Teaching the Creation of Batik Motifs to Foreign Students through Distance Learning

Implementing short courses on the complex process of batik creation for foreign students, which have to be conducted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, presents a challenge. Therefore, this research aims to explore the implementation of batik art practices that involve online learning and digital technology. This study entails an online course involving twenty-six (26) foreign students to provide empirical evidence about the practical procedure for making batik motifs with digital applications. Consequently, it confirmed that the artistic practice of making batik motifs can be tought online, and participants can effectively make these designs by employing the Dbatik application.

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Online Nurse Education

Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch127 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 1024-1031

Author(s):

Jane Klobas ◽

Ciro Sementina ◽

Stefano Renzi

Keyword(s):

Online Learning ◽

Distance Learning ◽

Course Design ◽

Online Collaboration ◽

Online Course ◽

Market Segments ◽

Wide Scale ◽

Online Distance Learning ◽

Online Distance ◽

Collaborative Activities

In many countries, healthcare professionals are required to participate annually in compulsory continuing medical education (CME). The effort involved in providing wide-scale training led the Italian Ministry of Health to support pilot courses using online distance learning. This article reports the results of a short survey which aimed to gauge the potential of online CME for nurses in Italy. Most of the 152 respondents, all of whom had completed an online course, supported the inclusion of some form of collaborative learning. Three possible market segments for online learning emerged from the study: nurses who prefer to study alone, those who would appreciate collaborative activities well-integrated into course design, and those who would prefer courses that include online collaboration of any kind. The authors conclude that online learning is a suitable mode for enabling participation in CME for accreditation, but caution that further research is required to confirm that the preferences of nurses who have experienced online distance learning are shared by those who have not.

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Disintegrating Progress: Bolshevism, National Modernism, and the Emergence of Contemporary Art Practices in Armenia

ARTMargins ◽

10.1162/artm_a_00004 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 62-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Vardan Azatyan

Keyword(s):

Contemporary Art ◽

Socialist Realism ◽

Artistic Practice ◽

Complex Process ◽

Art Practices ◽

History Of ◽

Political Project

This article provides a genealogy of the emergence of contemporary art practices in Armenia, arguing that the very history of emersion of these practices can be seen as a complex process of disintegration of the Bolshevik political project, particularly its agenda to base art on a subtle dialectical reconciliation between the nation and the class. After this dialectic was brutally instrumentalized by Stalinist Socialist Realism, it was attacked by the National Modernists during Khrushchev's Thaw. Later, in 1970s, from within the National Modernism itself, the first tendencies of contemporary art practices emerged. They began to challenge the conventional notions of artistic practice along the lines of a conception of art as a performative practice of liberatory subjectivization. This marked the point of the ultimate disintegration of both triumphant and tragic Bolshevik project that became a haunting specter of post-Soviet contexts.

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Strategies for innovative teaching and learning Part 2: How to deliver a distance education online course

Journal of Nursing Education and Practice ◽

10.5430/jnep.v11n9p39 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 39

Author(s):

Constance E. McIntosh ◽

Diana Bantz ◽

Cynthia M. Thomas

Keyword(s):

Distance Education ◽

Online Learning ◽

Distance Learning ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Online Courses ◽

Online Course ◽

Innovative Teaching ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Learning Platform ◽

History Of

The second article in a three-part series discusses how to deliver a distance education online course by i) assuring understanding of the learning platform, ii) developing a course model, iii) creating individual assignment rubrics for courses, iv) requiring active participation from both instructor and students, and v) setting-up quality communication. This paper is a continuation of the first paper whereby the history of distance learning, the positives and negatives of online learning, advantages and disadvantages of online learning, and the initial considerations for establishing online courses.

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Using Web for Delivery of Open and Distance Learning Programmes

Cases on Online Learning Communities and Beyond ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1936-4.ch013 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 239-265

Author(s):

Kumar Sunil ◽

M. K. Salooja

Keyword(s):

Online Learning ◽

Distance Learning ◽

Foreign Students ◽

Open Educational Resources ◽

Policy Framework ◽

Delivery Mode ◽

Valuable Insight ◽

Initial Stage ◽

Open And Distance Learning

This case study focuses on the usage of Web as a delivery mode for open and distance learning programmes in India. It describes the designing and delivering of a postgraduate level academic programme at Indira Gandhi National Open University. The university has been struggling with teething problems tied to the initial stage of acquisition of an online learning platform. It is a bit of an extensive chapter, as it documents academic and administrative policies being practiced by the largest university in the world to overcome these problems. The objective of this case study is to reflect on the evolution process and to identify conducive factors for successful delivery of online programmes. The interpretative case study methodology also facilitates distinguishing the evidence-based best practices. Access to technology and its robustness are the main constraints in delivery of education through online platforms for any developing country. The online programmes are able to attract a good number of foreign students. The institution has to concurrently put in place a policy framework covering aspects like: friendliness to the online interface; standardization of design, delivery, and assessment of the online programmes; recognition to the teachers and administrative staff involved in online programmes; and the use of open educational resources. This case study provides valuable insight for foreign universities ready to plunge into the vast higher education market in India and other developing countries without crossing political borders. It is also very helpful for universities, which are either planning or in the initial stage of acquiring online learning platforms.

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Preparing for Online and Distance Learning Courses

Online Course Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5472-1.ch007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 98-114

Author(s):

Paul A. Asunda ◽

Jennifer Calvin ◽

Rosalie Johanson

Keyword(s):

Online Learning ◽

Distance Learning ◽

Online Courses ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Dropout Rates ◽

Online Course ◽

Successful Completion ◽

Course Work

The purpose of this descriptive study is to investigate students' perceptions of online learning courses at a 4 year mid-level mid-western university and whether or not these perceptions influenced their decision to continue taking online courses or not. The findings of this study concur with Lim (2004) in that thorough preparation prior to online course work can help to curb dropout rates and can better prepare learners for successful completion of the course.

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Preparing for Online and Distance Learning Courses

Cross-Cultural Online Learning in Higher Education and Corporate Training - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-5023-7.ch013 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 229-243

Author(s):

Paul A. Asunda ◽

Jennifer Calvin ◽

Rosalie Johanson

Keyword(s):

Online Learning ◽

Distance Learning ◽

Online Courses ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Dropout Rates ◽

Online Course ◽

Successful Completion ◽

Course Work

The purpose of this descriptive study is to investigate students’ perceptions of online learning courses at a 4 year mid-level mid-western university and whether or not these perceptions influenced their decision to continue taking online courses or not. The findings of this study concur with Lim (2004) in that thorough preparation prior to online course work can help to curb dropout rates and can better prepare learners for successful completion of the course.

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Screening Statues

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474410892.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Steven Jacobs ◽

Susan Felleman ◽

Vito Adriaensens ◽

Lisa Colpaert

Keyword(s):

Contemporary Art ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Film History ◽

Two Dimensional ◽

Artistic Practice ◽

Experimental Art ◽

Broad Scope ◽

Art Practices ◽

Extensive Reference

Sculpture is an artistic practice that involves material, three-dimensional, and generally static objects, whereas cinema produces immaterial, two-dimensional, kinetic images. These differences are the basis for a range of magical, mystical and phenomenological interactions between the two media. Sculptures are literally brought to life on the silver screen, while living people are turned into, or trapped inside, statuary. Sculpture motivates cinematic movement and film makes manifest the durational properties of sculptural space. This book will examine key sculptural motifs and cinematic sculpture in film history through seven chapters and an extensive reference gallery, dealing with the transformation skills of "cinemagician" Georges Méliès, the experimental art documentaries of Carl Theodor Dreyer and Henri Alekan, the statuary metaphors of modernist cinema, the mythological living statues of the peplum genre, and contemporary art practices in which film—as material and apparatus—is used as sculptural medium. The book’s broad scope and interdisciplinary approach is sure to interest scholars, amateurs and students alike.

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Learning Analytics Considered Harmful

Online Learning ◽

10.24059/olj.v16i3.272 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Laurie P Dringus

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Online Learning ◽

Learning Analytics ◽

Online Courses ◽

Research Community ◽

Current Status ◽

Online Course ◽

Full Potential

This essay is written to present a prospective stance on how learning analytics, as a core evaluative approach, must help instructors uncover the important trends and evidence of quality learner data in the online course. A critique is presented of strategic and tactical issues of learning analytics. The approach to the critique is taken through the lens of questioning the current status of applying learning analytics to online courses. The goal of the discussion is twofold: (1) to inform online learning practitioners (e.g., instructors and administrators) of the potential of learning analytics in online courses and (2) to broaden discussion in the research community about the advancement of learning analytics in online learning. In recognizing the full potential of formalizing big data in online coures, the community must address this issue also in the context of the potentially "harmful" application of learning analytics.

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