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Carnoy, Martin; Rabling, Brenda Jarillo; Castano-Munoz, Jonatan; Montoliu, Josep Maria Duart; Sancho-Vinuesa, Teresa – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
A highly touted feature of the so-called global "revolution" in higher education is the trend to use information technology to reach a broader clientele. Although there is evidence that students may be learning the material in on-line courses as well as in traditional face-to-face universities, how well students learn content is not the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Universities, Distance Education, Persistence
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Perez-Marin, Diana; Pascual-Nieto, Ismael – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2010
A student conceptual model can be defined as a set of interconnected concepts associated with an estimation value that indicates how well these concepts are used by the students. It can model just one student or a group of students, and can be represented as a concept map, conceptual diagram or one of several other knowledge representation…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Knowledge Representation, Models, Universities
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Diaz, Ana; Garcia, Alfonsa; de la Villa, Agustin – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2011
This paper analyses the role of Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) in a model of learning based on competences. The proposal is an e-learning model Linear Algebra course for Engineering, which includes the use of a CAS (Maxima) and focuses on problem solving. A reference model has been taken from the Spanish Open University. The proper use of CAS is…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Technical Writing, Open Universities, Information Management
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Jara, Carlos A.; Candelas, Francisco A.; Torres, Fernando; Dormido, Sebastian; Esquembre, Francisco; Reinoso, Oscar – Computers & Education, 2009
Web-based learning environments are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. One of the most important web-learning resources is the virtual laboratory (VL), which gives students an easy way for training and learning through the Internet. Moreover, on-line collaborative communication represents a practical method to transmit the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Internet, Teaching Methods
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Sevilla-Pavón, Ana; Serra-Cámara, Belén; Gimeno-Sanz, Ana – The EUROCALL Review, 2012
Digital Storytelling is a powerful pedagogical tool for both students and educators, which started to be used for teaching and learning purposes a few years ago, becoming more and more popular over time. The use of digital storytelling in non-specific language learning contexts has been widely explored, as shown in the literature. However, its use…
Descriptors: Story Telling, English for Special Purposes, Pretests Posttests, Student Surveys
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Gomez, Emilio; Rodriguez-Marciel, Cristina – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
The purpose of this paper was to provide information about the virtual learning environment known as PGDnet (the Spanish acronym for "Plataforma de Gestion Docente" or Educational Management Platform in English), which was developed by the innovative education group at the Technical University of Madrid known as "Nuevas metodologias…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction
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Giambona, G.; Birchall, D. W. – Educational Media International, 2011
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in creating a dynamic and successful European economy. Time-poor managers in these organisations generally have fewer opportunities for training and development than their counterparts in larger organisations. As a result, different requirements are placed on training. The aim of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Needs, Experiential Learning, Evidence
Patrut, Bogdan; Patrut, Monica; Cmeciu, Camelia – IGI Global, 2013
As web applications play a vital role in our society, social media has emerged as an important tool in the creation and exchange of user-generated content and social interaction. The benefits of these services have entered in the educational areas to become new means by which scholars communicate, collaborate and teach. Social Media and the New…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Environment, School Holding Power, Interpersonal Relationship
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Mompo, Rafael; Redoli, Judith – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
With this article, we wish to transmit some key factors of success that we have used personally when faced with the structuring of a teaching programme based on e-learning. In particular, this paper reflects the experience of the authors in the usage of Internet tools in their teaching duties at university, in order to solve several problems that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Large Group Instruction, Internet
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Llamas-Nistal, M.; Caeiro-Rodriguez, M.; Castro, M. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
This paper shows the results of a survey performed in Spain on the different functionalities of e-learning platforms. This survey was filled in by a group of teachers, experts in engineering education from across Spain, within the scope of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society. This paper presents their opinions on several aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Engineering Education, Knowledge Level
Anaya, Antonio R.; Boticario, Jesus G. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
Data mining methods are successful in educational environments to discover new knowledge or learner skills or features. Unfortunately, they have not been used in depth with collaboration. We have developed a scalable data mining method, whose objective is to infer information on the collaboration during the collaboration process in a…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Cooperative Learning, College Students, Adult Students
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Cegarra-Navarro, Juan-Gabriel; Rodriguez, Francisco Javier Canovas – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2012
Electronic learning (e-learning) portals can be defined as websites that store and present materials for online learning, training, performance assessment, and certification. Few, if any, studies have investigated the factors that might contribute to the integration or implementation of e-learning portals in universities. With the development of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Performance Factors, Web Sites
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Espasa, Anna; Meneses, Julio – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
Within the constructivist framework of online distance education the feedback process is considered a key element in teachers' roles because it can promote the regulation of learning. Therefore, faced with the need to guide and train teachers in the kind of feedback to provide and how to provide it, we establish three aims for this research:…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Constructivism (Learning), Open Universities, Distance Education
Garcia Laborda, Jesus; Magal-Royo, Teresa; Lopez, Jose Luis Gimenez – Online Submission, 2011
As the use of mobile learning educational applications has become more common anywhere in the world, new concerns have appeared in the classroom, human interaction in software engineering and ergonomics. new tests of foreign languages for a number of purposes have become more and more common recently. However, studies interrelating language tests…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Language Tests, Computer Software
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Badia, A.; Barbera, E.; Guasch, T.; Espasa, A. – Digital Education Review, 2011
This paper reports on an empirical and descriptive investigation into how teachers and learners use technology in three prototypical learning activities in a higher educational online learning environment. Additionally, the relationship between the educational uses of technology and the overall educational patterns of interaction between teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Learning Activities, Online Courses
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