This study examined students’ self-regulated learning processes and satisfaction within an authentic, inquirybased learning module in a graduate-level online course. In this design-based case study, a WebQuest-based, authentic learning module was developed to support self-regulated, collaborative discussions, and implemented with 22 graduate students at a large southeastern university in US. On...

The mission of RISER (Research Institute on Secondary Education Reform for Youth with Disabilities) is to expand the current knowledge base related to practices and policies in secondary schools that enhance learning, achievement, and postschool outcomes for all students. Transition practices related to career development are an important aspect of secondary education reform (Hanley-Maxwell, Ph...

To address present and future leadership needs, a model of authentic leader and follower development is proposed and examined with respect to its relationship to veritable, sustainable follower performance. The developmental processes of leader and follower self-awareness and self-regulation are emphasized. The influence of the leader’s and followers’ personal histories and trigger events are c...

We present two studies on authentic vocal affect expressions. In Study 1, the speech of social phobics was recorded in an anxiogenic public speaking task both before and after treatment. In Study 2, the speech material was collected from real life human-computer interactions. All speech samples were acoustically analyzed and subjected to listening tests. Results from Study 1 showed that a decre...

Influenced by constructivist educational theory and advances in technology, there is increasing interest in authentic activities as a basis for learning in both face-to-face and web-based courses. Whereas traditionally, real-world activities have primarily served as vehicles for practice of skills or processes that are taught using traditional instructional methods, a more radical approach is t...

The protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis was incubated in a growth medium containing added unlabeled cholesterol or 26-14C-cholesterol with the following consequences: (a) the biosynthesis of tetrahymanol, a pentacyclic triterpenoid alcohol produced in the organism by squalene cyclization, was inhibited, and (b) the cholesterol was accumulated by the cells and converted metabolically to a mixture o...

With many learners failing to engage with didactic and outmoded instructional methods, and unwilling to use technology that simply replicates the one-way transfer of information from teacher to student, authentic learning designs have the potential to improve student engagement and educational outcomes. This paper argues that online technologies afford the design and creation of truly innovativ...

In teaching and learning of English as a foreign language, the Internet serves as a source of authentic listening material, enabling learners to practice English in real contexts. An adaptive computer-assisted language learning and teaching system can pick up news clips as authentic materials from the Internet according to learner listening proficiency if it is equipped with a listenability mea...

Coffee is one of mankind's most popular beverages obtained from green coffee beans by roasting. Much effort has been expended towards the chemical characterisation of the components of the roasted coffee bean, frequently termed melanoidines, which are dominated byproducts formed from its most relevant secondary metabolites - chlorogenic acids. However, impeded by a lack of suitable authentic re...