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Claudia A. Medlin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Online learning continues to grow at unprecedented rates. K-12 had more than 275,000 students enrolled in full-time virtual schools in 2011--2012 and over 2 million participating in at least one online course. Despite this growth, there is little research on model formation and model validation for online learning. Two research-based models were…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Case Studies, Faculty Development, Kindergarten
Abu-Arja, Sandy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The 21st Century workforce must be flexible, adaptable, and innovative to stay competitive in today's fast-paced, ever-changing job market. Organizations play an important role in supporting the professional growth of its employees by offering various kinds of formal and informal professional development opportunities. While formal learning may be…
Descriptors: Leaders, Informal Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Bilingual Schools
Eaglen Bertrando, Sharen Linn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this collective case study was to explore digital badging in educational institutions as support for K-12 practitioners struggling to integrate technology into pedagogical practices. The researcher conducted a mixed-method study that captured perceptions about digital badges and follow-up interviews with selected badge users to…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Recognition (Achievement), Evaluation Methods, Information Storage
King, Elizabeth M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
While research indicates that an increasing number of males are experiencing a sense of disaffiliation with traditional education (Kleinfeld, 2006; Steinkuehler & King, 2009), nearly all teenage boys and young adult men (approximately 99%) regularly engage in playing video games of some sort (Roberts, Foehr & Rideout (2008). This is an interesting…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Workplace Learning, Job Skills, Career Exploration