An Academic Solution

2020 ◽  
pp. 216-239
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Online Pedagogy ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Distance Learning Program ◽  
Doctoral Candidates ◽  
Mix And Match

Teaching, like golf, requires a bag of clubs. There are the drivers to deliver information, strengthen thinking, and build student skills. The putter and the wedge serve to motive students and keep them engaged. This chapter, written for teachers, gives practical examples of how to mix and match the face-to-face, blended, and fusion classrooms to improve learning outcomes. The development of the online pedagogy began while managing the first distance-learning program at a U.S. community college. The research continued for a decade more while beginning online learning at university in the South Pacific that delivered training to 10 developing nations. That research was followed by a four-year pilot study that created fusion classes to improve the performance of doctoral candidates enrolled in an online doctoral program.

scholarly journals Creative and Innovative Solutions to Accommodate the Growth of a Professional Practice Doctoral Program

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig A. Mertler ◽  
Danah Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Online Version ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Successful Solution ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Original Event

This essay describes one institution’s struggle to grow its EdD program by adding an equivalent online version of a successful face-to-face program. One of the challenges faced was that of creating a comparable experience for online students to share their ongoing action research, an activity that had long been part of the face-to-face version of the program. An innovative, all-day, virtual doctoral research conference was developed and implemented. We describe our creative rethinking of the original event, towards a new, successful, and fully-online redesigned event. Although the event continues to be refined, the inaugural event proved to be a successful solution to the challenge of transferring all components of a face-to-face program over to its online equivalent. Feedback from students who participated in the conference is shared, and recommendations for other EdD programs is offered.

Developing a Quality Distance Learning Program in a Comprehensive Community College

2011 ◽  
pp. 158-173
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Faculty Teaching ◽  
Distance Learning Program

Community colleges offer a variety of distance learning opportunities and continue to invest in technologies that better serve their students. This case study focuses on the experiences of Big State Community College and its progression from a few faculty teaching online courses to a distance learning program that supports greater than 25% of institutional enrollments. It explores the challenges of ensuring that Big State Community College’s evolving distance learning program promotes student success and is of a quality that reflects positively on the institution.

The EdD in Kinesiology at UNCG: An Online Doctoral Program?

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-226
Author(s):  
Diane L. Gill ◽  
Pam Kocher Brown ◽  
Erin J. Reifsteck
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Cohort Model ◽  
Interdisciplinary Curriculum ◽  
Dissertation Completion ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Orientation Session ◽  
Dissertation Defense ◽  
Teaching Leadership

The online EdD in kinesiology at UNCG evolved from the face-to-face EdD, which was designed as an interdisciplinary doctoral degree tailored to working professionals in kinesiology. The new online EdD, which is the only online doctoral program in kinesiology, retains that broad, interdisciplinary curriculum and focuses on developing practicing scholars in kinesiology teaching, leadership, and advocacy. The fully-online EdD program faces many challenges, including technology issues, faculty buy-in, retention, and dissertation completion. To meet those challenges, the EdD curriculum is structured in a four-year cohort model, emphasizing collaboration and connections from the initial campus orientation session through the dissertation defense.

Introduction to microelectronic design in a distance learning program

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092199658
Author(s):  
Wieslaw Kuzmicz
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Educational Software ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Ic Design ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Distance Learning Program

This paper describes observations and experiences collected during 14 years of running the “Integrated circuits” course in the framework of a distance learning program. The main objective of the “Integrated circuits” course is to raise the interest in microelectronics, convince the students that IC design is not a “secret science” requiring extraordinary talent and prepare the students for continuation toward M.Sc. degree. The course includes a mixture of teaching materials available online for self-studying, short video files, interactive self-tests, two “hands on” exercises and educational software needed for these exercises. E-mail and/or phone consultations, face-to-face or online meetings with the instructor are possible. About 1/3 of all students enrolled for the distance learning course perceive the “Integrated circuits” course as interesting, praise the design exercises and ask if it would be possible to continue education in microelectronic design at a more advanced level. Unfortunately distance learning at advanced level is not possible, mainly because professional design software can be used only on site, not remotely.

scholarly journals E-learning and Blended Learning in Orthodontic Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 188-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avinash Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Manual Skills ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Better Than

The purpose of this article is to evaluate how effective and efficient e-learning and blended learning is when compared with traditional face-to-face learning in orthodontic education. This article also provides a comparison between face-to-face learning, e-learning, and blended learning. An open PubMed literature search was done from 1980 to 2015, and a total of 23 relevant key articles were reviewed. Information emerging from studies in orthodontic education has indicated that e-learning classes are at least as good as and/or better than face-to-face classroom learning. Till date, only one study stated that the face-to-face conventional learning is better than e-learning. Two studies stated that blended approach using both traditional face-to-face learning and e-learning is the best method. In one study, the advantages of e-learning observed in the theoretical fields of orthodontics were not achieved in learning practical procedures for manual skills. Few studies found improvements in the efficiency of learning with e-learning program. Studies performed through questionnaires showed that student’s attitude and acceptance toward the use of e-learning was positive and favorable; however, blended learning was always rated high. Future research should be based on experiences of both faculty and student on a large scale for implementation of e-learning and blended learning in academic institutions. There is also need to provide professional development for faculty who will be teaching both in the physical and virtual environments.

scholarly journals Professional Formation and Identities of Online and Face-To-Face Students: Experiences about a Doctoral Program of Educational Research in Mexico

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (21) ◽  
pp. 1347
Author(s):  
Leticia Nayeli Ramírez-Ramírez ◽  
Juan Manuel Fernández-Cárdenas
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
The Relationship

The present investigation focuses on understanding the experiences of professional training and identities that face-to-face and virtual doctoral students construct in a training program as educational researchers in Mexico. The relationship between experiences and emerging identities as researchers, academics and learners has not been an important focus in research on doctoral students. Similarly, virtual doctoral programs are scarcely offered in Mexico and their impact on the trajectory of doctoral students has been barely documented. The present research is positioned in the qualitative-phenomenological approach and is based on the conceptual referents of the sociocultural approach to identity in practice. The research questions guiding the analysis were the following: (a) How do the face-to-face and online doctoral students experience their doctoral career? (b) What strengths, opportunities, difficulties and threats do they experience? and (c) What identities do you create in your doctoral career?

Commuting the "Distance" of Distance Learning

2000 ◽  
pp. 157-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric C. Adams ◽  
Christopher Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Primary Determinant ◽  
Online Distance Learning ◽  
Online Distance ◽  
Pepperdine University ◽  
Distance Learning Program ◽  
The Impact

A primary determinant of the success of an online distance learning program is its ability to develop a sense of community among its online participants. As a participant in the Pepperdine University Educational Technology Doctoral Program, we have firsthand knowledge and experience of the impact deliberate creation of community has on learning outcomes. A vehicle for the cultivation of this community can be found in principles of knowledge management.

Online Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Face-to-Face Classroom Instruction

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared Keengwe ◽  
Biljana Belamaric Wilsey
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Classroom Instruction ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Student Expectations ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Enhance Student Learning ◽  
Primary Impact

This article reports online graduate students’ perceptions of face-to-face classroom instruction in a doctoral program at a large public university in the eastern United States. The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of graduate students returning to a face-to-face classroom after becoming accustomed to online learning. The students’ online course experiences impacted their subsequent return to the face-to-face classroom in terms of logistics (anxiety finding a physical classroom, budgeting time to make it there) and learning (including interactions with students and instructors). The primary impact was increased appreciation of face-to-face interactions. Instructors also gained experience applying some other strategies to improve their classes. These findings could inform course developers and instructors about student expectations in face-to-face classrooms as well as stimulate reflections on recommendations for instructional improvements to enhance student learning.

scholarly journals A comparison the factors affected on academic satisfaction of students between traditional learning and distance learning models

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmut Demir ◽  
Sirvan Sen Demir
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Test Reliability ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Academic Satisfaction ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Distance Learning Program

The traditional on-campus classroom environments and distance learning have been the issue of debate and research in recent years. This research has also focused on these models. The main purpose of this research was to determine the factors affecting academic satisfaction and also the differences in academic satisfaction between distance learning and traditional learning students in tourism management education at SDU. To reach of the present research, first the literature was consulted to provide a conceptual model. Appropriate to the research model, 5-point Likert type survey has been prepared. Through conducting a face-to-face interview with 110 students of traditional learning program and an online (via internet) interview with 82 students of distance learning program were collected in the academic year of 2014-2015. The data obtained from the students was analysed via the SPSS. For the pre-test, reliability and validity analysis was done. And independent samples t-test was also used to determine whether differences in academic satisfaction of two groups. At second stage, structural and convergent validity of the data have revealed with the factor analysis. Then, correlation analysis and regression analysis were used. As a result, the findings demonstrated that the significant relationship between independent variables and academic satisfaction and all hypotheses have been supported.Keywords: academic satisfaction, traditional learning, distance learning.

Supporting the Use of Rudimentary Vocalizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Zubow ◽  
Richard Hurtig
Keyword(s):  
Rett Syndrome ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Multiple Modalities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Perceptual Judgments ◽  
The Face

Children with Rett Syndrome (RS) are reported to use multiple modalities to communicate although their intentionality is often questioned (Bartolotta, Zipp, Simpkins, & Glazewski, 2011; Hetzroni & Rubin, 2006; Sigafoos et al., 2000; Sigafoos, Woodyatt, Tuckeer, Roberts-Pennell, & Pittendreigh, 2000). This paper will present results of a study analyzing the unconventional vocalizations of a child with RS. The primary research question addresses the ability of familiar and unfamiliar listeners to interpret unconventional vocalizations as “yes” or “no” responses. This paper will also address the acoustic analysis and perceptual judgments of these vocalizations. Pre-recorded isolated vocalizations of “yes” and “no” were presented to 5 listeners (mother, father, 1 unfamiliar, and 2 familiar clinicians) and the listeners were asked to rate the vocalizations as either “yes” or “no.” The ratings were compared to the original identification made by the child's mother during the face-to-face interaction from which the samples were drawn. Findings of this study suggest, in this case, the child's vocalizations were intentional and could be interpreted by familiar and unfamiliar listeners as either “yes” or “no” without contextual or visual cues. The results suggest that communication partners should be trained to attend to eye-gaze and vocalizations to ensure the child's intended choice is accurately understood.

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