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Showing 1 to 20 of 250 for “"online courses"”.
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Academic Dishonesty in Traditional and Online Courses as Self-Reported by Students in Online Courses.
… in academic dishonesty in traditional and online college courses and the perceptions of online students toward academic dishonesty. Students enrolled in the Tennessee Regents Online Degree Program (RODP) who had taken both online and traditional courses were invited to participate in the …
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Collaboration in online courses in Slovakia
Comprehensive analyses of online and collaborative learning methods in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe are nearly non-existent. Yet, these nations typically have authoritarian teaching and learning traditions which present unique and significant challenges to the …
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Stopout prediction in massive open online courses
… sounds like an unlikely scenario, Massive Open Online Courses, MOOCs, have practically made that a reality by offering previously exclusive classes to mass audiences. However, as the barriers to entry for MOOCs are very low, student dropout, referred to as student `stopout' [2], is very high. We …
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Developing a Sense of Community in Online Courses
Enrollment in online courses has grown drastically over the past decade. Institutions of higher education are offering online courses and more students are becoming enrolled in online courses and programs. One aspect of the growth in online courses involves the relationship between student feelings …
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Exploring communication patterns in Massive Open Online Courses
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) use free or low-fee short courses to increase access to education both in the United States and internationally. Since the University of Illinois partnered with the MOOC provider Coursera in 2013 it has seen over 1.55 million enrollments in over 125 open courses, …
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Modeling problem solving in Massive Open Online Courses
.Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) have presented a completely new style of learning and teaching that also brings us a massive amount of student behavioral data. Some of this data is exclusive to the MOOC environment. It opens up many possibilities for educators to study a question they have …
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PRESENTING IN THE PRESENT: PUBLIC SPEAKING IN ONLINE COURSES
… century, colleges have increasingly leveraged online-based courses as a means of instruction, and although public speaking ability is among employers’ most in-demand skills for college graduates, there exists a scarcity of research measuring students’ public speaking skill development in online …
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Identifying and characterizing subpopulations in massive open online courses
… and diverse student populations in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) present an unprecedented opportunity to understand student behavior and learn about learning. A tremendous amount of information on students is collected by logging their behaviors. However, despite this wealth of data, little …
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Automating vocabulary tests and enriching online courses for language learners
The past decade has seen a massive growth in online academic courses, most of which are offered in the English language. However, although more people speak English as their second language than as their first, online course providers do not offer language assistance. Providing online learners with …
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Teachers' pedagogical practices, shift, and professional growth in online courses
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Online courses at a community college: a study of student characteristics
… million students in higher education were taking online classes in fall 2009. The annual growth rate (21%) in online enrollments from 2002 to 2009 far exceeded the enrollment growth (2%) in higher education for that seven year period (Allen & Seaman, 2010). Continued rapid growth in online …
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Factors Influencing Completion and Non -Completion in Community College Online Courses
… and improving the quality of instruction in online courses. Although this study was conducted at one institution, the implications for practice and policy may be helpful to other community colleges that are searching for strategies to improve retention rates in their online programs.
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Methods for observational studies using data from massive open online courses
Measuring the effect of a course component in online classes present an opportunity to use propensity score methods. Propensity score methods aim to balance the effect of self-selecting biases and other confounding variables that arise in observational studies like this, as each student decides …
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Community College Students Taking Online Courses: The Student Point-of-View
… college students' experiences taking on-line courses. The study addresses the research question, "How do community college students construct their on-line experiences?" In order to answer this question, the following foci were examined: What are the characteristics of students taking online …
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Constructing Educational Criticism Of Online Courses: A Model For Implementation By Practitioners
Online courses are complex, human-driven contexts for formal learning. Little has been said about the environment emerging from the interaction of instructor(s), learners, and other resources in such courses. Theories that focus on instructional settings and methods that are designed to accommodate …
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A Mutli-institutional Investigation into Cheating on Tests in College Online Courses
… cheating to date has been related to traditional courses and has often included a wide range of cheating types. With the explosion of online learning in the last 15 years, there has been very little research related to cheating on tests in online classes. Therefore, the purpose of this study was …
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Classification with noisy labels : "Multiple Account" cheating detection in Open Online Courses
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to enhance socioeconomic mobility through education. Yet, the viability of this outcome largely depends on the reputation of MOOC certificates as a credible academic credential. I describe a cheating strategy that threatens this reputation and …
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Factors that Shape Administrators' Decisions for Implementing Online Courses in Small Private Universities
The recent Sloan report found that online course enrollments are increasing 13% annually. This study investigated how the vision and philosophy of the academic leadership in small private universities influence the development of online learning. Investigations regarding online learning leadership …
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The impact of motivational messages on student performance in community college online courses
… to student had an impact on performance in an online course, with student performance measured by course completion and course performance as evidenced by final course grade. The sample for the study was students enrolled in 12 online classes offered by one community college during the spring …
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