[PDF] Top 20 A case study of student participation in discussion in an online higher education course

... The findings conceming students' message posting were (a) overall message posting was low and the students were reluctant to post messages in discussions; (b) there were individual dif[r] ... See full document

... the course is operational, the teaching role includes a number of public interactive strategies to cultivate an environment conducive to interactive learning and encouraging of student ...pre-active ... See full document

... to participation by minority groups in education (such as Indigenous communities), many of these undertakings fail to adequately articulate and consider the importance of cultural factors and how such ... See full document

... grants and work-study are more effective in promoting persistence than loans and other forms of aid because (1) they provide a financial benefit and (2) students make contact with other people on campus, ... See full document

... the course evaluation questionnaire via the link from the WordPress ...promote discussion during subsequent focus group interviews, which all registrants were invited to attend in Blackboard ...in ... See full document

... This study investigates the contribution of asynchronous, online discussion forums to student learning in an Australian, online postgraduate ...The study of online forums ... See full document

... This study was undertaken within a specific context of a regional university in Australia which has a strong market position in ‘traditional’ distance education within the higher education ... See full document

... The discussion regarding OER has increasingly evolved to be one of OEP (Open Educational Practices) in which new approaches to delivery, curriculum development, pedagogy and sustainable business continue to ... See full document

... a study of university students that found mild computer phobia among undergraduates was as high as 50%, and 42% of students over the age of 35 did experience major stress and anxiety at having to access ... See full document

... online education. The first role includes reviewing the static course content provided by the school to verify that the content is correct and up to ...to discussion questions as they feel is ... See full document

... in student online activity with the addition of Facebook across the unit become even more pronounced ...of student activity being more evenly spread across the whole study period, the addition ... See full document

... Online discussion boards are now a common learning strategy for many university ...for participation for distance education students and allowed students across national borders to become ... See full document

... Online discussion boards have created a forum for distance education students in geographically dispersed locations to interact with one another and to develop social learning ...Indeed, ... See full document

... their participation in HE in recent ...their participation in ...the case of parents and those engaging in part-time study with job responsibilities (Davies & Williams, ...Irish ... See full document

...  Cooperative / collaborative task based forums in which learners were expected to work in small teams in order to complete an assignment, e.g. Lockhorst et al [47] and Kear [35], with formative and often summative ... See full document

... of course materials by enhancing the capability of these mate- rials through four main features: direct access by keyword browsing, direct access by keyword searching, gaining a quick overview, and easy access to ... See full document

... the discussion forums were of little use to the Department K staff, and thus the VLE was purely used as a course administration ...the online evaluation of modules was simply considered as an ... See full document

... of online failure at a suburban community college in ...empirical study found that learner autonomy, which has been noted as a forecaster of success in an online course (Lim & Kim, 2003), ... See full document

... considers online participation in higher education decision-making using the MyUniversity EU project as a case ...The study uses data collection methods from across the ... See full document

... this study focused its lenses on a private higher education institution (HEI) ran by a religious ...university’s student population and ...while education and communication attract more ... See full document