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Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me A Match: Does Cognitive Style Make A Difference?, David Ni, Raymond L. Forbes, John S. Brent

Learning Showcase 2014

The question of how to better match students’ individual learning capabilities with instructional modalities, with a view to improving student performance, has increasingly attracted researcher and educator attention. Consistent with this trend, a team of faculty from the College of Arts, Sciences and Technology at Franklin University conducted a study that investigated whether differences between instructor and student learning styles may account for performance disparities as well as how students might perform differently as a result of their individual learning preferences. The research sample consisted of 161 college students attending a basic statistics course. Instructor and student learning styles, using …

An Innovative And Promising New Doctorate Program: Dps In Instructional Design Leadership, Yi Yang

Learning Showcase 2014

The demand for professional practitioner-oriented doctoral education has grown rapidly over the past decade. The Carnegie Foundation (Shulman, Golde, Bueschel, & Grabedian, 2006) advised that universities should offer professional practice doctorates for education to better serve the needs of professional practitioners. With the long history and strength to provide quality education for busy professionals,

Franklin University will now offer a new and innovative doctoral program, Doctor of Professional Studies in Instructional Design Leadership. This professional practice doctorate is designed to attract professionals in training, instructional design, and curriculum design to advance themselves for the highest academic degree. This program will …

Using Visual Mind Mapping To Design Academic Courses: Transitioning From Text-Based Planning Documents To Course Design Maps, Rob L. Wood

Learning Showcase 2014

The adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” (circa 1921) represents the concept that images can convey complex ideas and information more efficiently, and more effectively, than linear text alone. By contrast, much of the practice of instructional design remains bound to its “textual roots” from the 1940s. Today, most instructional design products, such as planning documents, remain text-based. The author’s instructional design practice remained textually-based for over 20 years, until his research into, and subsequent adoption of, mind mapping, a visual method of organizing complex thoughts and developing ideas. The principles of mind mapping are quite old. Porphyry …

Choosing Appropriate Technologies To Engage Millennial Students, Yi Yang, Dennis Priebe

Learning Showcase 2014

Millennial students are those who were born between years 1982 - 2003 and thus started to enter college after year 2000. Howe and Stress (2000) contend that millennial students have different attitudes and behaviors than the previous generations, such as baby boomers and Generation X. They are also referred to as Generation Y, Nexters, Digital Natives, and Generation Me. Millennial students are (1) conventionally motivated and respectful; (2) structured rule followers; (3) protected and sheltered; (4) cooperative and team-oriented; (5) confident and optimistic about their futures; (6) talented achievers (Strange, 2004). To meet their learning styles and needs, we need …

Learner Interest, Reading Comprehension And Achievement In Web-Based Learning, Maryellen Tancred

Learning Showcase 2014

The web-based learning environment provides access to education for those who are unable to be physically present in a classroom. In situations where comprehensive learner analysis is cost prohibitive, fiscally prudent guidelines for learner analysis that include learner interest and the cultural attribute of language may be feasible alternatives to omitting learner analysis altogether as an online instructional design consideration. Community colleges routinely collect student data during the college admission process, such as the COMPASS reading score, which may be useful in predicting student success in web-based courses.

Therefore, learner characteristics such as the COMPASS reading score, learner interest in …

An Investigation Of The Impact Of Open Education Resources (Oer) In Higher Education: The Case Of Franklin University And Its Use Of Oer, Lewis Chongwony

Learning Showcase 2014

Many stakeholders in the educational sector have voiced and advocated in the use of OER as a panacea to the skyrocketing costs of instructional and learning materials including textbooks, software, videos, and research articles among others. However, little effort in terms of research has been devoted to exploring and understanding the cost, benefits, and impact of OER on learning and/or education,. More specifically, a framework that can answer critical questions about the OER and its impact on learning is needed. It is against this background that this poster session will articulate the need for more robust research on the impact …

Statistical Strategies: Meeting The Needs Of Struggling Math Students Through Self-Guided Interactive Media, Nimet Alpay, Adam Reid, Caitlin Uttley, Carolyn Levally

Learning Showcase 2014

The goal of every introductory statistics course is to produce statistically literate students with an ability to make informed decisions and to think critically. This is a challenging task. In fact, the introductory statistics course at Franklin University, Math215, has had disproportionately low success rates for several years. To address these concerns, considerable revisions were made to the curriculum, addressing the challenges of students and faculty. Perhaps the most significant among those changes was the addition of a series of standalone, interactive multimedia pieces to supplement the textbook and other course materials. The development of these 28 multimedia pieces took …

Technology-Enhanced Work Examples: Techniques For Using Mobile Devices To Enhance Learning Through Teaching, Collaboration, And Sharing, Julie A. Wuebker

Learning Showcase 2014

Many principles and concepts are best explained and demonstrated through worked examples. Worked examples can take many forms from fill-in-the-blank to fully written-out from scratch. Research shows that students and faculty alike find great value in spontaneous written examples on a whiteboard or chalkboard. This spontaneity allows instructors to quickly adjust to the learners needs. In this showcase, you will see how to use technology to transfer this concept of the classroom-based spontaneous worked example to online and hybrid class environments.

學生作品集 = Student Project Gallery, Division Of Applied Science, Lingnan Institute Of Further Education 嶺南大學持續進修學院應用科學學部

LIFE Publications

嶺南大學持續進修學院 (LIFE) 應用科學學部提供有關資訊科技及創意媒體的全日制高級文憑和文憑課程。課程已獲資歷架構認可，資歷級別分別為第四及第三級，具質素保證。這些課程為學生提供專業訓練，透過不同類型的軟件，讓他們掌握電腦科學的實用知識和技巧，例如網頁和手機程式設計、電腦動畫製作、多媒體製作等，助他們於進修路上打好穩固基礎，及在相關行業上一展所長。

學生的學習態度非常認真，而且具豐富創意，於專題研習上表現出色。為了跟大家分享學生的學習成果，我們誠意將他們的作品結集出版成書 ―《學生作品集》，展示他們多方面的潛能。

Division of Applied Science in Lingnan Institute of Further Education offers full-time Higher Diploma and Diploma programmes in the discipline of IT and Creative Media. The programmes are recognized as Level 4 and Level 3 respectively under the Hong Kong Qualifications Framework in which the teaching quality remains at the highest standard. These programmes aim at providing high quality vocational education and practical knowledge and skills for students, such as website and mobile app design, production of computer animation and production of multimedia. We wish to further their studies and help pursue their careers in …