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Mitigating the Urban-Rural Digital Divide: A Dual Scaffolding-Embedded Mobile Augmented Reality Learning Approach in the Post COVID-19 Pandemic
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Xiao-Fan Lin; Juan Jiang; Guoyu Luo; Xiyu Huang; Wenyi Li; Jiayan Zou; Zhaoyang Wang; Qintai Hu – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
Mitigating the digital divide is essential for the sustainable development of education. To provide distance access which ensures equality in education for both urban and rural students, online learning has been emphasized in the post COVID-19 period. However, some challenges to total online learning have been described, such as isolation and the…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Digital Literacy, Access to Education, Distance Education
Sex Education in Rural Schools in the United States: Impact of Rural Educators' Community Identities
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Blinn-Pike, Lynn – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2008
Purpose: The overall purpose of this exploratory research was to better understand rural educators' feelings about school-based sex education in order to foster better communication and collaboration between prevention researchers and rural teachers and administrators. In order to accomplish this purpose, the research question asked "How does…
Descriptors: Proximity, Rural Schools, Rural Urban Differences, Sex Education
Strategizing for the Future
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Eddy, Pamela L.; Murray, John P. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2007
This chapter reviews the strategies described in this volume that rural college leaders can use to address the issues and challenges their institutions face. (Contains a list of 12 resources and 4 online resources.)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Rural Urban Differences
The Satisfaction of Community Mental Health Professionals with Life and Work in Rural Areas.
Miller, Robert S.; Ray, JoAnn – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1986
Survey of 185 Washington rural mental health center professionals reveals moderately high levels of job/lifestyle satisfaction and higher levels of readiness for rural life/work among those taking rural courses/practicum during their educational experience. Study supports concept of anticipatory socialization correlating with higher levels of…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Health Personnel, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction
Relationships between Setting, Size and School Environmental Characteristics.
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Lam, Y. L. Jack – Administrator's Notebook, 1985
Reports on findings from a study of 217 schools in Manitoba designed to scrutinize how principals of large and small schools in urban and rural settings perceived the effects of environmental constraints. (MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Organization, Organizational Theories
Studying Rural and Urban Social Welfare Systems: An Innovative Approach.
Bergel, Vivian R.; Raffield, Sharon H. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1986
Describes rationale, organization, and requirements of urban/rural mini-semester, a field experience program which provides social work students at Elizabethtown College (Pennsylvania) with an appreciation of both rural and urban social welfare systems. Suggests how other colleges/universities, regardless of size, could implement this curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education