Models of distance education have evolved over decades, just in time to collide with modern pedagogies in which communication, interaction, student engagement, and active learning are of critical importance. The social media technologies encompass a wide variety of Web-based technologies such as...

This paper is written for instructors reluctant to teach web-based courses (hereafter referenced as online courses) or may be experiencing difficulties in one or more of the areas discussed herein. We find online teaching very satisfying and want to share our successful practices based on a...

Technology utilization in distance education has demonstrated its significance in the transfer of knowledge for both the instructors and the learners. This is also made possible through the use of the Internet which helps change the traditional teaching approaches into more modern methods when...

Marketing practitioners have long awakened to the challenges and realities of digital media in market behavior. With these changes a related and equally important issue has emerged --- the learning of web analytics in marketing education. Using web analytics as the primary study setting, we...

By the advent of Internet, new techniques and approaches emerged in the world of learning. Universities and educational institutions began to take advantage of the benefits associated with this new phenomenon. In this way, learning became a new experience for those who were not able to attend in...

Electronic education and learning is one of accomplishments of mankind which has affected the world tremendously. Since 1990 advancement in technology has led to increasing integrity of electronic-learning courses and also language learning courses. The objective of this study is to examine...

The consensus of studies of undergraduate principles of economics is that the online format is inferior to the traditional lecture format. However in the handful of studies of principles taught at the MBA level the evidence tilts to the conclusion of no significant difference. This study...

In this paper we describe how we used Facebook as a complementary tool to our LMS. We collected data on student usage and surveyed student opinion in several online/blended sections. Our hypothesis is that our empirical analysis will find a positive correlation between student usage of Facebook...

A needs assessment was conducted for the adaptation of an existing online Cooperative Extension investment course for use by farm households. The theoretical model was Social Marketing Theory. Data about financial attitudes, practices, and learning preferences of farm households were collected...

Advances in communication technologies have provided alternative ways to deliver instruction to learners. With the availability of the Internet as a learning tool, educators are able to use this instrument for course delivery. This study takes an empirical look at course design and delivery...