Teacher authority has long been recognized as one of the critical factors that contribute to the formation of effective learning circumstances (Haywood-Metz, 2006). A survey was developed based on Dornbusch and Scott’s (1975) theoretical framework of distinction between formal authority and informal authority, named The Attitude towards College Instructor Authority (ACIA). By using this survey ...

Knowledge is a product out of interaction. In online community learning, learners are encouraged to ask questions and discuss answers with each others. The value of participation and sharing during learning is emphasized. However, interactions between learners and between learner and instructor address a problem the instructor cannot be online all the time and it is not possible for the instruc...

The rapid growth of online education has led to expanded opportunities for students while introducing instructors to new teaching challenges inherent to virtual learning environments. The practical responsibilities, once confined to the traditional classroom, such as handling student records, class size, teaching assistants, and instructional material now require a newmind set as well as suffic...

Platform independent Java application to support interaction between an instructor, teaching assistants and students in a traditional on-campus course is developed. The TSI (teacher-student interaction) application includes a specialized Web server, an ordinary Web server, a mailer and a simple database. The HTTP protocol is used for all communications. Both teachers and students employ Web bro...

Case studies can be an e ective part of an ethics and computing course. However, it is often time-consuming for the instructor to build a list of good case studies. This is especially true if the instructor wants to use real-life incidents for the cases. Even for the instructor who prefers to use "anonymized" or "synthetic" case studies, a compilation of real incidents provides a good starting ...

At its June,1996 meeting, Senate approved a new Instructor and Course Evaluation form (see Exhibit 1) for university-wide use beginning in the 1996-97 academic year. The distinctive features of the new teaching evaluation form include numerical ratings of a broad range of teacher and course characteristics, written comments from students on instructor and course, assessment of student character...

This paper provides a review of literature that relates research on Carl Rogers' person-centered learning theory to Web-based learning. Based on the review of the literature, a set of criteria is described that can be used to determine how closely a Web-based course matches the different components of Rogers' person-centered learning theory. Using the criteria based on Rogers' learning theory a...

Tliis study examined the influence of teaching assistant attire in the university classroom. Significant relationships were found between instructor attire and student cognitive learning, affective leaming, and ratings of instruction. Analysis of variance indicated significant differences in these variables by levels of teaching assistant dress. Significant negative relationship was found betwe...

By a somewhat democratic process, it was established that the graded work for the course will be two-fold: scribe notes (such that the participants and the instructor emerge with a relatively complete set of lecture notes) and homework exercises (probably three sets of challenging-butnot-life-threatening problems, such that everybody gets some practice solving problems and the instructor may om...

The CL system uses an algorithm that, given a task-based corpus situated in a virtual world, which contains human instructor’s speech acts and the user’s responses as physical actions, generates a virtual instructor that helps a user achieve a given task in the virtual world. In this report, we explain how this algorithm can be used for generating a virtual instructor for a game-like, task-orie...