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1 mars 2016

Re-organizing Universities for the Information Age

University education is still generally conducted within pre-Industrial Age organizational structures. As a result of their inability to evolve the predominant cohort-based classroom structure to more cost-effectively meet the aspirations of burgeoning worldwide populations for higher education, universities may see substantial organizational changes imposed on them over the next decades by external forces. More...

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1 mars 2016

Identifying Effective Pedagogical Approaches for Online Workplace Training: A case study of the South African wood products

This study investigated appropriate pedagogical techniques for workplace e-learning programs in the South African wood products (furniture) manufacturing sector. The study found that learners responded favourably to constructivist teaching approaches, such as asynchronous discussions, open-ended task-based activities, and assignments incorporating authentic, real-world examples. More...

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1 mars 2016

The Emergence of Open-Source Software in North America

Unlike conventional models of software development, the open source model is based on the collaborative efforts of users who are also co-developers of the software. Interest in open source software has grown exponentially in recent years. More...

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1 mars 2016

OOPS, Turning MIT Opencourseware into Chinese: An analysis of a community of practice of global translators

An all-volunteer organization called the Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS), headquartered in Taiwan, was initially designed to translate open source materials from MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site into Chinese. More...

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1 mars 2016

Access to Communication for Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and ESL Students in Blended Learning Courses

In an effort to better understand student perceptions of communication in blended (online and traditional) learning courses, a 22 item questionnaire was developed and sent to all students registered for these courses at a large technology-focused college during three quarters of instruction. More...

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1 mars 2016

Going the Distance: Towards a new professionalism for full-time distance education faculty at the University of the Philippines

Several constraints influence the formation of a professional identity by full-time distance education faculty at the University of the Philippines. One of these is the marginalisation of distance education (DE) in the academy as a consequence of DE’s identification with low status disciplines, as well as with developments in higher education that are undermining traditional academic identities. More...

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1 mars 2016

Persistence in University Continuing Education Online Classes

This study presents persistence and attrition data from two years of data collection. Over the eight quarters studied, the persistence rate in online courses was 79 percent. The persistence rate for similar onground courses was 84 percent. More...

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1 mars 2016

Cross-Cultural Delivery of e-Learning Programmes: Perspectives from Hong Kong

The growing popularity of e-learning may pose one of the greatest challenges currently facing traditional educational institutions. The questions often asked are how, rather than whether, to embrace this new form of instructional delivery and how to create an appropriate learning environment for the learners. Educational institutions in Hong Kong have the option of adopting programmes or learning materials developed in other parts of the world for local learners, or not. More...

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1 mars 2016

Incorporating Screencasts In Online Teaching

Despite success in teaching the class ‘Organization of Information in a School Library Media Center’ (EDCI 545) online, one component continued to be a problem for students, the Dewey Decimal Classification System. More...

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1 mars 2016

IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) - Vol 8, No 3 (2007)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Sabbaticals

Heather Kanuka

Re-organizing Universities for the Information Age

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Identifying Effective Pedagogical Approaches for Online Workplace Training: A case study of the South African wood products

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The Emergence of Open-Source Software in North America

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OOPS, Turning MIT Opencourseware into Chinese: An analysis of a community of practice of global translators

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Access to Communication for Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and ESL Students in Blended Learning Courses

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Going the Distance: Towards a new professionalism for full-time distance education faculty at the University of the Philippines

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Persistence in University Continuing Education Online Classes

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Cross-Cultural Delivery of e-Learning Programmes: Perspectives from Hong Kong

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Incorporating Screencasts In Online Teaching

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IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) - Vol 8, No 3 (2007)

Editorial

Research Articles

Research Notes

Book Notes

CIDER Notes

Full Issue

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