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Using Online Education To Address The Challenges Of Small, Multigrade Schools, Lori Imasiku, Michael Gayle, Michelle Bacchiocchi, Melanie Kartik
Using Online Education To Address The Challenges Of Small, Multigrade Schools, Lori Imasiku, Michael Gayle, Michelle Bacchiocchi, Melanie Kartik
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Strategies To Maximize Academic Integrity In Online Education, Glynis Bradfield, Ray Mcallister
Strategies To Maximize Academic Integrity In Online Education, Glynis Bradfield, Ray Mcallister
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Online Learning: Some Strategies For Success, Glynis M. Bradfield
Online Learning: Some Strategies For Success, Glynis M. Bradfield
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The COVID-19 pandemic catapulted all levels of education into varied changes in delivery systems, including remote and e-learning. Both teachers and students are challenged to reflect and train on how online and face-to-face education differ in order to use online pedagogy and digital tools effectively
Strategies To Assist Distance Doctoral Students In Completing Their Dissertations, Janine M. Lim, Duane Covrig, Shirley Freed, Becky De Oliveira, Mordekai Ochieng Ongo, Isadore Newman, Isadore Newman Phd
Strategies To Assist Distance Doctoral Students In Completing Their Dissertations, Janine M. Lim, Duane Covrig, Shirley Freed, Becky De Oliveira, Mordekai Ochieng Ongo, Isadore Newman, Isadore Newman Phd
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Completing doctoral dissertations is difficult work and may be harder for distance students physically separated from institutional and collegial supports. Inability to complete independent research contributes to doctoral student attrition. Factors impacting completion include institutional factors, student characteristics, and supervisory arrangements (Manathunga, 2005). This paper shares proactive strategies used by a Midwestern university in the United States to support distance doctoral students. Strategies and technology tools are described that (a) cultivate a shared culture of responsibility and commitment, (b) increase effective communication between researchers, and (c) grow departmental and institutional services and technologies for faculty and students. This paper suggests …
Preparing For College & Career, Glynis M. Bradfield, Keri Conwell, Lorin Koch
Preparing For College & Career, Glynis M. Bradfield, Keri Conwell, Lorin Koch
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Why a free online course on preparing for college and career?
• Andrews University Precollege Service: too little too late
• NAD Academies reduce counseling with downsizing
• No integrative course from an Adventist perspective
• Lack of Adventist career & college readiness lessons
Flipping Distance Student Services Through Technology-Mediated Orientation And Advising, Glynis M. Bradfield
Flipping Distance Student Services Through Technology-Mediated Orientation And Advising, Glynis M. Bradfield
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Developing online student services to provide the level of support expected in traditional higher education can be challenging. This session will explore one private university’s journey through the development of a course to prepare students to maximize their personal growth in the online learning environment. Traditional advising centers on a student meeting with an advisor to discuss questions or concerns about their study experience. Since Bergmann and Sams first experimented with recording their high school science lectures in 2007, discovering how it saved them reteaching time, increased student access to foundational knowledge and freed class time for interactive learning, this …
The Added Value Of Conducting Learning Design Meeting To The Online Course Development Process, Denise Shaver
The Added Value Of Conducting Learning Design Meeting To The Online Course Development Process, Denise Shaver
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Do you find it challenging to have discussions with instructors about designing online courses and best practices in teaching? This article will highlight key components to conducting effective Learning Design Meetings. It outlines techniques used by our institution in engaging faculty in a discussion regarding better use of Learning Management Systems (LMS), storyboard layout, learning outcomes, student engagement, learning activities, formal assessments, and content delivery. Learning Design meetings have proven to be a compelling manner of decreasing faculty resistance while exposing instructors to best practices in pedagogy, andragogy, and online learning. Instructional Designers (IDs), Instructional Facilitators (IFs), and Course Authors …
The Relationship Between Successful Completion And Sequential Movement In Self-Paced Distance Courses, Janine M. Lim
The Relationship Between Successful Completion And Sequential Movement In Self-Paced Distance Courses, Janine M. Lim
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A course design question for self-paced courses includes whether or not technological measures should be used in course design to force students to follow the sequence intended by the course author. This study examined learner behavior to understand whether the sequence of student assignment submissions in a self-paced distance course is related to successful completion of the course. The study included 543 students in 89 different general education courses at a private university in the United States during a two year period. Results indicate that students who completed at least one assignment or exam out of the intended sequence of …