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Eaton, Sarah Elaine; Gereluk, Dianne; Dressler, Roswita; Becker, Sandra – Online Submission, 2017
Attracting and retaining teachers for rural and remote areas is a pervasive global problem. Currently, teacher education in Canada is primarily delivered in face-to-face formats located in urban centres or satellite campuses. There is a need for relevant and responsive teacher education programs for rural pre-service teachers. Recognizing this…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Teacher Education Programs, Course Organization, Student Participation
Zen, Deqi – Online Submission, 2008
Drawing evidence from a survey study she conducted in her own online classes as well as from current literature, the author, who has developed and taught several MA TESOL online courses, argues that the effectiveness of online instruction is not determined by the technology but by the instructor. An effective online instructor is one who is truly…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Distance Education, Online Courses, Virtual Classrooms
McLoughlin, M. Padraig M. M. – Online Submission, 2008
The author of this paper submits the thesis that learning requires doing; only through inquiry is learning achieved, and hence this paper proposes a programme of use of a modified Moore method in a Probability and Mathematical Statistics (PAMS) course sequence to teach students PAMS. Furthermore, the author of this paper opines that set theory…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Inquiry, Active Learning, Logical Thinking
Emiroglu, Bulent Gursel – Online Submission, 2007
Of the fields on which developments related to information and communication technologies are effective will keep increasing is education. That's why the methods and techniques that have been formed over the long years may change relatively. In the past years, the field of higher education has been impacted very much from the developments and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Courseware, Hypermedia, Instructional Development