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Adaptation Of Art History Courses To The Online Environment: Problems And Perspectives, Anahit Ter-Stepanian
Adaptation Of Art History Courses To The Online Environment: Problems And Perspectives, Anahit Ter-Stepanian
Art & Design Faculty Publications
Distance learning poses new problems for instructors and changes the traditional understanding of instructional design. The adaptation of traditional, face-to-face courses to asynchronous online format entails redefining pedagogical practices and presents new challenges for designers and instructors resulting from the lack of direct student-instructor interaction. This is particularly pertinent in art history courses, where critical thinking, group discussions, critiquing works of art as well as assessment methods heavily rely on student’s physical presence in the classroom. Faculty members are skeptical of the effectiveness of distance learning and voice their concerns. The paper questions whether it is possible to ensure students’ …
Today’S Student And Virtual Schooling: The Reality, The Challenges, The Promise, Michael K. Barbour
Today’S Student And Virtual Schooling: The Reality, The Challenges, The Promise, Michael K. Barbour
Education Faculty Publications
Introduction:
In 2008 I was approached to deliver a keynote address at the biennial conference of the Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ) in Wellington on the topic of today’s student and K–12 distance education. Several months ago, Mark Nichols asked me if I would be interested in putting some of the ideas that I discussed as a part of that August 2008 presentation into a manuscript for the Journal of Distance Learning. This paper represents my best efforts to summarise and expand on those ideas.
As in my 2008 keynote, I want to discuss three main themes …
Case Study Of Connected Knowing In An Online Learning Environment, Jaya Kannan, John Laurence Miller
Case Study Of Connected Knowing In An Online Learning Environment, Jaya Kannan, John Laurence Miller
CTL Publications
This paper reports a single-subject case study designed to investigate the role of group discussion in student learning. The group discussion took the form of contributions to a series of online discussion boards. And our analysis focuses on the contribution of one group member. We argue that this individual came to serve as a catalyst to learning for many group members because of the concomitant roles that she came to occupy.