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Marino, Michael A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A study was conducted to investigate the extent to which previous science achievement affected student performance in traditional hands-on and virtual laboratory environments. A sample of 70 first-year college students was employed in a counterbalanced A-B-A-B experimental design. The study spanned four instructional weeks of laboratory…
Descriptors: Hands on Science, Virtual Classrooms, Science Laboratories, College Freshmen
Warren, Tracey Louise Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2018
One of the major issues that continues to be addressed in mathematics and mathematics education concerns the significance that technology plays and its impact on learning for mathematics students. This study researched the narrative between technology and interaction in an online class by understanding how online students make sense of mathematics…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Educational Technology
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Toppin, Ian N.; Toppin, Sheila M. – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
Virtual schools are a growing phenomenon in k-12 education. School systems in almost every state in the United States offer some version of fully online or blended education. It is no longer far-fetched to conclude that if the current trend continues, virtual school enrollments will eclipse those of traditional brick-and-mortar k-12 institutions…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Electronic Learning, Institutional Characteristics, Futures (of Society)
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Gerhátová, Žaneta; Perichta, Peter; Palcut, Marián – Education Sciences, 2020
This work presents the results of two-year-long pedagogical research, the aim of which was to demonstrate the applicability of the usage of a new strategy in education--Integrated e-Learning (INTe-L)--through its introduction into project-based physics teaching in Slovakia. The INTe-L strategy is built around the role of experiments and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Science Instruction, Physics
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Nogales-Delgado, Sergio; Román Suero, Silvia; Martín, José María Encinar – Education Sciences, 2020
Apart from the evident tragedy that the COVID-19 outbreak has meant regarding both personal and economic costs, the normal functioning of the academic year has been drastically altered at all educational levels. Regarding Spain, the state of alert implemented by the government from mid-March to June has affected traditional face-to-face sessions…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Chemical Engineering
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Lomicka, Lara – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
During Covid-19, educators have been forced to quickly and creatively rethink teaching practices and the education of future generations. Community is a key consideration in reconceptualizing how the traditional classroom might function successfully in an online space. How does the virtual community of language learners interact with each other…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Disease Incidence
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Seeletso, Mmabaledi; Letseka, Moeketsi – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2020
This paper explores ways in which virtual learning can facilitate improved access to information, promote openness, and encourage flexibility in an open and distance learning university. It reports on experiences and perceptions of students at an open and distance learning university, who study through virtual learning. The study considered two…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Access to Education, Open Universities
Wiseman, Rosalind; Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy; Hattie, John – Corwin, 2020
Parent involvement has always been a vital part of any child's education, but the pandemic and resulting remote instruction require that parents and educators partner at a deeper level. Following the tremendous success of "The Distance Learning Playbook, K-12," education authorities Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie have teamed up…
Descriptors: Guides, Parent Participation, Distance Education, Kindergarten
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Golubeva, Irina; Guntersdorfer, Ivett – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Empathy is widely perceived and understood as an unquestioned component of Intercultural Competence (IC). The authors see the ability to empathise with others and to see their point of view as an important condition for developing an ethnorelative viewpoint, and therefore consider it important to incorporate activities into the intercultural…
Descriptors: Empathy, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods
Boast, Lyria; Clifford, Beth; Doyle, Daniela – Public Impact, 2020
Almost immediately after schools closed due to the coronavirus outbreak in spring 2020, we began to see anecdotal evidence that charter schools were reacting quickly and serving students well. This paper offers evidence that smaller networks and schools that represent over 65% of the charter school landscape were able to respond quickly and take…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Vasmatzoglou, Areti; Ní Chiaráin, Neasa – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Virtual simulation training has gained in usage in various educational fields and offers the potential to support and reinforce learning goals when practical experience is not possible. Teaching practice experience in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom is critical, yet frequently unobtainable for students in Teaching English to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Computer Simulation
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M. David Burghardt; Deborah Hecht – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
This paper examines the differences and challenges encountered when trying to create informal blended (virtual and hands-on) engineering design STEM activities. It contrasts the creation of STEM activities for formal and informal learning environments, stressing that the differences extend far beyond the length of the activity or depth of any…
Descriptors: Informal Education, STEM Education, Science Activities, Youth Clubs
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Nespor, Jan – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2019
Full-time virtual schools problematize what it means to 'attend' school. Is it the length of time a child is logged on to the school's software system (regardless of the amount of work done), or the amount of work submitted (regardless of the log-on time)? How should one figure the amount of work teachers are doing when students work by themselves…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Time Factors (Learning), Attendance, Accountability
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Farooq, Sana; Benade, Leon – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2019
This literature review is a condensed version of one prepared for a smallscale qualitative study of educators (Farooq, 2019) who have recently transitioned from face-to-face to online teaching at New Zealand tertiary providers of education. The study aimed to understand how online educators picked cues from the discussion platforms offered by…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Virtual Classrooms, Critical Theory, College Faculty
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Richter, Rachael A. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2019
Research in distance education has investigated student satisfaction and learning outcomes, comparing face-to-face with online delivery formats, and tested various technological tools, but has yet to consider alternative pedagogies. Liberatory pedagogy facilitates critical thinking, awareness, reflection and social action around constructs such as…
Descriptors: Reflection, Social Work, Nontraditional Education, Personal Narratives
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