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Union and Union Threat Premiums Among Graduate Student Stipends [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
To inform the ongoing debate over graduate student unionization, the author tests for the presence of union-related premiums among teaching and research assistant stipends using data from The Chronicle of Higher Education’s survey of departments in six ...
Liu, Albert Y
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Verifying Causal Relationships Among the Presences of the Community of Inquiry Framework in the Chinese Context

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The purpose of this study was to verify a Chinese version of Community of Inquiry (CoI) instrument with learning presence and explore the causal relationships of the factors in the instrument. This study first examined the reliability and validity of the
Zhiqiang Ma   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Creativity and Art Education: Gaps Between Theories and Practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Theories of creativity from different disciplines map onto teaching strategies within the fine art field. In particular, the outcomes of historical studies by psychologists and experimental studies within cognitive science have significant resonance with
Journeaux, Jill, Mottram, Judith
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ONLINE COMMUNITY OF INQUIRY REVIEW: SOCIAL, COGNITIVE, AND TEACHING PRESENCE ISSUES

open access: yesOnline Learning, 2019
This paper explores four issues that have emerged from the research on social, cognitive and teaching presence in an online community of inquiry. The early research in the area of online communities of inquiry has raised several issues with regard to the
D. Garrison
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Motivation for MOOC learning persistence: An expectancy–value theory perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Managing learning continuity is critical for successful MOOC learning. Thus, enabling learners to have learning persistence needs to be integrated into the MOOC learning design.
Yechan Lee, Hae-Deok Song, Hae-Deok Song
doaj   +1 more source

Instructor’s Use of Social Presence, Teaching Presence, and Attitudinal Dissonance: A Case Study of an Attitudinal Change MOOC

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This study examines a MOOC instructor’s use of social presence, teaching presence, and dissonance for attitudinal change in a MOOC on Human Trafficking, designed to promote attitudinal change.
Sunnie Lee Watson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Appropriateness” in foreign language acquisition and use: some theoretical, methodological and ethical considerations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In this contribution, I focus on the concept of “appropriateness” in the usage, the learning and the teaching of foreign languages. Using a participant-based emic perspective, I investigate multilinguals’ perceptions of appropriateness in their foreign ...
Barron   +12 more
core   +1 more source

The presence of multimedia in astronomy teaching [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1998
Sometimes I find my self in a society in the middle of The Global Village and sometimes in a society in a little state with a large number of computers not speaking the language I usually talk. When a prevailing part of the population are working in one area the society is named after that area, allthough a lot of other things can characterize the ...
openaire   +1 more source

An item response theory analysis of the Community of Inquiry Scale

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
The aim of this study is to examine validity and reliability of Community of Inquiry Scale commonly used in online learning by the means of Item Response Theory.
Mehmet Barış Horzum   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Educating Britain? Political Literacy and the Construction of National History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Despite the reflexive nature of historical enquiry and the degree of national interconnectness now theorized by historians in the United Kingdom, education debates over history teaching in Britain often yield a comforting defence of Britain's 'island ...
Barton   +55 more
core   +2 more sources

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