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An evaluation of the influence of e-learning in adult education with special reference to the employees of Parliament RSAMbuli, Fikile 10 1900 (has links)
This study was devoted to researching the effectiveness of e-learning, in terms of the reported experiences of the Language Services section employees in Parliament RSA. At present, the internet is seen as a successful and influential educational tool in both academic and corporate institutions. Academically, it has been adopted for e-learning methods of teaching and learning. It is perceived as a cost-effective method of providing lifelong education. It is important to know about the pros and cons of e-learning in adult education and compare them with the experiences of the people who are and have been engaged in adult education. To create an adult education skills development framework that can be used successfully in e-learning, it is important to get information about and from the people concerned regarding their learning experiences. To understand more about the influence of e-learning, this study administered a questionnaire to the employees of the Language Services Section of Parliament who participated in the pilot learning programmes offered by Parliament. The questionnaire was designed to gather structured responses from the participants in the inquiry. The results were studied and applied to draw recommendations for what can be improved in the programme to promote and endorse continuing learning experiences as is the aim of the in-house programme offered by Parliament. The study also has relevance in terms of a discussion of issues that arise in the literature on adult education, which were located as part of the study. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Adult Education)
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A comparison of first-semester organic chemistry students' experiences and mastery of curved-arrow formalism in face-to-face and cyber peer-led team learningWilson, Sarah Beth 03 December 2015 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The cyber Peer-Led Team Learning (cPLTL) workshops are a synchronous online adaptation of the educational intervention PLTL, in which students, under the guidance of undergraduate peer facilitators, collaboratively solve problems in small groups. The purpose of this parallel convergent mixed methods study was to assess the impact of implementing cPLTL in an organic chemistry course on students’ workshop experiences, performance, and development of curved-arrow formalism skills. Statistical analyses revealed comparable attendance rates, distribution of course grades, and achievement on American Chemical Society First-semester Organic Chemistry Exams. However, plotting workshop grades by AB, C, and DFW grade groupings revealed that PLTL students earned more successful grades than their cPLTL counterparts (91% vs 77% ABC grades). Utilization of a new curved-arrow formalism analytic framework for coding student interview artifacts revealed that cPLTL students were statistically less likely to successfully draw the product suggested by the curved-arrows than their PLTL classmates. Both PLTL and cPLTL students exhibited a comparable incidence of relational to instrumental learning approaches. Similarly, both PLTL and cPLTL
students were more likely to exhibit a common Scheme for Problem-Solving in Organic Chemistry (SPOC) than having dialogue that could be characterized by Toulmin’s Argumentation scheme. Lastly, implications for faculty are suggested, including: developing more explicit connections concept, mode, and reasoning components of understanding curved-arrow formalism for organic chemistry students; optimizing graphical collaborative learning activities for online learners; and developing online students’ sense of community.
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Nursing students' perceptions of presence in online coursesVan Schyndel, Jennie L. 27 August 2015 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Lack of presence in online courses can result in perceived isolation leading to student dissatisfaction with the learning experience. The purpose of this study was to measure nursing students' perceived extent of teaching, social and cognitive presence and course satisfaction in an online undergraduate nursing course, and whether relationships and associations existed between the three presences, course satisfaction, student demographic, academic, and technology variables, and selected instructional strategies. The Community of Inquiry theory was the framework used in this descriptive correlational study of RN-BSN students (n= 76). Variables were measured using the Community of Inquiry Survey and the Perceived Student Satisfaction Scale instruments, and a researcher developed survey. Findings indicated students' perceived teaching and cognitive presence were present to a greater extent than social presence. Significant positive correlations (p < .01) were found between teaching and cognitive presence (r =.79), cognitive and social presence (r =.64), teaching and social presence (r =.52), satisfaction and the teaching (r =.77), social (r =.63), and cognitive (r =.52) presences. There were no significant findings associated with age, ethnicity, race, number of online courses taken, expected course grade or GPA and perceptions of the three presences and course satisfaction. There was a significant difference (p ≤ .05) with gender and perceived social presence with male students reporting stronger levels. Students experiencing course technology difficulties reported significantly (p ≤ .05) lower perceptions of teaching presence than those experiencing no difficulty. Significant differences (p ≤ .05) were found between specific course instructional strategies and each presence and course satisfaction. The findings provide faculty with an understanding of online course management and teaching/learning strategies that may increase students' perceptions of presence in online courses and improve student satisfaction with online learning.
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Proposing a New System Architecture for Next Generation Learning EnvironmentAboualizadehbehbahani, Maziar January 2016 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The emergence of information exchange and act of offering features through external interfaces is a vast but immensely valuable challenge, and essential elements of learning environments cannot be excluded. Nowadays, there are a lot of different service providers working in the learning systems market and each of them has their own advantages. On that premise, in today's world even large learning management systems are trying to cooperate with each other in order to be best. For instance, Instructure is a substantial company and can easily employ a dedicated team tasked with the development of a video conferencing functionality, but it chooses to use an open source alternative instead: The BigBlueButton. Unfortunately, different learning system manufacturers are using different technologies for various reasons, making integration that much harder.
Standards in learning environments have come to resolve problems regarding exchanging information, providing and consuming functionalities externally and simultaneously minimizing the amount of effort needed to integrate systems. In addition to defining and simplifying these standards, careful consideration is essential when designing new, comprehensive and useful systems, as well as adding interoperability to existing systems, all which subsequently took part in this research.
In this research I have reviewed most of the standards and protocols for integration in learning environments and proposed a revised approach for app stores in learning environments. Finally, as a case study, a learning tool has been developed to avail essential functionalities of a social educational learning management system integrated with other learning management systems. This tool supports the dominant and most popular standards for interoperability and can be added to learning management systems within seconds.
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E-learning technologies for open distance learning knowledge acquisition in managerial accountingKashora, Trust 07 1900 (has links)
This research seeks to establish how e-learning may contribute towards knowledge
construction for Management Accounting students at the University of South Africa.
More specifically, the research is designed to investigate how educational
technologies like e-learning may benefit and improve the teaching and learning of
Management Accounting at Unisa. Educators need to understand how students learn
so that they can establish suitable learning strategies. Studies have shown that
generally, e-learning applications are little used, sometimes because of inappropriate
content and technologies. Other prohibitive factors are costs, poor or inadequate
technology infrastructure and a shortage of human resources. On the strength of a
comprehensive literature survey, a framework to address and manage challenging
aspects of teaching and e-learning were developed. Problem areas and critical
success factors were considered.
The said framework ought to assist with organising complex issues and reveal parts
that need further work. The utility of the framework was evaluated through a staged
process. First, it was tested and evaluated through the model of a lecture. Secondly,
both qualitative and quantitative surveys among university lectures and students were
conducted to further confirm the applicability of the framework. Though the outcome
of the validations were satisfactory, more research needs to be carried out over a
longer period of time in order to determine the scalability of the framework and to
remove any inconsistencies. Aspects of the framework could be used to incorporate ICTs, e.g. the use of spreadsheets and the Learning Village into communities of
practice. / Hierdie navorsing poog om vas te stel hoe e-leer kan bydra tot kenniskonstruksie vir
Bestuursrekeningkunde-studente aan die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika. Die navorsing
is meer spesifiek ontwerp om vas te stel hoe opvoedkundetegnologieë soos e-leer die
onderrig en leer van Bestuursrekeningkunde by Unisa kan bevorder en verbeter.
Opvoeders moet verstaan hoe studente leer sodat hulle geskikte leerstrategieë kan
ontwikkel. Studies toon dat e-leertoepassings normaalweg min gebruik word, soms
omdat die inhoud en tegnologieë nie toepaslik is nie. Ander faktore wat dit belemmer,
sluit in onkoste, swak of onvoldoende tegnologie-infrastruktuur en ’n tekort aan
mensehulpbronne. ’n Raamwerk om die uitdagings van onderrig en e-leer te bestuur,
is op grond van ’n omvattende literatuurstudie ontwikkel. Probleemareas en kritiese
suksesfaktore is in gedagte gehou.
Die genoemde raamwerk behoort van nut te wees vir die organisering van
ingewikkelde kwessies en toon watter dele verdere werk vereis. Die bruikbaarheid van
die raamwerk is deur middel van ’n stapsgewyse proses geëvalueer. Eerstens is dit
getoets en geëvalueer op grond van ’n lesingsmodel. Tweedens is kwalitatiewe en
kwantitatiewe meningspeilings geloods; sowel universiteitsdosente as -studente is
versoek om die toepaslikheid van die raamwerk te bevestig. Alhoewel die uitkoms van
die validasies bevredigend was, moet verdere navorsing oor ’n langer tydperk gedoen
word om die skaleerbaarheid van die raamwerk te bepaal en enige teenstrydighede
uit die weg te ruim. Aspekte van die raamwerk kan gebruik word om IKT’s, bv die gebruik van sigblaaie en die Learning Village, by praktyksgemeenskappe te
inkorporeer. / Ucwaningo lufuna ukuthola ukuthi ngabe ukufunda nge-e-learning noma ngendlela yeelektroniki
kungafaka kanjani esivivaneni ekwakheni ulwazi kubafundi be-
Management Accounting eYunivesithi yeNingizimu Afrika noma i-University of South
Africa. Ngokuqonde ngqo, ucwaningo ludizayinwe ukuthi luphenyisise ngkouthi
amatheknoloji emfundo afana ne-e-learning angaba nenzuzo kanjani kanye
nokuthuthukisa ukufunda nokufundisa kwi-Management Accounting eUnisa.
Abafundisi kudingeke baqondisise ukuthi izitshudeni zifunda kanjani ukuze bakwazi
ukuthola amasu afanele okufunda. Izinhlaka eziningi zocwaningo ezenziwe zibonise
ukuthi ngokunabile, ama-application amaningi e-e-learning asetshenziswa kancane,
kodwa ngesinye isikhathi lokhu kubangelwa wukuthi kusuke kunengqikithi
engahambisani kahle ngokufanele kanye namatheknoloji angafanele. Ezinye izinto
eziyizihibe, zindleko, ingqalasizinda ye-theknoloji yezinga eliphansi noma engenele
kahle kanye nokusweleka kwabantu abawusizo. Ngokulandela imibhalo efundwe
ngokujulile, kwenziwe uhlaka lokubhekana nokuphatha izinselele maqondana
nokufunda nokufundisa kwase kwenziwa nge-e-learning. Kubonelelwe nemikhakhe
enezinkinga kanye nokubhekana nezindawo ezinomphumela obambekayo
nobalulekile.
Uhlaka okukhulunywa ngalo kumele lusize ekuhleleni izinto eziyisixakaxaka kanye
nokuveza izingxenye ezisadinga ukuthi kubhekwane nazo ukuzixazulula.
Ukusetshenziswa kohlaka kuye kwahlolwa ngezinqubo ezinezigaba. Esokuqala isigaba, siye sathestwa kanye nokuhlolwa ngokusebenzisa imodela yesifundo.
Esesibili isigaba, besingesokwenza ama-qualitative nama-quantitative survey
kubafundisi baseyunivesithi kanye nabafundi, ukuqinisekisa ukusebenza kahle
kohlaka. Ngisho noma ukubheka imiphumela yokuqinisekisa uhlolo ibiyenelisa,
kusadingeka ukuthi kwenziwe olunye ucwaningo, esikhathini eside ukuze
ukusetshenziswa kohlaka kuye ngokungezeleka ukubandakanya iningi (scalability),
kanye nokuqeda izinto ezenza ukuthi kube nokwehluka-hluka nokungahambelani
kahle ekusetshenzisweni (inconsistencies). Izingxenye zohlaka zingasetshenziswa
ukwengamela ama-ICTs, isib. ukusetshenziswa kwama-spreadsheets kanye ne-
Learning Village kulawo maqembu asebenzisa uhlaka. / Management Accounting / Ph. D. (Accounting Science)
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