L'Université de Lorraine propose une Licence 1 en théologie catholique accessible avec le Baccalauréat. Cette licence est une étape permettant d’évoluer vers une poursuite d’études, les compétences acquises peuvent être des atouts pour certains emplois de niveau techniciens supérieurs ou cadres moyens. L'originalité, l'interdisciplinarité et l'exigence de la formation en théologie sont des plus qui peuvent être valorisés dans un CV. Voir l'article...

L'université Paris Ouest Nanterre propose un Diplôme Universitaire « Savoir convaincre : argumentation, expression, éloquence ». C'est une formation constituée de 4 cours répartis sur l'année universitaire (2 au premier semestre et 2 au second semestre), qui vise à développer les qualités d'argumentation et d'expression écrite. Voir l'article...

Online discussion is a commonly used means to promote student understanding of a topic and to facilitate social interaction among students or between students and instructor; however, its effects on student learning in online learning environments have rarely been investigated. More...

The Peer Review (PR) is a very popular technique to support socio-constructivist and connectivist learning processes, online or face-to-face, at all educational levels, in both formal and informal contexts. More...

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Using in-class questions is an efficient instructional strategy to keep abreast of the state of student learning in a class. Some studies have found that discussing in-class questions in synchronous learning is helpful. More...

The objective of the paper is to provide a framework for understanding the pedagogical opportunities of openness in education. The paper will argue that openness in education should not only be viewed as opening existing resources and courses to a broader audience. Openness is also a matter of providing insight and enable communication and collaboration across traditional barriers – such as distance and accessibility. More...

While the use of Twitter for communication and assessment activities in online courses is not new, it has not been without its challenges. This is increasingly true of high enrolment courses. The use of a Twitter Evaluation application which leverages a Learning Management System’s (LMS’s) application programming interface (API) provides a solution which reduces the administrative overhead associated with tracking students’ Tweets and allows the grader to focus on the assessment of the Tweets’ quality. More...

Online and distance learning is becoming increasingly common. Some would say it has quickly become the preferred or 'new normal' mode of study throughout the world. However, surprisingly little is known about what actually happens to first year distance students once they have enrolled in tertiary institutions; what motivates them and how they actually experience the transition to formal study by distance. More...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the alteration of influencing factors of continued intention to use e-learning for different degrees of participation of adults. Participants included 670 learners from an adult professional development website. Data was collected based on questionnaires and analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). More...