Results 1 to 10 of about 48,010 (260)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
MOOCs as facilitator: Online learning and women in STEM
2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 2017The scarcity of female students in computer science programs is one of the most troubling challenges facing the discipline today. Enrollment of women in computer science undergraduate courses has fallen by over 50% from its high point in the 1980s, and is believed to be due, in part, to unwelcoming classroom environments.
Minji Lee +4 more
openaire +1 more source
Facilitating human interaction in an online programming course
Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2014Human/human interaction is a critical component of learning in many domains including introductory computer programming. For on-campus courses, lectures and problem sessions provide opportunities for students to interact with the instructor(s) and their peers.
Joe Warren +3 more
openaire +1 more source
Facilitation of Online Teaching and Learning
2010Twenty First Century Education is undergoing change not only to keep in step with the emerging technological innovations, but also to address the needs and meet the high expectations of a technically sophisticated student body. Physical manifestations of these changes may be seen in new institutional building work.
openaire +1 more source
Facilitating Learning by Going Online
2013This chapter examines the impact of eLearning and Web 2.0 social media in a socially conservative environment in Indonesia that has nevertheless proven surprisingly adroit at change management. Web 2.0 social media has proven enormously popular in Indonesia but traditional Islamic schools (which are known in Java as pesantren but elsewhere in the ...
openaire +1 more source
Questioning skills facilitate online synchronous discussions
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2005AbstractThe results of this study show that effective questioning skills increase student intellectual moves that, in turn, facilitate the process of knowledge construction in online synchronous discussion (OSD). The open‐ended questions elicited multiple perspectives by promoting student participation, while OSD enabled them to share and debate ...
openaire +1 more source
Facilitating the Self-Formation of Collaborative Groups, Online
Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06), 2006Many factors come into play in the creation of collaborative groups. These include the assessment of skills and abilities of potential members as well as social cues. In online courses, when groups are to be formed over the network, participants know nothing of each other - not even what they look like.
openaire +1 more source
Student‐facilitators' roles in moderating online discussions
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008Abstract Intellectual, social, managerial and technical are four commonly reported categories of facilitation in online discussions. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether these four broad categories of facilitation were equally applied in online discussions and which specific skills were perceived to be more important ...
openaire +1 more source
Online Group Facilitation Skills
2006Traditional face-to-face (F2F) group facilitation is a well-evolved practice. Roger Schwarz defined it as “a process in which a person who is acceptable to all members of the group, substantively neutral and has no decision-making authority intervenes to help a group improve the way it identifies and solves problems and makes decisions, in order to ...
openaire +1 more source