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The Expatriate And Transnational Distance Student Phenomenon: A Series Of Investigations, William H. Stewart Iii
The Expatriate And Transnational Distance Student Phenomenon: A Series Of Investigations, William H. Stewart Iii
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
The scale and scope of distance education has changed significantly over the last 250 years. Technology, from the early days of correspondence courses to radio, television and satellite broadcasting, has continually increased the scope, scale, and access potential to education. Distance courses and programs, however, were typically serving local, regional, or national communities. The Internet, by contrast, has transformed distance education by enabling access to education by virtually anyone, anywhere in the world. Students are no longer limited or constrained by geography or residency, yet how such potential has been conceptualized, identified, and subsequently researched has been limited by homogenous …
Electronic Field Trips For Science Engagement: The Streaming Science Model, Jamie Loizzo, Mary J. Harner, Deborah J. Weitzenkamp, Kevin Kent
Electronic Field Trips For Science Engagement: The Streaming Science Model, Jamie Loizzo, Mary J. Harner, Deborah J. Weitzenkamp, Kevin Kent
Journal of Applied Communications
While institutions of higher education work to engage PK-12 youth in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) concepts and careers via in-person programming, PK-12 teachers and students face many logistical and access constraints for physically traveling to sites off of school grounds during the school day. Throughout the years, electronic field trips (EFTs) have offered a digital way for schools to engage in meaningful ways with museums, parks, laboratories, and field research sites. In order for EFTs to be effective, they should be cost effective and created collaboratively with teachers, students, subject matter experts, and instructional design and communication professionals. …
Alayne Thorpe, Alayne Thorpe
Alayne Thorpe, Alayne Thorpe
Spring 2019
“Education is a sacred profession where a good and caring teacher can change a student’s life,” reflects Alayne Thorpe, PhD, dean of the School of Distance Education & International Partnerships and graduate dean. Dean Thorpe is one of the individuals on campus who makes the love of education infectious. Her passion, her creativity and her energy consistently invite students and colleagues to think in new ways and discover with excitement what knowledge in a faith environment can mean. So I want to share with you Alayne’s story, what inspires her passion for Adventist higher education and why she is part …
And Finally... Course Quality Or Instructional Quality, Michael Simonson
And Finally... Course Quality Or Instructional Quality, Michael Simonson
Faculty Articles
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Quality has become a popular word in distance education literature. Quality this, and quality that, all demanding that distance education, online learning, or virtual schooling must “have” something called quality— most often course quality.
And Finally … Open Access, Michael Simonson
And Finally … Open Access, Michael Simonson
Faculty Articles
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Open Access—the idea that scholarly literature should be free and easily available to read online to anyone with an interest. We distance educators naturally embrace the idea of having readily available content that can be used in courses in a format that is easy to use and access. According to the web location Opensource.com there are two different versions of open access—libre and gratis.
And Finally … Telepresence—New Or ?, Michael Simonson
And Finally … Telepresence—New Or ?, Michael Simonson
Faculty Articles
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Telepresence is most simply defined as the virtual presence of a speaker who is at a distance. More sophisticated definitions emphasize the use of technologies that allow a videoconference viewer to feel as if distant participants are present.
Setting The Pace: Examining Cognitive Processing In Mooc Discussion Forums With Automatic Text Analysis, Robert L. Moore, Kevin M. Oliver, Chuang Wang
Setting The Pace: Examining Cognitive Processing In Mooc Discussion Forums With Automatic Text Analysis, Robert L. Moore, Kevin M. Oliver, Chuang Wang
STEMPS Faculty Publications
Learning analytics focuses on extracting meaning from large amounts of data. One of the largest datasets in education comes from Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that typically feature enrollments in the tens of thousands. Analyzing MOOC discussion forums presents logistical issues, resulting chiefly from the size of the dataset, which can create challenges for understanding and adequately describing student behaviors. Utilizing automatic text analysis, this study built a hierarchical linear model that examines the influence of the pacing condition of a massive open online course (MOOC), whether it is self-paced or instructor-paced, on the demonstration of cognitive processing in a …