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Managing Boundaries in the Web 2.0 Classroom
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McEwan, Bree – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
This chapter explores the use of social media in the higher education classroom highlighting potential issues for student-faculty boundary management and providing suggestions for praxis. Social media has captured the attention of educators and provides exciting new ways to engage students in course material. However, instructors and students…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship, Internet, Web 2.0 Technologies
Online Learning
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Perry, Edward H.; Pilati, Michelle L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Distance education, which began as correspondence courses in the nineteenth century and grew into educational television during the twentieth century, evolved into learning on the Web by the mid-1990s. Accompanying the rise in online learning has been a similar rise in organizations and publications dedicated to serving the needs of online…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses
Cyberphilosophy, Learning Cells, and Distance Education.
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Cooper, Wesley – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
Describes the use of learning cells to facilitate Socratic-like discussion and discusses how they can be adapted to the Internet. (EV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Distance Education
Inquiry-Based Learning with the Net: Opportunities and Challenges
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Kanuka, Heather – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2006
Our role as teachers in universities should not be to simply keep up-to-date with new technologies; rather, we should be leaders in the use of new and emerging technologies to effectively meet the changing needs of learners. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Professional Development, Inquiry, Technology Integration
Principles of Effective Teaching in the Online Classroom. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
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Weiss, Renee E., Ed.; Knowlton, Dave S., Ed.; Speck, Bruce W., Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
This volume highlights the challenges that electronic classrooms pose to faculty and students. The papers discuss both the pedagogy and the design of online courses. The 11 papers include: (1) "A Theoretical Framework for the Online Classroom: A Defense and Delineation of a Student-Centered Pedagogy" (Dave S. Knowlton); (2)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Faculty, College Students, Computer Uses in Education
Online Evaluations of Teaching: An Examination of Current Practice and Considerations for the Future
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Ballantyne, Christina – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
As the World Wide Web becomes an integral part of higher education, universities must determine the viability of using the Internet for their student evaluation systems. This chapter highlights important online-student-rating issues raised in this volume and in other research through a case study of Murdoch University's (Perth, Australia) online…
Descriptors: Internet, Student Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Higher Education
Using Technology in Faculty Development: Practical Examples.
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Gillespie, Kay Herr – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Describes programs at diverse institutions across the country that use technology innovatively for faculty development. Programs include instructional development education, Internet use for on-line instruction, Web site use to gather student feedback on instructional techniques, a Web site as an information source for faculty and teaching…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction, Computer Uses in Education