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The University of Illinois at Springfield and the Institute of Technology, Sligo Ireland are building a model of inter-institutional online class collaborations using the preview version of Google Wave. In test waves during the fall semester of 2009, the two universities joined students in a multi-week collaboration on the topic of Internet impact on energy sustainability perceptions in Europe and...
The paper considers how technology is currently affecting the Business School world, and seeks to draw out some of the implications and ramifications that Business School administrators and educationalists should bear in mind. The paper starts out by describing a particular approach to teaching pioneered by the Open University Business School, contrasting it with the more traditional approach generally...
For higher education to remain innovative and viable in the future, factors facilitating and inhibiting online education must be closely examined and addressed. Higher education's approaches to the phenomenon of online learning reveal much about its ability to be proactive in the face of significant societal change. Online learning is a dynamic process that includes the interaction of administrators,...
Information Communication Technologies (ICT) such as podcasting have opened new possibilities for academe. For an instructor it means more tools to use in their organization of instruction; for students, a greater motivation to learn free of the time and space restraints posed by the typical classroom's walls and strict schedule; and for an educational institution it means a potential marketing opportunity...
The author of the article describes his experience with the usage of a decision-making game via Internet in extramural teaching of logistics. The article discusses also the issues of teamwork with the use of Internet communication technologies, student involvement in this form of distance learning as well as the problem of evaluating students working in groups.
Together with the development of computerization and e-teaching, e-tests have become more popular. Their enthusiast assume that e-quizzes are the requirement of current times, while their opponents state that this type of assessment evaluates only the final score and discounts the track of reasoning of the person taking the test. The article presents author's stand on the most popular myths concerning...
In recent years there can be observed a constant development of the Internet industry, in which outsourcing is gaining significance. The enterprises in this branch are very diversified. On the one hand there exist many single owner-operator microenterprises on the market whereas on the other hand there are also huge international corporations. Both of the types need a support in different areas of...
The paper presents the authors' experiences in modeling University's Distance Education Center. The authors conducted analyses, which brought interesting observations in the form of conceptual, business and structural models of organizational entity. Those models may also be useful for other universities' academic employees responsible for similar activities.
One of the most persistent issues facing educational institutions that offer online programs is whether a given online student is actually the one who registered for the online course . The article disccusses a technology-based system using personal questions to verify the identity of online students, which was implemented and field tested by a U.S. University.
The use of new media has enabled broad access to educational environments creating innovative opportunities for learning and teaching. Experiential learning provides a particularly important educational framework when facilitated through the use of the Internet to engage geographically dispersed students as they participate in career education. This approach to facilitating learning has become increasingly...
Before applying a U.S.-based online training program to Canadian higher learning faculty, a review of the status of e-learning in Canada was conducted. The review finds Canada as among the world's most developed and industrialized countries. Yet, in a ranking by the International Telecommunication Union, Canada slipped downward causing concern, dispute, and mixed interpretation. Existing national...
This article addresses the question of whether specific social media applications will promote student engagement and learning in higher education. After a justification of social media is given and an introduction about terminology, a brief overview will highlight 50 years of technology and education theoretical trends that show their convergence in constructivism, which is followed by examples of...
The article describes the interpretation of the term "distance learning" in humanities and social sciences. The author notes that this phenomenon has more than a dozen definitions, and presents a classification of terms used in modern research and practice. Classification is based on possible approaches to learning process.
Online teaching and learning has grown exponentially in the past decade which has transformed higher education globally. Service learning is an experiential, educational activity that offers credit to student participants and a service to community-based stakeholders. It has the potential for greater depth and breadth of experience as it often involves social, cultural, and other aspects of the community...
The basis of e-learning are proper intellectual resources supported by IT resources. Yet, it is the logistics of online classes, which influences their quality and attractiveness. The paper presents selected practical solutions for supporting e-teaching, which have been already tested as they were implemented few years ago at the Wrocław University of Technology and Czestochowa University of Technology.
Participation in professional development activities contributes to both effectiveness and productivity among postsecondary faculty members, as well as enables them to assist institutions to sustain the means to continuously innovate, for example, as they integrate emerging technologies in curricula and instruction. A broad continuum of program alternatives combines to facilitate a high level of interaction,...
‘Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational’ Objectives has been a mainstay of educational theory for over fifty years. In 2001 the original taxonomy was revised. This article uses Bloom's revised framework to design small groups in online classes. The author draws on his extensive experience in using small groups in face-to-face classes as well as fifteen years of experience with small groups in a variety of...
The starting point for article is the question: Is there something in that exchange between a single caring professor and motivated student that, while impossible to assess, measure or digitize, is at the very heart of what a university tries to be? The authors discuss the concept of Massively Open Online Classes in the context of Gartner Hype Cycle and explore MOOC ethical implications. The aim of...
Thanks to the growth and development of online programs, higher education is more accessible to prospective students regardless of where they live. The sophistication of online courses has grown over the past decade largely due to the abundance of research. Ongoing research propelled the development of the Garrison, Anderson, and Archer Community of Inquiry (CoI) Model which described the interaction...
One of education's defining features is that it exists to a large extent in a constant state of tension between stasis and change. Education is an inherently conservative institution in many ways, for instance regarding its function of transmitting preserved societal knowledge and its legendary ability to resist rapid change. At the same time, educational institutions are one of society's main ways...
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