Professional development (PD) workshops designed to help faculty move from teacherto learner-centered science courses for undergraduates are typically evaluated with self-reported surveys that address faculty’s satisfaction with a workshop, what they learned, and what they applied in the classroom. Professional development outcomes are seldom evaluated through analysis of observed teaching prac...

This descriptive study explores characteristics that can affect learner participation in hybrid classrooms and also learning outcomes. Data were collected from an online survey of 200 students (with 107 responses) from the online degree programs of two American universities. These learners are diverse in age and ethnic backgrounds. Major findings include: 1) Learner perception of being equal or...

In this study, we investigated the impact of gender on learner participation, motivation and achievement in a game-based mobile learning environment. Our sample comprised 123 fourth-graders (59 girls and 64 boys) participating in a six-hour project of the science observation on virtual ecological pond. Based on classroom observations and questionnaires addressing issues of motivation, we collec...

This study was conducted to analyze the characteristics of online learners enrolled in three different semesters of the same course. A survey was administered to 51 undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory Educational Psychology distance education course. In addition to the survey, the students’ level of participation and grades within the course were examined. While some of the findi...

This research studies the ration of social participation among the youth aged 18-29 in Bam after the disastrous earthquake in December 2003 and its effective factors. In this paper, the youth more than 400 people were asked directly with an Interview and a Questionnaire in Bam (South of Iran). Theories like modernization school adopted by learner, Ingelhart, Hantington, Lipst, Almound, Powel, R...

The present research was conducted with the aim to sociologically explicate the economic participation among young people in Khalkhal. What is highly important in this research is the necessity to give priority to economic participation. The theories of ideologists such as Rostow, Learner, Marxist and Tok were employed to conduct this research. Meanwhile, survey method and questionnaires were u...

The present research was conducted with the aim to sociologically explicate the economic participation among young people in Khalkhal. What is highly important in this research is the necessity to give priority to economic participation. The theories of ideologists such as Rostow, Learner, Marxist and Tok were employed to conduct this research. Meanwhile, survey method and questionnaires were u...

Being main teaching media and major source of comprehensive target language input, teacher talk plays an important role in learners' second-language acquisition. Under the trend of "learner-centered" teaching mode, some researchers think that the best teacher talk means less. But the author holds that, in Chinese second language classroom, it is not advisable to lay too much stress on the forma...

To be effective change agents, continuing education (CE) professionals must be able to develop strategies that assess and affect learners’ motivation to learn about specific topics and engage in specific learning activities. This article suggests a framework for assessing and influencing learner motivation. Need reduction theory based on discrepancy analysis provides one way to explain and pred...