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Learners' Perspectives on what is Missing from Online Learning: Interpretations through... - 0 views

  • Concerns surrounding the lack of physical presence in an online learning environment have led researchers to investigate the concept of presence when learning online
  • Early work focused on social presence and the idea of participation and belonging
  • Social presence is a factor that contributes to building a community of learners
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  • "the degree of feeling, perception, and reaction to another intellectual entity in the CMC environment"
  • "feeling intimacy or togetherness in terms of sharing time and place"
  • "the ability of learners to project themselves socially and emotionally in a community of inquiry"
  • Five themes regarding what learners perceived was missing from their online learning experience emerged: robustness of online dialogue, spontaneity and improvisation, perceiving and being perceived by the other, getting to know others, and learning to be an online learner.
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The foundations and assumptions of technology-enhanced student-centered learning enviro... - 0 views

  • Learning systems are needed that encourage divergent reasoning, problem solving, and critical thinking
  • With the emergence of technology, many barriers to implementing innovative alternatives may be overcom
  • Student-centered learning environments have been touted as a means to support such processes.
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  • With the emergence of technology, many barriers to implementing innovative alternatives may be overcome
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Seven Principles for good practice in undergraduate education - 0 views

  • Encourages contact between students and faculty
  • Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students
  • Encourages active learning.
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  • Gives prompt feedback
  • Emphasizes time on task
  • Communicates high expectations
  • Respects diverse talents and ways of learning
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Taylor & Francis Online :: The Cognitive Perspective on Learning: Its Theoretical Under... - 0 views

  • Behaviorism as a teacher-centered instructional framework for a long time dominated educational settings, shaping every aspect of curriculum and instruction.
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The Rewards of Effective Facilitation of Online Learners - 0 views

  • Today with electronic bulletin boards, discussion boards, e-mail discussion groups, or chat areas, online learning can be interactive.
  • To reach non-traditional students and to meet their educational needs around the world, more colleges are turning to distance education. Current instructional technology can potentially provide effective learner-centered, personalized education for non-traditional, non-residential students around the globe. As students and faculty move from traditional, on-site learning and teaching, they must learn to make the necessary adjustments.
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The Role of the Online Instructor/Facilitator - Reading 2-1 instructor role.pdf - 0 views

  • The facilitator must make participants comfortable with the system and the software that the conference is using.
  • This role involves setting the agenda for the conference: the objectives of the discussion, the timetable, procedural rules and decision-making norms.
  • Creating a friendly, social environment in which learning is promoted is also essential for successful moderating
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  • Certainly, some of the most important roles of online discussion moderator/tutor revolves around their duties as an educational facilitator
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Learning Styles - 1 views

  • by seeing and hearing, reflecting and acting, reasoning logically and intuitively, analyzing and visualizing, steadily and in fits and starts
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Student Perceptions of Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication in Face-to-Face Cou... - 0 views

  • Finally, CMC can provide a more comfortable environment and discussion opportunities for students who do not perform well in spontaneous face-to-face discussion because they are shy or because their native language is not English (Berge & Collins, 1993; Harasim, 1990; Leasure, Davis, & Thievon, 2000).
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Autistic Teen Uses Tech to Break Silence: "I Escaped My Prison" | NBC Southern California - 0 views

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    This is an amazing story. I hope all autistic children get the chance to break their silence.
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Does Sense of Community Matter? - 1 views

  • The findings suggested that students felt a sense of belonging to a learning community when they took online courses in this program.
  • The existing technology may still be a barrier without the supportive structure to enhance bonding within the online community
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Critical Inquiry in a Text-Based Environment: Computer Conferencing in Higher Education - 0 views

  • This research would suggest that computer conferencing has considerable potential to create a community of inquiry for educational purposes.
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http://www.sunyresearch.net/hplo/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LP-Additional-Research-draf... - 4 views

  • The authors posit that learning occurs through the interaction of students and their instructor and is manifest as three integrated elements that contribute to a successful online learning community
  • social presence (SP), teaching presence (TP), and cognitive presence (CP)
  • he model also includes cognitive presence, a multivariate measure of critical and creative thinking that results from the cyclical process of practical inquiry within such a community of learners.
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A Meta-Analysis of Three Types of Interaction Treatments in Distance Education - 0 views

  • student–student (SS), student–teacher (ST), or student–content (SC) interactions
  • A strong association is found between strength and achievement for asynchronous DE courses compared to courses containing mediated synchronous or face-to-face interaction
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The Confluence Between Arts and Medical Science - Music and movement therapy for childr... - 0 views

  • dical Science — Music and movement therapy for children with Cerebral Palsy
  • The Confluence Between Arts and Me
  • : 5 diplagic, 1 tripelagic, and 3 others with full ambulatory function and both arms functional. The patients were all mobile but not stable. Their age ranged between 7 and 12 years, with a receptive language level of 4.00 to 4.11 years.
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  • Gamelan music was used as part of the intervention. Almost all of the patients had not seen or experienced the hearing or playing of gamelan. This type of musical ensemble consists of large- and medium-sized circular knobbed gongs and bronze plates of varying pitches, all arranged in pentatonic scale sequence and suspended over a trough-like resonator
  • Improvement in Posture
  • Improvement in Attention Span and Concentration
  • Improvements in Gross Motor Function
  • Confidence Level
  • Cognitive Function
  • Gross Motor Function
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