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Web-Supported Communities for Teacher Professional Development: Five Cautions
Hedieh Najafi; Anthony Clarke
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 8, No. 3 (September 2008) pp. 244–263
This interpretive case study explores an attempt to add an online component-the On-line Literacy Project-to a successful face-to-face professional development community. Participants were six members of the Literacy Project, which was carried out in ...
Topics: Virtual Environments, Information Communication Technologies, Networking Technologies, Mentoring, Communication, Collaboration, Computers, Community, Interaction, Internet, Professional Development, Educational Technology
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Identifying Enabling Conditions for Sustainable Online Teacher Professional Development Communities
Hedieh Najafi; Anthony Clarke
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2145–2148
This paper illustrates findings of an interpretive case-study that explored the development of e-VSB Literacy, a web-supported professional community, as the online component of Vancouver School Board Early Literacy Project (VSB Literacy Project), a ...
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Examining the Effect of a Online Professional Development initiative Iranian Teachers Professional Knowledge
Mitra Fathollahpour; Hedieh Najafi
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2585–2588
To improve Farsi speaking teachers' collective professional knowledge and enable them to use their expertise to compensate for shortage of income, an online community was initiated in 2004 by a group of Iranian teachers. This solution removes the...
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MOOC integration into secondary school courses
Hedieh Najafi; Rosemary Evans; Christopher Federico
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 15, No. 5 (Oct 06, 2014)
We investigated how high school students taking a university preparatory economics course would engage with the learning and assessment components of a Behavioural Economics MOOC that was integrated into their school-based course. Students were...
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A comparison of learner intent and behaviour in live and archived MOOCs
Jennifer Campbell; Alison Gibbs; Hedieh Najafi; Cody Severinski
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 15, No. 5 (Oct 06, 2014)
The advent of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has created opportunities for learning that are clearly in high demand, but the direction in which MOOCs should evolve to best meet the interests and needs of learners is less apparent. Motivated by...
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Exploring the Effect of Computer Mediated Communication Tools on Online Learners’ Participation and Learning: A Review of Research
Hedieh Najafi; Sarah Ellis; Kelly Cox; Denise Calvert
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 6341–6346
Constructivist approaches (Vygotsky, 1978) to online learning in higher education, emphasize the opportunities for collaborative work among online students. Although the number of online courses is dramatically increasing, the question of how...
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University of Toronto instructors’ experiences with developing MOOCs
Hedieh Najafi; Carol Rolheiser; Laurie Harrison; Stian Hklev
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 16, No. 3 (Jun 19, 2015)
We interviewed eight University of Toronto (U of T) instructors who have offered MOOCs on Coursera or EdX between 2012 and 2014 to understand their motivation for MOOC instruction, their experience developing and teaching MOOCs, and their...
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The City and You: An Exploration of Course Design, Learning Objectives, and Learner Outcomes and Assessments
Richard Florida; Hedieh Najafi; Karen King; Laurie Harrison; Will Heikoop
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 842–849
This paper explores how an on-demand course on the Coursera platform – The City and You – was designed for learners to explore topics on cities and urbanism through a critical approach lens. The course guided the learners to consider elements of...
Topics: MOOC’s, Open Teaching, and Open Educational Resources
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Help-Seekers and Help-Providers in MOOCs
Hedieh Najafi; Carol Rolheiser; Laurie Harrison; Will Heikoop
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 1476–1485
We conducted content analysis on 441 help-seeking posts in discussion forums of three Coursera MOOCs to examine MOOC learners’ help-seeking experience. We coded each help-seeking message submitted in 2017 that was related to an assessed component of ...
Topics: (2017) Research, (2017) Other
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Connecting Learner Motivation to Learner Progress and Completion in Massive Open Online Courses
Hedieh Najafi; Carol Rolheiser; Laurie Harrison; Will Heikoop
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 44, No. 2 (Sep 26, 2018)
We examined how massive open online courses (MOOC) learners’ motivational factors, self-efficacy, and task-value related to their course progress and achievement, as informed by learners’ initial course completion intention. In three individual...
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