ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
E-Learning and Lifelong Learning
Author: Mouzakitis, George S.
Date: 2011-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Electronic Learning,Economic Development,Global Approach,Lifelong Learning,Guidelines,Educational Development,Education Work Relationship,Labor Force Development,Program Implementation,Educational Needs,Adult Learning,Educational Trends,International Education,Influence of Technology,College Instruction,College Role,Educational Change

It is supported that the object of education is to provide results. Hence, it is of crucial importance to economic development globally. In our era, globalization is a highly disputable event with strong persuasive arguments and equally solid disagreements. The impact of globalization in our everyday activities has been increased. In parallel, technological developments have contributed considerably to dramatic changes in economic, social and educational sectors. Globalization trends and technological developments demand from enterprises and educational organizations innovative ways of business practices and educational delivery in order to cope with the real market demands. Educational planners and policy makers have been trying to design new curricula in an attempt to adequately prepare the workforce to meet the current market requirements. Yet, the anticipated results have not been attained mainly because traditional educational systems proved to be inadequate to link the supply of knowledge and skills with the contemporary needs. This paper will connect e-learning educational/training courses delivery with lifelong learning (LLL). It will further analyze certain factors from the professional and educational point of view and provide recommendations on how to accelerate the implementation of LLL supported by e-learning. (Contains 1 figure.)
Investigating Agricultural Instructors' Attitudes toward E-Learning in Iran
Author: Mohammadi, Davoud
Date: 2011-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Electronic Learning,Agricultural Education,Online Courses,Statistical Analysis,Teacher Motivation,Distance Education,Technology Integration,Educational Technology,Computer Assisted Instruction,College Instruction,College Faculty,Teacher Attitudes,Educational Policy,Guidelines,Questionnaires,Teacher Surveys,Predictor Variables

With the rapid changes in all types of learning and teaching environments, there is a need to implement electronic learning (e-learning) to train students with new technologies. However the trend of using e-learning as learning and/or teaching tool is now rapidly expanding into education. Although e-learning environments are popular, there is minimal research on agricultural instructors' attitudes toward these kinds of learning environments. The purpose of this study is to explore agricultural instructors' attitudes toward e-learning usage. A descriptive-correlation survey approach was used in this study. Accordingly, 175 instructors in 64 agricultural education centers are asked to answer questionnaires for investigating their attitudes. Data were collected by mailing the questionnaire. After statistical analysis, the results demonstrate that instructors have positive attitude toward using e-learning as a teaching assisted tool. Intrinsic incentives and motivators for acceptance of e-learning are important than extrinsic incentives and motivators. Based on the findings, this research proposes guidelines for developing e-learning environments in agricultural education. (Contains 4 tables.)
The &quot;Community Services&quot; Course through Distance Education: Evaluation of Primary School Students
Author: Sakar, A. Nurhan
Date: 2011-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Distance Education,Blended Learning,Web Based Instruction,Program Evaluation,Questionnaires,Curriculum Development,Community Services,Higher Education,Introductory Courses,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Volunteers,Social Responsibility,Teacher Education Curriculum,Elementary School Students,Student Attitudes,Satisfaction,School Community Relationship,Tutorial Programs,After School Programs,Low Income Groups,Service Learning,School Community Programs,Citizenship Education,Course Evaluation,College School Cooperation

In 2006, following the Bologna Process, Turkish Council of Higher Education (YOK) adopted a resolution and changed the curriculum of teacher training higher education institutions. This curriculum revision introduced a new course called &quot;Community Service&quot; which aims to raise students' awareness of their responsibilities as individuals to the community in which they live. Through this course, students are expected to realize individuals can make a difference by volunteering to share their knowledge and skills with the community. This study presents one application of Community Service course. This application is of interest because it was researched whether the course achieved its aim by evaluating the satisfaction level of primary school students at whose schools English survey courses given within the scope of Open Education Faculty Distance English Language Teaching (DELT) Program. (Contains 8 tables.)
Managerial Perception of Education in the Educational Non-Governmental Organizations
Author: Arslan, Mehmet Metin
Date: 2011-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Qualitative Research,Social Environment,Nongovernmental Organizations,Interviews,Educational Objectives,Technical Assistance,Organizational Objectives,Organizational Theories,Relevance (Education),Cultural Context,Educational Attitudes,Phenomenology,Semi Structured Interviews,Administrator Attitudes,Educational Opportunities,Distance Education,Stakeholders,Foreign Countries,Educational Policy,Performance Factors

The aim of this research is to determine the educational NGO managers' perceptions of education in the city of Kirikkale. The sample of this qualitative research, which has been conducted on a case pattern basis, comprises managers from 13 educational non-governmental organizations in the province of Kirikkale. Data were collected by the researcher himself through direct contact and interview with the participants. The interview form was developed based on the opinions from experts in the field. The concordance between the sentential codifications was checked by an independent observer and the researcher in order to ensure data reliability. The coefficient of concordance between the observers was calculated as 0.87 for the sociopolitical perceptions dimension of education and 0.90 for the perceptions regarding the position and importance of the organizations, which were included in the present research, in the system. Participant confirmation method was used for the validity of the data. Some remarkable results of the research are as follows: The participants (1) failed to relate the aims of educational organizations to the general public; (2) basically engaged in aid-oriented activities; (3) expected aid from the government; (4) tended to look at education and its problems from an economic viewpoint; (5) neglected the philosophical and scientific dimensions of the problem; and (6) made individual assessments with no relevance to the social context.
Opinions of Elementary Level EFL Learners on the Use of Weblogs
Author: Istifci, Ilknur
Date: 2011-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Web Sites,Electronic Publishing,Distance Education,Opinions,Virtual Classrooms,Language Skills,English (Second Language),English,Web 2.0 Technologies,Student Attitudes,English Language Learners,Second Language Learning,Questionnaires,Interviews,Second Language Programs,Educational Technology,Foreign Countries,College Students,Writing Assignments

Technology is an indispensable part of our lives and education cannot be taught without it. Since technology is in every part of our lives, foreign language education also makes use of the new technology. By the use of the Internet, virtual classrooms and materials are easy to access and learning takes place beyond the boundaries of the classrooms. Weblogs or blogs are one of the tools that are used to teach language skills in EFL courses and students have a chance to reflect on what they wrote in the blogs. The aim of this study is to find the opinions of elementary level EFL learners on using weblogs and distance education. The subjects of the study were 10 Native speakers of English in London and 15 Turkish EFL learners who are learning English in the School of Foreign Languages. Turkish EFL learners created a class blog and every week they were given assignments by their class teacher. They wrote paragraphs and they gave and receive feedback on their writing in terms of content, vocabulary and grammar by their classmates and by native English speakers in a virtual environment. This procedure lasted for 6 weeks. At the end of 6 weeks, students were given an evaluation questionnaire and they were asked to write their opinions about using weblogs. They were also interviewed by their teacher and the opinions of the students were categorized. Findings indicate that the students found the idea of weblogs as a distant learning tool motivating, enjoyable and encouraging. (Contains 1 table.)
Teaching Law to Online Law Students at RMIT University
Author: Babacan, Alperhan
Date: 2011-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Learner Engagement,Law Students,Online Courses,Active Learning,Program Effectiveness,Student Evaluation,Course Descriptions,Blended Learning,Web 2.0 Technologies,Role Playing,Vignettes,Class Activities,Computer Mediated Communication,Instructional Design,Distance Education,Web Based Instruction,College Instruction,Legal Education (Professions),Law Schools,Program Descriptions,Educational Principles,Educational Strategies,Discussion,Asynchronous Communication

This paper discusses the online Juris Doctor Program (JD Program) at RMIT University. The first part of the paper provides a brief overview of the JD Program, the graduate capabilities of the Program and key principles associated with the teaching of law to online postgraduate students. In line with the literature in the area of online teaching and learning, it is argued that online education needs to facilitate deep learning and needs to be based on principles relating to student engagement and active participation. The second part of the paper showcases some of the courses that are taught on an online basis in the JD Program. A blended approach is adapted to the teaching of the advocacy as well as the Negotiation and Dispute Resolution courses. The Contracts Law course adopts a conversational framework to engage online law students. In discussing the online teaching and assessment practices in this course, the paper demonstrates how the teaching and assessment practices in these courses enhance deep learning and graduate skills and attributes essential for law students through premising the activities on principles relating to active learning and deep learning. (Contains 33 endnotes.)
An Inquiry into Benefits of Reflective Practice in Open and Distance Learning
Author: Athar Hussain, Muhammad
Date: 2011-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Open Universities,Distance Education,Reflective Teaching,Student Problems,Learning Processes,Graduate Students,Learning Strategies,Problem Solving,Reflection,Counseling,Student Personnel Services,Behavior Change,Preservice Teacher Education,Educational Technology,College Students,Student Attitudes,Questionnaires,Statistical Analysis

Innovations in learning with conscious thinking result in conceptual and effective learning. New strategies and techniques of learning aim at bringing about change in behavior that might help in solving problems of the individual at local and global level. This paper inquires into benefits of Reflective Practice in Open and Distance Learning in Pakistan. A questionnaire was administered among 40 students doing masters in Education, autumn 2009, at Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad. Collected data were analyzed by calculating percentage and Mean scores of each item. An interview was conducted to validate the quantitative data. Findings showed that Reflective Practice helped learner in solving their learning problems and learners were able to cope with problems with their conscious effort. The respondents were agreed that consultation with friends and discussion with senior colleagues benefited them in solving problems involved in their learning. The respondents acceded that counseling for selection of subjects and institution, their past experiences and self-reports were useful in teaching-learning process and solving their learning problems. The respondents were of the opinion that reflective practice helps in solving learning problems and in bringing improvement in their behavior. The findings also indicated that lack of counseling, time and resources caused problems in becoming reflective and committed person. Keeping the findings in view, it is recommended that reflective practice might be promoted among students with the help of counselors, teachers, senior students, books and journals. Extensive counseling be provided to students at postgraduate level and curricula should be made innovative.
Fuzzy Logic in Legal Education
Author: Balkir, Z. Gonul
Date: 2011-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Legal Education (Professions),Law Students,Social Sciences,Logical Thinking,Court Litigation,Lawyers,Case Method (Teaching Technique),Educational Principles,Research Methodology,Inquiry,Learning Processes,Learning Strategies,Ambiguity (Context),Distance Education

The necessity of examination of every case within its peculiar conditions in social sciences requires different approaches complying with the spirit and nature of social sciences. Multiple realities require different and various perceptual interpretations. In modern world and social sciences, interpretation of perception of valued and multi-valued have been started to be understood by the principles of fuzziness and fuzzy logic. Having the verbally expressible degrees of truthness such as true, very true, rather true, etc. fuzzy logic provides the opportunity for the interpretation of especially complex and rather vague set of information by flexibility or equivalence of the variables of fuzzy limitations. The methods and principles of fuzzy logic can be benefited in examination of the methodological problems of law, especially in the applications of filling the legal loopholes arising from the ambiguities and interpretation problems in order to understand the legal rules in a more comprehensible and applicable way and the efficiency of legal implications. On the other hand, fuzzy logic can be used as a technical legal method in legal education and especially in legal case studies and legal practice applications in order to provide the perception of law as a value and the more comprehensive and more quality perception and interpretation of value of justice, which is the core value of law. In the perception of what happened as it has happened in legal relationships and formations, the understanding of social reality and sociological legal rules with multi valued sense perspective and their applications in accordance with the fuzzy logic's methods could create more equivalent and just results. It can be useful for the young lawyers and law students as a facilitating legal method especially in the materialization of the perception and interpretation of multi valued and variables. Using methods and principles of fuzzy logic in legal education, more quality and just legal interpretations can be achieved by synchronously dealing with non-contradicting different perspectives of legal realities.
Using Wikis as a Support and Assessment Tool in Collaborative Digital Game-Based Learning Environments
Author: Samur, Yavuz
Date: 2011-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Instructional Design,Learning Activities,Evaluation Methods,Cooperative Learning,Scaffolding (Teaching Technique),Group Activities,Web 2.0 Technologies,Educational Games,Educational Technology,Computer Assisted Instruction

In computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments, there are many researches done on collaborative learning activities; however, in game-based learning environments, more research and literature on collaborative learning activities are required.  Actually, both game-based learning environments and wikis enable us to use new chances for learning, especially in collaborative learning activities. Therefore, in this paper, related literature on wikis and how game & instructional designers can leverage from wikis in game-based learning settings for enhancing students' collaborative learning activities are examined. Based on the reviewed literature, two main suggestions are given in this paper with their underlying reasons.  First, using wikis as a support tool for enhancing collaboration in digital game-based learning (DGBL) environments, and second using wikis as an assessment tool in DGBL are suggested.
A More Effective Way to Advertise the Distance Education Programmes: Mobile Marketing Approach
Author: Sabuncuoglu Aybar, Ayda
Date: 2011-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Advertising,Distance Education,Audiences,Global Approach,Marketing,Handheld Devices,Institutional Advancement,Performance Factors,Information Technology,Program Effectiveness,Influence of Technology,Computer Mediated Communication

Nowadays organizations strive to find the ways to communicate with their target audiences by using varied advertising mediums because of the developments on the information communication technologies and the globalization. In this context, like the other institutions, the distance education institutions has to execute communication activities by using different advertising mediums to create a positive position in their consumers minds. In this sense, the increase on the ownership of mobile phones and the new specialties of mobile phone technologies like accessing to the internet made mobile marketing efforts important on the advertising investments of distance education institutions. Especially with the mobile marketing, distance education institutions can create personalized informative and promotion messages for their target audiences. Mobile marketing approach has lots of advantages for the institutions and the most important advantages that helps the institutions are; the formats of the approach are forming according to the newest technological developments and it gives chance to create messages for specific target audiences. But mobile marketing has also disadvantages like; the target audience's mobile phones can be incompatible with the messages and the target audience can ignore these messages. However much the approach has some disadvantages, the distance education institutions--which are based on the technological developments also like the mobile marketing approach--has to invest on mobile marketing according to send personalized and effective advertising messages about their programs' contents, benefits etc. (Contains 6 online resources.)
Cost-Effective, Equitable and Flexible Higher Education through Open and Distance Learning in Bangladesh
Author: Islam, Tofazzal
Date: 2011-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Higher Education,Distance Education,Foreign Countries,Television,Access to Education,Open Universities,Enrollment Influences,Cost Effectiveness,Educational Opportunities,Annual Reports,Case Studies,Program Descriptions,Employee Attitudes,Student Attitudes,Graduate Surveys,Educational Quality,Academic Achievement,Change Strategies,Delivery Systems,Institutional Characteristics,Community Education

This paper examines how this mega-university offers increasing access to cost-effective, equitable and flexible higher education by analyzing data from primary and secondary sources, identifies challenges impacting the continued growth of enrollment in distance education, and outlines opportunities for increasing access to higher education through scaling of distance initiatives. For pedagogic delivery, BOU uses both the conventional face-to-face tutorial system based on print module and electronic learning technologies such as CD, audiovisual cassettes, and radio and TV broadcasts. It revealed that BOU education is flexible, cost-effective, and insensitive to gender and geography and of standard comparable to that of the conventional universities. The reasons behind the success and cost-effectiveness of BOU programs were: (1) BOU has access to any government and non-government infrastructures and resources without any cost or with nominal costs and can engage specialists from any institution for tutoring with a small honorarium; (2) it broadcasts program free of cost through government-owned radio and TV channels; (3) the demand for higher education is very high due to seat limitations only 4-5% of students get the chance to enroll in public universities after their HSC; and (4) the degree/diploma/certificate of BOU is accepted by all as equivalent to those of conventional public universities. Survey of opinions from students of different programs identified the problems in the current system and proposed alternatives to mitigate them by applying some innovative interactive and flexible learning technologies including mobile phone. Considering the success of BOU and to accommodate the huge demand of higher education, conventional universities should also open their doors for ICT-mediated cost-effective and flexing learning to make the vision of knowledge-based &quot;digital Bangladesh&quot; a reality by the year 2021. (Contains 6 figures and 2 tables.)
Key Factors for Determining Student Satisfaction in Distance Learning Courses: A Study of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Islamabad, Pakistan
Author: Ali, Afzaal
Date: 2011-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Open Universities,Distance Education,Course Evaluation,Program Effectiveness,Foreign Countries,Participant Satisfaction,Student Attitudes,Performance Factors,Predictor Variables,Teacher Student Relationship,Aptitude Treatment Interaction,Teacher Effectiveness,Delivery Systems,Intermode Differences,Questionnaires,Educational Quality

In this paper, the primary objective of the research team was to find out the relationship between student satisfaction and the following variables of the distance learning environment: instructors' performance, course evaluation and student-instructor interaction. The sample consisted of 245 students of Allama Iqbal Open University of Pakistan. The purpose of this study was to address the most recent problem of AIOU students relevant to their distance learning. The problem was that most of the people in Pakistan perceived distance learning as poorer quality. Therefore, the researchers conducted this study to find out whether it's only people perception or there is any thing in reality about the poorer outcome of the distance learning students as compare to traditional students. By using correlation, regression and descriptive analysis, it was found that just like the traditional education, in distance learning education at AIOU, enough interaction take place between students and their instructors, courses are up to date and well designed, instructors are devoted, motivated and equipped with the required skill and knowledge. Moreover, the faculty at AIOU is delivering distance learning courses that meet the students' needs in regard to students-instructor interaction, instructor performance and course evaluation. (Contains 5 tables.)