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Best Instructional Practices For Distance Education: A Meta-Analysis, Robin Michael Roberts
Best Instructional Practices For Distance Education: A Meta-Analysis, Robin Michael Roberts
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Recent meta-analyses on the efficacy of distance education have concluded that no significant difference exists between face-to-face and distance education. At the same time, these meta-analyses noted that considerable heterogeneity existed between the individual studies used in the meta-analyses. Investigation of moderators responsible for that heterogeneity suggested that four things other than media delivery were primarily responsible for the majority of variation between study outcomes: methodological quality, instructor involvement, type of interaction, instructional methods and time-on-task. A comparative meta-analysis was performed to further investigate these moderators. Methodological quality, maturational differences in students and any undetermined media effects were controlled for …
Poster Presentations As A Teaching Strategy In Web-Based Courses, Beverly Siegrist, Dawn M. Garrett-Wright Ph.D. (C), Rn, Cathy H. Abell
Poster Presentations As A Teaching Strategy In Web-Based Courses, Beverly Siegrist, Dawn M. Garrett-Wright Ph.D. (C), Rn, Cathy H. Abell
Nursing Faculty Publications
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Avatars, Media Usage, And The Linkages To E-Learning Effectiveness, Jason P. Royals
Avatars, Media Usage, And The Linkages To E-Learning Effectiveness, Jason P. Royals
Theses and Dissertations
A fast-growing trend in e-learning environments is the investment in avatar technology to deliver an engaging and interesting learning experience. E-learning itself has limited and inconsistent research into its learning effectiveness, and this is especially true for innovative avatar instructional methods. The purpose of this research was to develop a generalizable theory that can be used to assess the learning effectiveness of various media types used in e-learning environments. A research model was developed and used to study a U.S. Air Force Squadron Officer School Distance Learning program that used avatar, video, audio, and text-based scenarios to reinforce learning objectives. …