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Download full textJames Brunton; Mark Brown; Eamon Costello; Orna Farrell – Student Success, 2019
This practice report discusses the development of the Head Start Online MOOC. This initiative targeted flexible learners, defined as adults engaged in part-time or online distance learning, during the initial stages of the study life-cycle. Drawing on the literature, the experiences of major international Online and Distance Learning (ODL)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Nontraditional Students, MOOCs
Direct linkBeckmann, Elizabeth A. – Distance Education, 2010
Many careers involve mobile lifestyles, yet require specialised postgraduate qualifications for career progression. Mobile technologies offer new opportunities by providing more choice in when, where, and how students learn. Experiences in an Australian postgraduate development studies program illustrate the choices. Three key issues are explored:…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
Shimoni, Rena; Barrington, Gail; Wilde, Russ; Henwood, Scott – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Two interrelated studies were undertaken to assist Alberta post-secondary institutions with meeting challenges associated with providing services to diverse distributed students that are of similar quality to services provided to traditional classroom students. The first study identified and assessed best practices in distributed learning; the…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Special Needs Students, Student Diversity, Best Practices
Erling, Elizabeth J.; Richardson, John T. E. – Assessing Writing, 2010
Measuring the Academic Skills of University Students is a procedure developed in the 1990s at the University of Sydney's Language Centre to identify students in need of academic writing development by assessing examples of their written work against five criteria. This paper reviews the literature relating to the development of the procedure with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Evaluation, Assignments, Psychometrics
Woolfe, Ray; And Others – 1987
Educational provision for adults (including counseling) only makes sense when viewed from a developmental life setting. Counselors working with adults must be aware of the adult life cycle as a process of continuing change and development. They must also realize that each individual life is lived through an opportunity structure. In other words,…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Continuing Education
Houston Community College System, Office of Institutional Research, 2012
The Houston Community College (HCC) 2011-2012 Fact Book provides statistical information about the college district. It is important for the reader to be aware that data presented in this publication may differ slightly from statistics found in other district reports. Such variances may result from differences methodology including the source of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Tables (Data), Graphs, Academic Achievement
Rienties, Bart; Kaper, Wolter; Struyven, Katrien; Tempelaar, Dirk; van Gastel, Leendert; Vrancken, Sanne; Jasinska, Magdalena; Virgailaite-Meckauskaite, Egle – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
An increasing number of higher educational institutes are offering remedial, bridging, preparatory or transitional courses in a blended and online format to remediate and enhance students' knowledge and skills. This article addresses how teachers and institutes design and implement these courses. The descriptions of transitional courses were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Course Descriptions, Academic Support Services
Johnson, E. Marcia; Cowie, Bronwen; De Lange, Willem; Falloon, Garry; Hight, Craig; Khoo, Elaine – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
In response to recent social, economic, and pedagogical challenges to tertiary-level teaching and learning, universities are increasingly investigating and adopting e-learning as a way to engage and motivate students. This paper reports on the first year of a two-year (2009-2010) qualitative multiple case study research project in New Zealand.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Adoption (Ideas), Program Implementation
Houston Community College System, Office of Institutional Research, 2009
The Houston Community College (HCC) 2008-2009 Fact Book provides statistical information about the college district. It is important for the reader to be aware that data presented in this publication may differ slightly from statistics found in other district reports. Such variances may result from differences in the source of information used…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Tables (Data), Graphs, Academic Achievement
