Distance education is defined, the various approaches for effective research are summarized, and the results of major research reviews of the field are explained in this article. Additionally, two major areas of research are included— research on barriers to the adoption of distance education and research summaries that explain and support best practices in the field. This paper concludes with ...

Should we give learners a lot of practice with a few problems, or a little practice with a variety of problems? The best practice set depends on the way people are learning. We describe two models people employ when learning arithmetic problems. We show that features of the task environment influence model use. When problems are presented in a purely symbolic format, people learn an item-specif...

Features from the past in present cities have been identified as valuable and as potential assets for future urban development. Transferring knowledge about the history and heritage of the urban landscape is considered to be a challenging matter. This paper discusses how the process of knowledge transfer between past and future oriented disciplines can be optimized by combining mobile geospatia...

This paper presents some of the results of the study of seven cases of innovative pedagogical practices using ICT. The study was performed in the framework of the application of SITES M2 in Chile. The results are divided in two sections, the first presents a summary of each case, highlighting its innovative characteristics that serve as models of ‘good practice’ for Chilean teachers. The second...

Thesis projects are a challenging task for students as well as their supervisors. In most cases, students have not managed such large projects before. Many supervisors are good researchers, but have not received training in pedagogy and project management. This means that students as well as supervisors often lack best practices in managing thesis projects. This paper fills this gap by providin...

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