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Abdal-Haqq, Ismat, Ed. – 2002
This book is designed to provide practical information about planning and operating virtual, or online, schools. It discusses and illustrates promising practices and successful models and approaches; provides planning resources for implementation; presents costs and benefits of launching virtual schools; offers preventive strategies that help…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Distance Education, Educational Environment, Educational Media
Serban, Andreea M.; Fleming, Steven – 2002
This document reports on outcomes of online courses offered at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC), California, during the three semesters from fall 2000 to fall 2001. The study combines a comparative and exploratory design to investigate the demographic makeup and academic success of online students compared to peer on campus classes and the campus…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Curriculum
Alhalabi, Bassem; Hamza, M. Khalid; Hsu, Sam; Anandapuram, Sudeep – 1999
This research explored the challenge of how students might successfully perform real laboratory experiments over the Internet without being in a laboratory. Numerous distance learning environments were surveyed, and the effectiveness and disadvantages of laboratory facilities currently available over the Internet were assessed. Full and part-time…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer System Design, Distance Education
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Lee, Joseph; Hong, Ng Lai; Ling, Ng Lai – Internet and Higher Education, 2001
Describes a study conducted at a private college in Malaysia that identified factors that helped learners successfully use information and communication technology in a virtual learning environment. Topics include skills and attitudes of students; awareness of information available on the Internet; access to the Internet; and perceived…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes
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Harden, Ronald M. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2005
Increasing demands on continuing medical education (CME) are taking place at a time of significant developments in educational thinking and new learning technologies. Such developments allow today's CME providers to better meet the CRISIS criteria for effective continuing education: convenience, relevance, individualization, self-assessment,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Global Approach, Patients, Physicians
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Hai-Jew, Shalin – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004
Started in 1997, Washington Online Virtual Campus (WAOL) consists of a consortium of 34 community colleges around Washington State to provide asynchronous online learning. WAOL bears many of the features of a loosely coupled organization with its geographically dispersed frontline instructors, fragmented external environment, modularity of courses…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Consortia, Virtual Classrooms
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Siedlaczek, Kathy – College Quarterly, 2004
The introduction of computer and communications technology, and particularly the internet, into education has opened up some new possibilities for teaching and learning. Courses designed and delivered in an online environment offer the possibility of highly interactive and individually focussed teaching and learning experiences. However, online…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Classroom Environment, Synchronous Communication
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Coffey, John W.; Canas, Alberto J. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2003
This article contains a description of a network-based Learning Environment Organizer entitled LEO, which takes its impetus from the Assimilation Theory of meaningful learning. LEO represents a new approach to computer-mediated augmentation of face-to-face, or hybrid courses, and a different approach to distance learning course delivery. LEO…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Environment, Advance Organizers, Distance Education
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Thurston, Allen – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2005
A new virtual learning environment (VLE) was developed to provide structured support to distance education students undertaking postgraduate study on a core study module of the Master of Education degree at the University of Dundee. Students were offered the option of receiving support via the VLE as opposed to the existing methods, that included…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Investigations, Distance Education, Online Courses
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Moule, Pam – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2006
Doctoral research considered whether healthcare students were able to develop characteristics of Communities of Practice when engaged in an interprofessional online module. Using a case study approach the research included two phases. Within phase one a questionnaire was administered to the group of 109 healthcare students. These were analysed to…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Paraprofessional Personnel
Powell, Allison; Patrick, Susan – North American Council for Online Learning, 2006
In the United States, there were more than 500,000 enrollments in online courses in grades K-12 and more than one-third of public school districts offered some type of eLearning during the 2005-2006 school year. Research has been done on several virtual schools in North America; however, little information is available about current K-12…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses, Quality Control
Shelffo, Andrew – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2006
One of the big fears digital technology provokes in people, perhaps those on college campuses more than anywhere else, is that its use will cause everyone to lose something unique to themselves. Assuming for a moment that this is true, it is a particularly dire vision for colleges and universities, where the institution's identity goes a long way…
Descriptors: Campuses, Governing Boards, Higher Education, College Presidents
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Dugdale, Julie; Pallamin, Nico; Pavard, Bernard – Simulation & Gaming, 2006
Training firefighters is a difficult process in which emotions and nonverbal behaviors play an important role. The authors have developed a mixed reality environment for training a small group of firefighters, which takes into account these aspects. The assessment of the environment was made up of three phases: assessing the virtual agents to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Training Methods, Experiential Learning
Maly, K.; Overstreet, C. M.; Gonzalez, A.; Denbar, M. L.; Cutaran, R.; Karunaratne, N. – 1998
This paper describes IRI (Interactive Remote Instruction), a computer-based system built at Old Dominion University (Virginia) in order to support distance education. The system is based on the concept of a virtual classroom where students at different locations have the same synchronous class experience, using networked computers to communicate…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer System Design
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de Oliveira, Leonardo Rocha; Cortimiglia, Marcelo; Marques, Luis Fernando Moraes – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2003
This article presents a managerial experience with a web-based course on data base technology for enterprise management. The course has been developed and managed by a Department of Industrial Engineering in Brazil in a Public University. Project's managerial experiences are described covering its conception stage where the Virtual Learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Databases, Administration, Web Based Instruction
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