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RSS coursesLearning From Reflections - Issues in Building Quality Online Courses
White Paper It contains student reflections on their experiences developing and implementing online mini-courses, which was the primary focus of the course. Discussion is enhanced with references to literature on online learning, and should assist educators... [20 Apr 2005]
IT Instructor Uses WordPerfect to Create Workbooks for Microsoft Office Courses
White Paper In his role as a teacher of adult students, he designs and produces workbooks and other materials for his many Microsoft Office training courses. Leo Staggs is an experienced IT professional and instructor based in Orpington, Southeast London. [08 Sep 2006]
Learner Experiences in Online Courses: Towards a Model for Learning to Learn Online
White Paper This qualitative case study explored learner experiences in online courses. Online learning advocates position online education as superior to and distinctly different from traditional face-to-face education and distance education. [20 Apr 2005]
Regatta Sets Optimal Courses for 1,000 Boats With Pioneering Use of Visual Technology
White Paper Skandia Cowes Week Regatta - one of the largest competitions of its type in the world - set its sailing courses using pins and string on a wall-mounted chart of the waters, as it had for most of its 180 years. [20 Jun 2007]
Instructional Immediacy and the Seven Principles: Strategies for Facilitating Online Courses
White Paper Finally, the paper describes how the constructs of immediacy and the Seven Principles could expand the current framework of research to include strategies that could better enable instructors to better achieve desired student outcomes in web-based... [20 Apr 2005]
Learning Project Management Skills in Senior Design Courses
White Paper These courses are a student's last opportunity to use design skills learned in school. US university engineering programs include a "senior design" course in their curricula. Student teams work to solve a problem while demonstrating their design... [19 Dec 2005]
Asynchronous Web Discussions in Teacher Training Courses: Promoting Collaborative Learning - Or Not?
White Paper This paper discusses curricular adaptations made in the integration of an asynchronous discussion board assignment in graduate level teacher training courses over a five-semester period. Over the past few years, asynchronous web-based technologies... [13 Dec 2005]
Planning and Managing the Development of Courses for Distance Delivery: Results From a Qualitative Study
White Paper Some faculties opt to develop and deliver courses on their own, whereas others work in close collaboration with selected university or college departments to implement this conversion process. Converting traditional face-to-face course offerings... [21 Apr 2005]
Administering Distance Courses Taught in Partnership With Other Institutions
White Paper To fill a gap in its curriculum, the University of Minnesota at Crookston school contracted with the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities to receive a series of courses for majors in scientific technical communication. [21 Apr 2005]
The Design of Lecture Courses and Laboratory Experiments for Mobile Telecommunications
White Paper This paper describes three courses which are carefully designed for telecommunications education. These three courses cover the fundamental concepts of Personal Communications Services (PCS), the relevant programming languages for software... [19 Jan 2006]
A Framework for Design and Evaluation of Internet-Based Distance Learning Courses Phase One - Framework Justification, Design and Evaluation
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for the development and evaluation of online distance learning courses, based on integrating an adaptation of Tyler's principles within the levels of cognitive learning in Bloom's Taxonomy. [20 Apr 2005]
A Study of Learning Environments Associated With Computer Courses
White Paper This study presented in this paper includes survey results of more than 850 students enrolled in CSIS courses at Murray State University. Areas of interest include preferences for various components of a computer course and any gender differences... [13 Apr 2005]
The Future of Learning: E-Learning Technology and Online Courses
White Paper The expansion of e-learning in the form of online courses offers an alternate solution to a traditional brick-and-mortar learning experience. In the fast-paced world we live in, it is sometimes a challenge not to get left behind. [03 Aug 2004]
Utilizing HP Printers, Project Lead the Way Enables Students to Get Accepted Into Engineer/Engineering-Related University Courses
White Paper Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is a not-for-profit organization with a primary objective of assisting schools in providing comprehensive pre-engineering courses for students at the middle and high school levels across all 48 continental states. [18 Sep 2004]
Oxford University to run online courses
News Oxford University is to run courses over the Internet from January, as part of the Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning (Tall) project. Building on the face-to-face courses that are already running at the University, Dr Geoffrey Thomas, director... [21 Jul 1998]
