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Download full textYin, Shuangxu; Kawachi, Paul – Open Praxis, 2013
This paper explores and presents new data on how to improve open access in distance education through using prior learning assessments. Broadly there are three types of prior learning assessment (PLAR): Type-1 for prospective students to be allowed to register for a course; Type-2 for current students to avoid duplicating work-load to gain…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Access to Education, Open Education, Distance Education
Direct linkSlagter van Tryon, Patricia J.; Bishop, M. J. – Distance Education, 2012
Learners' feelings of social connectedness may be a key factor in predicting online course success. However, students attempting to perceive and process the social context in online courses often find themselves engaging in unfamiliar, technology-mediated communication channels. While there have been several empirically based strategies published…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Attitudes, Social Environment, Research Tools
Kostaras, N.; Xenos, M.; Skodras, A. N. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
This paper presents the usability evaluation of a digital systems laboratory class offered to distance-learning students. It details the way in which students can participate remotely in such a laboratory, the methodology employed in the usability assessment of the laboratory infrastructure (hardware and software), and also outlines the main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Laboratories, Pilot Projects
Barmby, Patrick; Coe, Robert – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, 2004
Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI), with funding from Gatsby Technical Education Projects (GTEP), ran the "Enabling Access to Further Mathematics" project from 2000 to 2003. This pilot project was designed to provide AS- and A-level students with additional opportunities to study Further Mathematics, through the use of …
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Distance Education, Pilot Projects, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedButterworth, Christine; Edwards, Richard – Open Learning, 1993
Discusses the Assessment of Prior Learning (APL) and describes a pilot project at the Open University (United Kingdom) that introduced credit for APL in one course. Steps in the assessment process are outlined, including constructing a student portfolio; and workload, staff development, and costs are considered. (LRW)
Descriptors: College Credits, Costs, Distance Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedLauzon, A. C. – American Journal of Distance Education, 1992
Reviews the concept of learning in distance education; explains a model that lays the conceptual foundation for successfully integrating computer-based instruction with computer conferencing for interactive distance delivery; describes a pilot project at the University of Guelph that used the model; and discusses the project's evaluation. (21…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Powers, Susan M.; Davis, Michaeleen; Torrence, Eileen – 1999
This pilot study explores the perceptions of distance education students of their classroom environment using the College/University Classroom Environment Inventory (CUCEI), a traditional classroom assessment tool. The CUCEI has seven scales that cover the areas of personalization, involvement, student cohesiveness, satisfaction, task orientation,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Evaluation, Distance Education
Champagne, Matthew V. – 1998
This paper focuses on the Interactive and Distance Education Assessment (IDEA) laboratory, an assessment system developed by psychology students and faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York) that incorporated learning styles, teaching styles, and other measures of individual difference into the evaluation of interactive and distance…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Networks
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
