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Elizabeth C. Danielson; Matthew J. Smith; Brittany Ross; Kari Sherwood; Justin D. Smith; Marc Atkins; Neil Jordan – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2024
Virtual Reality Job Interview Training (VR-JIT) and Virtual Interview Training for Transition Age Youth (VIT-TAY) demonstrated initial effectiveness at increasing employment among transition-age youth with disabilities engaged in pre-employment transition services. We characterized activities and estimated the labor and non-labor costs required to…
Descriptors: Employment Interviews, Computer Simulation, Virtual Classrooms, Training
Melodee Leigh Sweeney – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many people consider teaching a calling; the profession is predicated on helping others while yielding little personal gain. A teacher's primary goal is to deliver a valuable and engaging educational opportunity. The onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic in 2020 created challenges to reaching this goal for many teachers across the United States…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Experience, Emergency Programs, Distance Education
Xue, Kang; Huggins-Manley, Anne Corinne; Leite, Walter – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2022
In data collected from virtual learning environments (VLEs), item response theory (IRT) models can be used to guide the ongoing measurement of student ability. However, such applications of IRT rely on unbiased item parameter estimates associated with test items in the VLE. Without formal piloting of the items, one can expect a large amount of…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Artificial Intelligence, Item Response Theory, Item Analysis
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Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Linden, Robert; Jacob, Brian; Loeb, Susanna – Peabody Journal of Education, 2023
A common rationale for offering online courses in K-12 schools is that they allow students to take courses not offered at their schools; however, there has been little research on how online courses are used to expand curricular options when operating at scale. We assess the extent to which students and schools use online courses for this purpose…
Descriptors: High School Students, Online Courses, Guidelines, Distance Education
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Chakraborty, Nilanjana; Roy, Samrat; Leite, Walter L.; Faradonbeh, Mohamad Kazem Shirani; Michailidis, George – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2021
This study examines data from a field experiment investigating the effects of a personalized recommendation algorithm that proposes to students which videos to watch next, after they complete mini-assessments for algebra that available on the Math Nation intelligent virtual learning environment (IVLE). The end users of Math Nation are students…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Virtual Classrooms
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Díaz, Israel – Religious Education, 2021
This essay attends to how digital technology is shaping Christian religious education and its efforts of evangelization. It proposes that, while the use of digital technology has promise, an unreflective integration of digital technology can hinder Christian religious education's efforts of evangelization. This concern requires attention,…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Information Technology, Religious Factors
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Marcolini, Jessica P.; Acosta, Heather Skaza; Walsh-Haney, Heather; Johnson, Brian; Cooper, Susan J.; Frost, Laura – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2021
We describe a long-standing weeklong K-12 STEM teacher workshop that shifted to a virtual platform in 2020. We re-engaged former participants during this STEM Institute with goals of (1) modeling ways to connect best practices for STEM education gained in previous workshops to a virtual environment, (2) providing space for teacher reflection on…
Descriptors: Professional Development, COVID-19, Pandemics, Virtual Classrooms
Noble, Kenneth; Pelika, Stacey; Coons, Andy – National Education Association, 2017
In recent decades, in line with improvements in technology, schools have increasingly opted for Online Credit Recovery Programs (OCRPs) over traditional face-to-face courses. Despite sharing a common goal with traditional face-to-face programs--providing a pathway for students to get back on track, to avoid failing additional courses and falling…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Required Courses, Repetition, Credits
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Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Berger, Dan; Jacob, Brian; Loeb, Susanna; Hill, Michael – AERA Open, 2019
This article uses fixed effects models to estimate differences in contemporaneous and downstream academic outcomes for students who take courses virtually and face-to-face--both for initial attempts and for credit recovery. We find that while contemporaneous outcomes are positive for virtual students in both settings, downstream outcomes vary by…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, High School Students
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Beck, Dennis; LaFrance, Jason – Journal of School Choice, 2017
In this paper, we discuss some concerns and recommendations of Saultz and Fusarelli (2017), offering nuanced and detailed views of online schooling from a different perspective. This includes addressing challenges regarding online learning such as fluctuating enrollments, financial concerns, quality assurance, and accountability. In addition, we…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Quality Assurance, Accountability, Online Courses
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Dieker, Lisa A.; Straub, Carrie L.; Hughes, Charles E.; Hynes, Michael C.; Hardin, Stacey – Educational Leadership, 2014
Everything's going wrong in the classroom; the teacher's frustration level is so high that she's ready to walk out and try her hand at any other profession besides teaching. Just as things reach a peak, in steps the coach, who says, "Pause classroom!" To the teacher experiencing this scenario, it certainly seemed real. The classroom is,…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Computer Simulation, Universities, Faculty Development
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Callahan, Michael T.; King, Kathleen P. – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2018
While higher education institutions seek to increase college admissions' predictions of student success, they have largely overlooked examining possible impacts of online distance education classes completed in high school. Using information from an undergraduate honors program, this study analyzed whether an indicator of undergraduate student…
Descriptors: High Schools, Virtual Classrooms, Distance Education, Educational Technology
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Vasquez, Eleazar, III; Marino, Matthew T.; Donehower, Claire; Koch, Aaron – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2017
Functional analysis (FA) is an assessment procedure involving the systematic manipulation of an individual's environment to determine why a target behavior is occurring. An analog FA provides practitioners the opportunity to manipulate variables in a controlled environment and formulate a hypothesis for the function of a behavior. In previous…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Virtual Classrooms, Intervention, Training
Keller, MorraLee; DeBaun, Bill; Warick, Carrie – Education Commission of the States, 2020
When the nation shut down in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, states had to figure out what education would look like for the remainder of the academic year. These abrupt changes affected not only students' ability to learn but also their access to the support system that would help prepare them for steps beyond high school. This Policy…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Kim, Heesung; Ke, Fengfeng; Paek, Insu – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2017
This experimental study was intended to examine whether game-based learning (GBL) that encompasses four particular game characteristics (challenges, a storyline, immediate rewards and the integration of game-play with learning content) in an OpenSimulator-supported virtual reality learning environment can improve perceived motivational quality of…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Virtual Classrooms, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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