Search Results - subject:"E‑Learning"

The Significance of Self-Esteem in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Environment

Tayebinik, Maryam; Puteh, Marlia - 2015

Self-esteem is one of the psychological variables which a language learning and academic achievement. This study aims to demonstrate the significance of self-esteem in the process of language learning and highlights the importance of dealing with such a psychological variable in Computer...

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Leveraging E-Commerce to Stand Up an Online Educational Program

Ray, Jeffrey - 2015

This paper defines how an online educational program can be established for any university, and proposes how the university might leverage existing E-commerce products and services to create and operate an effective team learning environment. While implementing the online program, universities...

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Application and Impacts of Mobile Learning : A Case Study in Technology for Sustainable Distance Learning

Chandran, Subramaniam - 2015

This paper examines the application and impacts of Mobile learning in providing sustainable distance learning in the case of developing countries having multiethnic social environment. The sustainability is conditioned by the structure of learners and well as the teaching community. This paper...

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The Role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Integration in E-Learning Education in Rwanda : Case Study of Higher Learning Institutions

Hakizimana, Joseph - 2015

E-learning has become the main stream among higher education institutions. Courses in various fields are offered online … intended to analyze the role of ICT integration into teaching and learning method through e-learning. The results showed that … all 4 studied higher learning institutes did not establish an e-learning system. The proposed solution is to implement a …

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Assessing the Impact of Blended Learning on Student Performance

Kwak, Do; Menezes, Flávio Marques; Sherwood, Carl - 2015

This paper assesses quantitatively the impact on student performance of a blended learning experiment within a large undergraduate first‐year course in statistics for business and economics students. We employ a difference‐in‐differences method, which controls for differences in student...

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Virtual Learning Communities : Success Factors and Challenges

Wegener, René; Leimeister, J. M. - 2015

Despite their didactical potential many Virtual Learning Communities (VLCs) fail in enhancing learning outcomes. Therefore, we synthesise factors most critical for establishing a successful VLC. Applying a structured literature review, we searched for studies dealing with VLCs in the well known...

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Online versus Face-to-Face Instruction : Analysis of Gender and Course Format in Undergraduate Business Statistics Courses

Flanagan, Jennifer - 2015

With the dramatic increase of online business degree programs, the question of the effectiveness of online courses has been front and center. Do these once primarily face-to-face courses successfully transfer to online-only formats without losing student productivity? Do the new formats still...

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Interactive Forms of Teaching in Educational Process of a University

Shukiyrova, Margarita - 2015

The article is dedicated to the questions related to the introduction of teaching into educational process of a university as a basis of self developing reflexively organized innovative professional activity. Having emphasized psycho-dynamic process initiated by interactive methods of teaching...

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Can Online Learning Bend the Higher Education Cost Curve?

Deming, David J.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2015

We examine whether online learning technologies have led to lower prices in higher education. Using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, we show that online education is concentrated in large for-profit chains and less-selective public institutions. Colleges with a...

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Promoting Critical Thinking in Online Discussion Threads : Lessons Learned Teaching Economics

Onodipe, Grace - 2015

This study investigates factors that promote substantive posts and higher order critical thinking in online discussion. The authors compared weekly discussion threads from two online Principles of Macroeconomics courses taught in 2008 and 2011. The 2008 class was considered a low-structure class...

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