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Torres-Arends, Irene – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
Misunderstandings about how the academic world operates are common among international students. This research investigated international students' understandings of academic regulations. Qualitative content analysis of 3,438 email messages indicate international students used a constellation of arguments to make academic requests/complaints to…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Misconceptions, Foreign Countries, Electronic Mail
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Glazier, Rebecca A. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2016
As the prevalence of online education continues to grow, so do concerns about student success. Online students tend to withdraw more often and earn lower grades, compared to students in traditional classrooms. Explanations for this disparity range from student characteristics to institutional shortcomings to course design. Attempts to counter this…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship, Academic Achievement
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LaBarbera, Robin – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2013
While many researchers have sought to identify pedagogical strategies to create a sense of connectedness in online courses, few have investigated e-mail correspondence between student and instructor. The current study addressed this issue and found students' sense of connectedness to be strongly correlated to feedback on assignments, instructor…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Student Satisfaction, Online Courses, Electronic Mail
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Whalen, D. Joel, Ed. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
This article, the second of a two-part series, features 13 "My Favorite Assignments" that were introduced at the Association for Business Communication's 82nd annual conference held in Dublin, Ireland, in 2017. The pedagogical innovations include assignments that teach students how to conduct primary research, present their findings,…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Professional Associations, Business Communication, Foreign Countries
Corona, Shannon F. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which instructor immediacy correlated with online community college students' perceived learning. The research questions that were investigated in the study focused on online instructor immediacy as it relates to praise (words of approval), encouragement (words of support) and examples…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Community Colleges, Correlation, Feedback (Response)
Smith, Nancy McK.; Pickert, Sarah – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2011
Children with disabilities live in every country of the world. Training personnel to provide education and rehabilitative services to these children, no matter where they live, is a continuing challenge for the profession. This paper describes a human development course in a program designed for an international religious organization based in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Preservice Teacher Education, Assignments, Teacher Education Programs
Harris, Jean L.; Ludwig, Michael J. – 1997
This paper describes a preservice health education course for elementary educators that incorporated a technology component to help the students gain computer literacy. All students received instructional computer accounts and had access to a class bulletin board. One class session focused on learning the systems. Throughout the semester, students…
Descriptors: Assignments, College Students, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
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Pike, Gary R. – Assessment Update, 2004
Recently the Educational Testing Service (ETS) has modified its Student Instructional Report II (SIR II) for use in online distance education courses. The SIR II is a second-generation survey based on more than thirty years of experience with student evaluations (Centra, 1998; Centra and Gaubatz, n.d.). The e-SIR II is based on the highly…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Distance Education, Educational Testing, Prior Learning