scholarly journals Improving Student Success Rate in Open Distance Learning Settings through the Principle of Constructive Alignment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuti Steph Khumalo
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Constructive Alignment

Design da Sala de Aula Virtual para o Novo Perfil do Aluno de EaD

EAD em FOCO ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teobaldo Gabriel de Souza Junior ◽  
Golbery de Oliveira Chagas Aguiar Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Virtual Classrooms ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Electronic Survey ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Para Determinar ◽  
Education Science

A presente pesquisa expõe uma análise a respeito de como as diversas manifestações do design podem influenciar no desempenho dos alunos da Educação a Distância e como estes discentes percebem a disposição dos conteúdos nas salas de aulas virtuais. Na execução deste trabalho, a evasão também foi evidenciada, de modo que não se poderia deixar de investigá-la. Com isso, o objetivo do estudo foi estabelecer uma relação direta entre o design da sala de aula e o nível satisfatório de aceitabilidade/interesse/motivação com o ambiente virtual de aprendizagem. Obviamente que essas variáveis estão ligadas diretamente a causas de evasão. Sendo assim, constatou-se que a disposição dos conteúdos e a forma como as salas de aulas virtuais são postas influenciam no interesse pelas disciplinas e, consequentemente, podem alterar as estatísticas de evasão. Como pressuposto metodológico para a execução da investigação, foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica em conjunto com a aplicação de questionário eletrônico, direcionado para os diversos atores da modalidade: educandos, professores, coordenadores e tutores do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba. Assim, concluiu-se que existem muitas variáveis para determinar a permanência ou a evasão nos cursos a distância, todavia, o arranjo da plataforma e das salas virtuais são de suma importância para auxiliar no êxito do alunado em geral. Palavras-chave: design e evasão, novo aluno da EaD, sala de aula virtual. Virtual Classroom Design for the New Profile of Distance Learning StudentAbstractThe proposed research analyzes how the design showing may reflect in the performance of distance learning student and how those students perceive the content arrangement in the virtual classrooms. During this research education dropout was highlighted, demanding special attention. Thus, the objective of the study was to establish a direct relationship between the design of the classroom and the satisfactory level of acceptability/interest/motivation with the virtual learning environment. Obviously, these variables are directly linked to causes of evasion. This way, it was verified that the content arrangement and the way the virtual classrooms are disposed influence the interest for the subjects and consequently reflects in the dropout statistics. As methodological assumption for this research it was carried out a bibliographic review and an electronic survey with the involved parts: students, professors, coordinators, and tutors in the Federal institute of education, science and technology of Paraiba state. Thus, the research showed the existence of several factors to determine the stay or dropout of a student in a distance learning course. However, the course organization and the virtual classroom arrangement are essential for the student success. Keywords: design and dropout, new distance learning student, virtual classroom

Innovative Math For Liberal Arts Majors

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Strasser
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Statistical Reasoning ◽  
Course Changes ◽  
Liberal Arts Students ◽  
Liberal Arts Majors

An innovative Math for Liberal Arts course was designed to provide liberal arts students with the life skills necessary to survive in the 21st century. The course emphasizes application driven mathematics. This course has been successful in changing students perceptions of the usefulness of the course and improving student success rate as well as actively engaging them in the study of mathematics. Topics such as critical thinking, unit analysis, statistical reasoning, and managing money are included. Students spend time analyzing a budget as well as learning about the stock market and the mathematics associated with each. Students who took this course were far more likely than those who took the more traditional survey type of course to rate the course as being important. The course changes are delineated and the students responses to those changes are described.

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.

scholarly journals Massive, Partially Online CS1 Course

2019 ◽  
pp. 356-364
Author(s):  
Tamar Vilner ◽  
Ela Zur
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Open University ◽  
Open Admissions ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Admissions Policy ◽  
Science Curricula

The Open University of Israel (OUI) has an open admissions policy and is based primarily on distance learning. As in other universities, our CS1 course includes the topics recommended in the Computer Science Curricula (2013). The large number of students who register for the course (from 700-900 students per semester) presents us with unique challenges in management. In this paper, we describe the efforts we have devoted to making the learning and teaching process as uniform as possible for all students taking the course. We describe the research we conducted in order to ascertain whether there is a correlation between regular or intensive tutoring groups and student success in CS1 and whether the specific tutors affect student success. We were satisfied that the teaching of our course is quite uniform.

scholarly journals ОПТИМІЗАЦІЯ Й АНАЛІЗ РЕЗУЛЬТАТІВ ВИКОРИСТАННЯ LMS MOODLE У СИСТЕМІ ЗМІШАНОГО НАВЧАННЯ В УНІВЕРСИТЕТІ

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serhii V. Petrenko
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Local Time ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Web Analytics ◽  
Student Activity ◽  
E Learning ◽  
On Line ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

In the article the author substantiates the theoretical foundations of e-learning, distance learning and mixed learning. We have analyzed the experience of using a mixed style of teaching a course, where LMS Moodle was used as a platform. The author shows positive and negative aspects of the implementation of the course using web analytics. We analyzed attendance of the course and student success; the ratio of student hits to the site where the course is located; use of on-line lessons, on-line training on selected topics; amount of time spent on resources by students; total student activity on the site; the correlation between unique visits and the number of pages viewed; visiting a resource from mobile devices; operating systems, from which there was an appeal to the resource; the ratio of browsers that were used to work with the resource; visiting the resource in local time.

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