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Undergraduate Students’ Critical Online Reasoning
To successfully learn using open Internet resources, students must be able to critically search, evaluate and select online information, and verify sources. Defined as critical online reasoning (COR), this construct is operationalized on two levels in our study: (1) the … Continue reading
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Face-to-face or face-to-screen? Undergraduates’ opinions and test performance in classroom vs. online learning
As electronic communication becomes increasingly common, and as students juggle study, work, and family life, many universities are offering their students more flexible learning opportunities. Classes once delivered face-to-face are often replaced by online activities and discussions. However, there is … Continue reading
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Studying a course online? Tips to get yourself tech ready
Engaging students in online content is easier said than done. Research shows results can improve with the use of techniques such as shortening content and making it more focused, and establishing rapport between the lecturer and students. Students’ views on … Continue reading
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How Video Production Affects Student Engagement
Videos are a widely-used kind of resource for online learning. This paper presents an empirical study of how video production decisions affect student engagement in online educational videos. To our knowledge, ours is the largest-scale study of video engagement to date, using data from … Continue reading
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A New Pedagogy is Emerging … and Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor
There are several separate factors at work here. The first is the continuing development of new knowledge, making it difficult to compress all that learners need to know within the limited time span of a post-secondary course or program. This … Continue reading
Preparing for the Digital University
A review of the history and current state of distance, blended, and online learning. The articles presented in this report provide an overview of research literature in: • Distance education • Blended learning • Online learning • Credentialing • MOOC … Continue reading
Learning Innovation: A Framework for Transformation
Learning with and through technological enhancements operates in a landscape unrecognisable only a few years ago. Focussing on Higher Education, this article shows how to capture and model complex strategic processes that will move the potential of online and blended … Continue reading
Online Learning in Sociocultural Context
Proponents of online learning claim that it can transform education by promoting student-centered communication, collaboration, and inquiry. Yet these claims must be weighed against the actual implementation of online learning, which is influenced by a broad range of sociocultural factors. … Continue reading
Assuring Quality in Online Education: Practices and Processes
Online distance education continues to grow at a fast pace, even outpacing the overall growth of U.S. higher education. Demands for quality are coming from all shareholders involved. As if caught by surprise, a patchwork response to quality is often … Continue reading
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LOOC – local open online course
As the name suggests, LOOC is a localized form of a MOOC – or massive open online course. The LOOC is open to all members of the UBC community who have a Campus Wide Login. Is entirely online and self-paced, … Continue reading
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