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Yunfei Hou; Amir Ghasemkhani; Hani Aldirawi; Miranda McIntyre; Montgomery Van Wart – American Journal of Distance Education, 2024
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Computer Science and STEM-related fields were among the most resistant to online courses. This is because of a perception of the need for more hands-on instruction with labs, clinicals, field studies, etc. Additionally, many STEM students had perceptions based on limited experience of an online STEM course.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Electronic Learning
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Brown, Amber L. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2014
The purpose of this project was to evaluate an online course in child development in which active learning strategies were infused. Preservice teachers taking the course were future elementary teachers seeking initial prekindergarten to sixth-grade teaching certification. Sixty-one persons were enrolled in a traditional face-to-face section of the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Online Courses, Child Development, Preservice Teachers
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Armatas, Christine; Spratt, Christine; Vincent, Andrew – American Journal of Distance Education, 2014
The Bachelor of Enterprise Learning is a newly accredited undergraduate degree where connectivist principles have been used to guide design of active, student-centered learning activities. A key feature of the curriculum is that it incorporates technology as both a source of information and a tool. Examples from this course are provided in this…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education