Search Results

Nontraditional students are rapidly becoming the majority group on campuses across America. These students are often hard pressed for time and in order to provide them with equal learning opportunities many universities and colleges are currently...

The emerging crop of college students, most of whom are referred to as 'Millennials' or the Internet generation, and how they use technology has implications for the future of higher education. This study examines students' technology use, skills,...

In addition to having the necessary content knowledge required to teach students, today's teacher must also be sufficiently equipped to guide and support effective student learning. One factor that has been identified as enabling effective student...

Although technology has become so pervasive on most college campuses today, it has not been heavily infused in the activities of teaching and learning (Grabe & Grabe, 2008). Additionally, growing investments in educational technology (Cuban, 2001;...

The use of electronic portfolios has gained momentum in today’s education of teachers. While many teacher education programs have adopted electronic portfolios in order to meet accreditation requirements, others hope that the use of electronic...

Past research has shown that peer support helps improve several areas of faculty activities such as research, teaching, and technology competencies. Using a mixed method design, this research study investigated resources available to faculty as they ...

This study investigated the value-added effect of using clickers in classroom instruction. Participants comprised of students enrolled in two introductory graduate level research methods and statistics courses taught by the same instructor. Both...

As faculty turn to online professional development workshops, research evaluating the effectiveness of such a strategy has become necessary. Using a mixed methods approach, this study aimed at exploring faculty perceptions regarding online workshops ...

This study utilized a mixed method approach to investigate students’ views and experiences with the use of Blackboard in a web-enhanced graduate level research methods course. Participants of the study included 40 graduate students enrolled in...

Many instructors are using literary texts along with language structure books in English as a Secondary Language (ESL) classrooms with the aim of increasing students’ language skills. Since literature is often written to portray a particular...

New advances in technology have enabled teaching and learning in a variety of environments in higher education. One approach that continues to evolve and expand is the blended delivery option. Blended instruction has mainly involved the instructor...

This study utilized a mixed method approach to investigate students’ views and experiences with the use of Blackboard in a web-enhanced graduate level research methods course. Participants of the study included 40 graduate students enrolled in...

As faculty turn to online professional development workshops, research evaluating the effectiveness of such a strategy has become necessary. Using a mixed methods approach, this study aimed at exploring faculty perceptions regarding online workshops ...

Although many teacher training programs and school districts offer courses and workshops on technology integration in instruction, research shows that teachers still face major challenges especially as it relates to selecting and using...

Blended instruction has mainly involved the instructor making decisions regarding the combination of online and in-class learning activities required for the course. Recently, an innovative blended model, hyflex learning, has begun to emerge....

In this study, student performance and perceptions of the quality of instruction in three separate sessions of a research methods course delivered using a traditional face-to-face format, an asynchronous online format, and a synchronous online...