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29 septembre 2016
American Cloaca: A Memoir: 4b
By Oronte. Read more...
29 septembre 2016
Scaling Up High-Impact Instruction
By Colleen Flaherty. New series of grants seek to help institutions embed Reacting to the Past and other high-impact teaching practices in the undergraduate curriculum. Read more...
29 septembre 2016
When Conference Speakers Offend
By Colleen Flaherty. After controversial remarks about reproduction at one conference and gay people at another, scholarly groups consider whether they have an obligation to apologize for what was said or whether doing so constitutes censorship. Read more...
29 septembre 2016
Localiser le religieux dans les sciences sociales
« Localiser le religieux dans les sciences sociales » Vendredi 7 octobre – Séminaire CHERPA /GSRL
1ère session du séminaire « Localiser le religieux dans les sciences sociales »
vendredi 7 octobre 2016 / de 9h30 à 17h30 / Salle 003
Espace Philippe SEGUIN
Référents scientifiques : Ph. ALDRIN, F. FREGOSI, Ph. PORTIER
Coordination scientifique : H.BENAISSA, M.O DEL GROSSO, D. GUIDI, G.SILHOL
29 septembre 2016
e-Tutor: A Multilingual Open Educational Resource for Faculty Development to Teach Online
The situation in Ukraine poses severe problems to the higher education system and to students in Eastern Ukraine. Many students and academicians had been compelled to leave their university buildings and move westwards. Hence, they are forced to substitute face-to-face teaching with distance learning, often on a large scale, but within a short span of time and with limited resources. While technical/technological infrastructure often exists, know-how about conducting online teaching and respective faculty development is often found to be lacking. More...
29 septembre 2016
From Presences to Linked Influences Within Communities of Inquiry
Much research has identified and confirmed the core elements of the well-known Community of Inquiry Framework (CoIF): Social, Cognitive and Teaching Presence (Garrison, 2011). The overlap of these Presences, their definitions and roles, and their subsequent impact on the educational experience, has received less attention. This article is prompted by the acceptance of that omission (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2010). It proposes enrichment to the Framework, by entitling the overlapping spaces uniting pairs of Presences as “Influences.” More...
29 septembre 2016
The Effects of a Pedagogical Agent’s Smiling Expression on the Learner’s Emotions and Motivation
The present study aimed to test the hypothesis that a smiling expression on the face of a talking pedagogical agent could positively affect a learner’s emotions, motivation, and learning outcomes in a virtual learning environment. Contrary to the hypothesis, results from Experiment 1 demonstrated that the pedagogical agent’s smile induced negative emotional and motivational responses in learners. Experiment 2 showed that the social meaning of a pedagogical agent’s smile might be perceived by learners as polite or fake. More...
29 septembre 2016
Exploring Communication and Course Format: Conversation Frequency and Duration, Student Motives and ...
This study explored how course instructional format (i.e., online, face-to-face, or hybrid) is related to the frequency and duration of out-of-class communication (OCC) between college instructors and students, to student motives for communicating with teachers, and to perceived teacher approachability for conversation outside of class. Though differences in frequency of and student motives for engaging in OCC were not significant, students enrolled in face-to-face courses reported significantly more ongoing/durative OCC with their instructors compared to students enrolled other course types (i.e., online or hybrid). More...
29 septembre 2016
Development of Open Textbooks Learning Analytics System
Textbook costs have skyrocketed in recent years, putting them beyond the reach of many students, but there are options which can mitigate this problem. Open textbooks, an open educational resource, have proven capable of making textbooks affordable to students. There have been few educational development as promising as the development of open textbooks to lower costs for students. More...
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