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This study investigated the properties of an online course and it aims to examine how the ICT environment develops academic writing ability in a course on sociolinguistics – the study of the relationship between language and society and society and language with regard to topics such as second language acquisition, mother tongue, linguistic diversity, dialects, diglossia, language and identity, linguistic policy, and linguistic-educational policy. The preliminary research findings demonstrate that the online course accords actual added value to learning and contributes to the sum total of the quality of self-learning and its compatibility with the spirit of today's demands. The online course enriches the ways of learning and empowers the study experience.
Published: 2016
Updated: Aug. 10, 2016
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This article describes the ways opportunities and constraints in online mathematics teacher education (OMTE) and the authors' view of learning encouraged a deeper consideration of the role of environment in their teaching practice. Central to this discussion are the authors' values and the understandings mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) bring to OMTE and the conflicts between understandings of the online environment and views of learning that undergirded the instructional activities created. This article focuses on the MTEs’ development as teachers in online environments.
Published: 2014
Updated: Aug. 11, 2015
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This study aimed to investigate the impact of a yearlong, online teacher professional development (oTPD) program, Prime Online, on teachers’ mathematics knowledge for teaching (MKT) and to examine the components of a PD program that impacted participants’ MKT. The analysis indicates latent growth modeling and focus group data indicated growth in participants’ content knowledge and initial growth in knowledge of students from pretest to midtest, with a decline at the end of the program. The authors conclude that that Prime Online has potential to provide teachers with ongoing, rigorous, high-quality learning opportunities for impacting their knowledge of mathematics content and pedagogy and of their students.
Published: 2015
Updated: Jul. 22, 2015
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The current study examined the impact of a deeper approach to learning on pre-service teachers’ critical thinking and metacognitive skills. The study also examined the impact on student learning outcomes within a project based module with a significant design element. The findings reveal that the quality of students’ reflections through peer feedback and overall satisfaction with the module remained high despite students’ citing a preference for instructor feedback.
Published: 2012
Updated: Jan. 11, 2015
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate exemplary online teachers’ transition to online teaching with a specific focus on the successful practices. The findings show that when teachers described their successful practices, they often attended to their changing roles and representation of their “selves” within an online classroom. The authors found that teachers struggled to make themselves visible and heard in online environments by constantly challenging their already established roles and assumptions toward learning and teaching. They build their teacher personas by drawing their knowledge and experiences from different sources, such as their own experiences as learners in online classrooms and observations of other online teachers.
Published: 2013
Updated: Oct. 16, 2013
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The authors’ goal was to improve their online environment by testing and modifying it to support teachers' development of deep, connected understandings of school mathematics and to find ways to make use of the teachers' learning as a context for subsequent mathematical and pedagogical development. The authors propose a model for developing mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) in an online environment. The authors believe that their model for Online Asynchronous Collaboration (OAC) is a promising practice in teacher education.
Published: 2010
Updated: Feb. 21, 2010
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The aim of this article is to clarify the university teacher roles and competencies in online learning environments, with a view to assisting in the design of professional development activities. This referential framework results from an extensive review of the literature and from analyzing professional development designed in different European universities.
Published: 2009
Updated: Oct. 13, 2009
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This paper is derived from the qualitative portion of a larger study conducted on mathematics websites that provide expert volunteer help. The researcher has employed theories about expertise in the educational domain to elicit details of individual coping strategies with challenges posed by the online environment, including students' non-responsiveness and issues of academic honesty. The researcher suggests that best practices must include both pedagogical and tutor training/support considerations.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jun. 24, 2009
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The author suggests that in order to prepare young people for online civic participation, a publicly supported virtual laboratory of democracy should be created. Such a laboratory will enable young people to become socialized to an online civic society and to learn how to act—in a civic manner—upon issues of importance to them and the larger society.
Published: 2008
Updated: Mar. 02, 2009
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In this paper, the authors sought to understand how teachers chose to integrate a hybrid online education program in their classrooms, how students responded to this choice, and how students' experiences were influenced by the integration model chosen by the teachers. The authors discuss four integration models in the context of hybrid online education and particularly in adventure learning. Finally, the authors provide recommendations for the design, development, implementation, and integration of hybrid online education programs.
Published: 2008
Updated: Nov. 17, 2008