learner …
Expanding Transnational Frames Into Composition Studies: Revising The Rhetoric And Writing Minor At The American University In Cairo, James P. Austin
Expanding Transnational Frames Into Composition Studies: Revising The Rhetoric And Writing Minor At The American University In Cairo, James P. Austin
English Faculty Publications
This chapter examines U.S.-based approaches to curricular revision of the Rhetoric and Writing Minor at the American University in Cairo (AUC) through analysis of faculty interviews and relevant artifacts. Through this analysis, and consideration of AUC’s development in the context of changes in Egypt, the chapter argues that U.S.-based curricular approaches satisfied various local needs among AUC’s writing faculty and students. These findings complicate claims within international composition studies, which are concerned with non-reflective export of U.S. linguistic, pedagogical and program models into international sites. This chapter calls for expanding the perspective of U.S.-based approaches to composition studies to include …