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Learning under Lockdown: English Teaching in the Time of Covid-19
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Yandell, John – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
What happens when, in a nation under lockdown, teaching moves online? How is English as a school subject being differently configured? What are the gains and losses? This essay examines, through the prism of a single online lesson, the approach to English, to curriculum and pedagogy, that has been adopted by the Oak National Academy website, a…
Descriptors: School Closing, English Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
The Effect of Scaffolding Strategies for Inscriptions and Argumentation in a Science Cyberlearning Environment
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Kern, Cindy L.; Crippen, Kent J. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2017
Scientific inscriptions--graphs, diagrams, and data--and argumentation are integral to learning and communicating science and are common elements in cyberlearning environments--those involving the use of networked learning technologies. However, previous research has indicated that learners struggle to use inscriptions and when they engage in…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Internet, Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction
Can Khan Move the Bell Curve to the Right?
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Kronholz, June – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
More than 1 million people have watched the online video in which Salman Khan--a charming MIT math whiz, Harvard Business School graduate, and former Boston hedge-fund analyst--explains how he began tutoring his cousins in math by posting short lessons for them on YouTube. Other people began watching the lessons and sending Khan adulatory notes.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Charter Schools, Algebra, Feedback (Response)
State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada
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Barbour, Michael K. – International Association for K-12 Online Learning, 2009
The goal of the initial "Snapshot State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada" report was to provide an overview of the state of K-12 online learning in Canada. This was accomplished through the use of short commentaries about the state of K-12 distance education for each province and territory, along with more developed case…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Distance Education, Online Courses
Coherence or Interest: Which Is Most Important in Online Multimedia Learning?
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Muller, Derek A.; Lee, Kester J.; Sharma, Manjula D. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
The coherence principle states that all non-essential information in multimedia messages should be eliminated to minimise demands on cognitive resources. This assertion has been empirically verified in controlled laboratory studies with learners who have little prior knowledge and limited interest in the domain of instruction. It has not been…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Prior Learning, Multimedia Instruction, Electronic Learning
Creating Asynchronous Online Learning Communities
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Kerr, Crystal – Ontario Action Researcher, 2009
This research project examined how to develop and sustain online, asynchronous learning communities in continuous intake, distance education environments for learners in grades 7 through 10. The study is an action research project that is based upon in-depth, qualitative data. Interviews were conducted with distance education teachers,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Research Projects, Action Research, Distance Education