The critical, relational practice of instructional design in higher education: an emerging model of change agency [PDF]
This paper offers an emerging interpretive framework for understanding the active role instructional designers play in the transformation of learning systems in higher education.
Campbell, Katy +2 more
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The Effect of Using the Community of Inquiry Model on the Quality of Distance Learning of the Airways Management among Anesthesia Nursing Students [PDF]
Introduction: Distance education as a training method is used today to train nurses around the world. This study aimed to determine the impact of using the community of inquiry modelon the quality of distance learning of airway management among ...
ALI KHALAFI +3 more
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The discourse on blended learning must not take away focus on learning by concentrating explicitly on technologies. When learner-centred discussions are incorporated, these may be confined to constructivist pedagogies, as evident through the well ...
Sheriya Sareen, Sayantan Mandal
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Scientific literacy through co-inquiry based on non-formal and informal learning [PDF]
This paper presents a collaborative research on scientific citizenship developed by the Open University UK (OU) through the weSPOT project for inquiry based learning and the Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB) responsible for coordinating the ...
Okada, Alexandra +2 more
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CIDER Session ~ Community of Inquiry Framework: Validation and instrument development
Re-broadcast of a presentation on original research entitled: Community of Inquiry Framework: Validation and instrument development.
Ben Arbaugh +7 more
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A framework for judging the ‘quality’ of first-person-action-research projects on the work based & integrative studies (WBIS) programme: Extracts from a practitioner research Masters dissertation [PDF]
How do we judge the quality of ‘reflective research’ projects? This paper presents extracts from a practitioner research project undertaken in 2007 which develops a framework to answer this question.
Wall, Tony
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Transferring a Question-Based Dialog Framework to a Distributed Architecture [PDF]
Inquiry skills are an essential tool for assessing and integrating knowledge. In facilitated face-to-face settings, inquiry skills were improved successfully by using a “question-based dialog” and its resulting visual representation. However, groups that
de Lange, Peter +3 more
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Supporting a Culture of Evidence-Based Practice and Continuous Program Improvement: A Staged Approach to Implementing and Studying International Early Childhood Development Programs [PDF]
This concept paper proposes a four-stage approach to in-country/region ECD program development, selection, and inquiry designed to build the evidence base required to guide program and policy decisions. The foundation of the approach is a strengths-based
Christine Ross +2 more
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The triangle of effective education implemented for Theology
Higher education in general, and more specifically in the South African environment, is under pressure to transform. Although learning is often seen as the main focal point, the education process consists of three equally important pillars that form the ...
Erna Oliver
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Disrupting the new orthodoxy: Emergency intervention and Indigenous social policy [PDF]
This article develops a critical analysis of the ideological framework that informed the Australian Federal government’s 2007 intervention into Northern Territory Indigenous communities (ostensibly to address the problem of child sexual abuse). Continued
Hil, Richard, Thompson, Lester
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