Online courses appear to be the future if colleges and universities choose to increase enrollments with students who need more flexibility in scheduling. The challenge has been to create a course that is rigorous with the limitations to physical presence of the instructor and the parameters inherent in technological delivery. This article relates the planning and execution of such a graduate ps...

WEAR is an authoring tool for building Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) over the Web. The innovative feature of WEAR is its instructor modelling capabilities. In particular, WEAR maintains instructor models for the human instructors who author the ITSs in order to adapt the interaction with each instructor and provide individualised support to them throughout the ITS’s lifecycle. The instruc...

LEARNING WHILE USING AN INSTRUCTIONAL SIMULATION Tayyaba Batool Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Dr. Ginger S. Watson Learner control is thought to be valuable by some scholars who believe that it allows learners to adapt instructions to their needs while reducing cognitive load (Mayer & Moreno, 2003). Although learner control offers some advantages to the learner, the importance of an i...

Increased pressure relating to employment schedules, finances, and family responsibilities, as well as the high-cost of post-secondary education and the limited availability of scholarships, has created an increased need for distance education. Distance learning research has defined certain problematic areas which must be addressed in an effort to enhance the distance learning experience. This ...

a bstract background:  one of the key strategies in students’ learning is the in fl uence of models on them. understanding the factors affecting the implementation of role-modeling process in education will help to make greater use of this training strategy. this study aimed to understand the experiences of role model instructors and nursing students about the facilitator factors in the role-mo...

Reductions in perceptual fluency have been shown to negatively impact attitudes towards learning material, but not learning itself. The current study extends this work to spoken presentations and examines whether the presence of a foreign accent negatively affects learners’ experience in an online learning environment. Results indicate that the presence of an instructor accent, consistent with ...