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Download full textCunningham, Una – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This study examines what happens when online and campus students participate in real time in the same campus classroom. Before this study, postgraduate students studying online in a course intended primarily as professional development for language educators were taking the course through reading the course literature including assigned articles,…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Synchronous Communication, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
Yamagata-Lynch, Lisa C. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
In this article I will share a qualitative self-study about a 15-week blended 100% online graduate level course facilitated through synchronous meetings on Blackboard Collaborate and asynchronous discussions on Blackboard. I taught the course at the University of Tennessee (UT) during the spring 2012 semester and the course topic was online…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Synchronous Communication
Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Kongcharoen, Chaknarin; Ghinea, Gheorghita – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Recently, various computer networking courses have included additional laboratory classes in order to enhance students' learning achievement. However, these classes need to establish a suitable laboratory where each student can connect network devices to configure and test functions within different network topologies. In this case, the Linux…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Virtual Classrooms
Kuo, Yu-Chun; Walker, Andrew E.; Belland, Brian R.; Schroder, Kerstin E. E.; Kuo, Yu-Tung – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This paper reports research on the implementation of a web-based videoconferencing tool (Interwise) for synchronous learning sessions on an industrial technology course offered through a university in northern Taiwan. The participants included undergraduate students from the same course offered in two different semesters. We investigated students'…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Synchronous Communication, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
Koechli, Linda; Glynn, Maureen – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This paper outlines an action research project involving the development of an educational online role-playing website, known as Lake Devo. Designed in keeping with constructivist principles, the website is used in select post-secondary courses at Ryerson University and allows learners to work synchronously, using visual, audio, and text elements…
Descriptors: Action Research, Role Playing, Constructivism (Learning), Web Sites
Malinovski, Toni; Vasileva, Marina; Vasileva-Stojanovska, Tatjana; Trajkovik, Vladimir – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Early identification of relevant factors that influence students' experiences is vitally important to the educational process since they play an important role in learning outcomes. The purpose of this study is to determine underlying constructs that predict high school students' subjective experience and quality expectations during asynchronous…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Synchronous Communication, Distance Education, Identification
van Zyl, J. Marinda; Els, Christoffel Johannes; Blignaut, Anita Seugnet – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
A large number of unqualified and under-qualified in-service teachers are holding back socio-economical development in South Africa, a newly industrialized country. Open and distance learning (ODL) provides an innovative strategy and praxis for developing and newly industrialized countries to reach their educational and socio-economical objectives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teacher Qualifications, Barriers
Ward, Michael E.; Peters, Gary; Shelley, Kyna – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2010
Some faculty members are reluctant to offer online courses because of significant concerns relative to the impact of such formats on the quality of instruction, learning, and participant interaction. Faculty members from The University of Southern Mississippi implemented synchronous interactive online instruction (SIOI) in the spring of 2007. This…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Quality, Online Courses, Learning Experience
