Download or read book Female Students as Online Learners written by Noreen A. Powers and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Female Pioneers in Online Learning written by Susan Bainbridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Female Pioneers of Online Learning is the first volume to explore the lives and scholarship of women who have prominently advanced online learning. From its humble origins as distance education courses conducted via postal correspondence to today’s advances in the design and delivery of dynamic, technology-enhanced instruction, the ever-evolving field of online learning continues to be informed by the seminal research and institutional leadership of women. This landmark book details 30 preeminent female academics, including some of the first to create online courses, design learning management systems, research innovative topics such as discourse analysis or open resources, and speak explicitly about gender parity in the field. Offering comprehensive career profiles, original interviews, and research analyses, these chapters are illuminating on their own right while amounting to an essential combination of reference material and primary source.
Download or read book The Virtual Student written by Rena M. Palloff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-03-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Virtual Student is an essential resource for online educators working with students in higher education and training settings. The authors offer an overview of the key issues of student online learning and provide a practical guide to working with online students. The book covers a broad range of topics including learning styles, multicultural issues, evaluation, retention, and the challenging problems of plagiarism and cheating.
Download or read book The Third Shift written by Cheris Kramarae and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report explores why women pursue education; how they balance work, family and education; and what would make distance learning easier for them, and makes recommendations for improvements."--Page 85.
Download or read book Gender and Motivation written by Dan Bernstein and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does knowing a person?s gender give us a reliable sense of how aggressive, competitive, or emotional he or she is? In this volume leading scholars examine different aspects of this issue. Carol Tavris discusses the state of gender research and the reasons for the continuing popularity of essentialist theories of gender opposition. Nicki Crick and a team of researchers reassess stereotyped assumptions about gender and aggression, employing a more comprehensive definition of aggression as damaging relations rather than only bodies. Diane Gill looks at the relationship between gender and sports competition, explicating how the unique social context of sports affects gender perceptions and performances. Reed Larson and Joseph Pleck question the popular conception of men as less emotional than women, studying gender differences in ?felt? rather than ?expressed? emotions in daily life. Leonore Tiefer considers the ways in which gender roles in sexuality are socially rather than biologically constructed.
Download or read book The Rise of Women written by Thomas A. DiPrete and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While powerful gender inequalities remain in American society, women have made substantial gains and now largely surpass men in one crucial arena: education. Women now outperform men academically at all levels of school, and are more likely to obtain college degrees and enroll in graduate school. What accounts for this enormous reversal in the gender education gap? In The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools, Thomas DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann provide a detailed and accessible account of women’s educational advantage and suggest new strategies to improve schooling outcomes for both boys and girls. The Rise of Women opens with a masterful overview of the broader societal changes that accompanied the change in gender trends in higher education. The rise of egalitarian gender norms and a growing demand for college-educated workers allowed more women to enroll in colleges and universities nationwide. As this shift occurred, women quickly reversed the historical male advantage in education. By 2010, young women in their mid-twenties surpassed their male counterparts in earning college degrees by more than eight percentage points. The authors, however, reveal an important exception: While women have achieved parity in fields such as medicine and the law, they lag far behind men in engineering and physical science degrees. To explain these trends, The Rise of Women charts the performance of boys and girls over the course of their schooling. At each stage in the education process, they consider the gender-specific impact of factors such as families, schools, peers, race and class. Important differences emerge as early as kindergarten, where girls show higher levels of essential learning skills such as persistence and self-control. Girls also derive more intrinsic gratification from performing well on a day-to-day basis, a crucial advantage in the learning process. By contrast, boys must often navigate a conflict between their emerging masculine identity and a strong attachment to school. Families and peers play a crucial role at this juncture. The authors show the gender gap in educational attainment between children in the same families tends to be lower when the father is present and more highly educated. A strong academic climate, both among friends and at home, also tends to erode stereotypes that disconnect academic prowess and a healthy, masculine identity. Similarly, high schools with strong science curricula reduce the power of gender stereotypes concerning science and technology and encourage girls to major in scientific fields. As the value of a highly skilled workforce continues to grow, The Rise of Women argues that understanding the source and extent of the gender gap in higher education is essential to improving our schools and the economy. With its rigorous data and clear recommendations, this volume illuminates new ground for future education policies and research.
Download or read book Online Learning written by Julie C. Mello and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advances in Internet technology provide a variety of learning opportunities. One area in particular is learning at a distance with the assistance of the Internet. Even though online learning is becoming more common, there is a lack of literature concerning the challenges associated with learning online. The literature that addresses women's experiences of online learning is especially scarce. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the educational experiences of women students of online courses. The design of this study was qualitative. The four main findings of this study were: (a) women value accessibility of online learning; (b) women value ongoing communication; (c) women face challenges in online learning; (d) women have positive learning experiences online. This study has possible implications on the teaching practices and subsequent research studies regarding online education. Specifically, this study contributes to a more women-centered model of online education.
Download or read book Cooperative Collaborative Learning written by Robyn M. Gillies and published by Mdpi AG. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a diverse range of international scholars to highlight recent developments in research on collaborative learning. The emphasis is on research that has a strong evidence base for the work that is presented and includes empirical studies, best evidence synthesis of the relevant research, case studies, and theoretical reports. It also highlights how different technologies have been used to facilitate group interaction, dialogue, and learning. There is much to be gained by sharing and learning about what happens in different disciplines and contexts and how different collaborative pedagogies can be implemented when needed to promote understanding and learning. This book will have strong appeal to pre-service and experienced teachers and researchers who are interested in how different collaborative pedagogies can be embedded in course curricula to promote student engagement and learning.
Download or read book Cracking the code written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report aims to 'crack the code' by deciphering the factors that hinder and facilitate girls' and women's participation, achievement and continuation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and, in particular, what the education sector can do to promote girls' and women's interest in and engagement with STEM education and ultimately STEM careers.
Download or read book Learning Between Worlds written by Aimee M. DeNoyelles and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by social media and multi-user online video games, social virtual worlds such as Linden Lab's Second Life® (SL) emerge as a unique technological medium by offering the most 'real' virtual experience to date, through their capability of simulating worlds ('places'), and mediating user communication through avatars ('bodies'). When users are logged in, they are living in the hybrid space between the 'real' and virtual worlds. Virtual worlds hold a lot of promise to support and enhance student online learning communities, due to their ability to deliver on several trends: user-centered creation of customizable content, social expression, and construction of collective and collaborative global knowledge (Dieterle & Clarke, 2007). Although virtual worlds offer innovative opportunities not afforded in other technologies, they also offer complex and sometimes troubling unintended effects due to its capability of presenting a place much like the 'real world' in appearance and practice, but with a public, sometimes anonymous population. Considering the 'real life' experiences of users and emerging research about online privacy and safety, the issue of gender is difficult to dismiss. Virtual worlds have emerged from video games, virtual spaces that are traditionally male-dominated. In addition, the gendered experience of embodying avatars and inhabiting realistic virtual places is not fully addressed in the literature. It is important to better understand women's experiences in these virtual world learning communities. Due to the issues of women's conceptions of identity and interaction in the unique virtual world setting in an academic context, I am pursuing the following question: How do women students understand the psychological and contextual factors that influence their establishment of identity and interaction in a virtual world learning community? A qualitative feminist methodology was used to analyze the experiences of women in an undergraduate communications class as they explored SL. Voices of empowerment, connection and gender were expressed by the women as they constructed the meaning of their virtual world experiences. Findings suggest that women understood their hybrid identity and interaction in the virtual world learning community through several factors: personal conception of the virtual world, gendered identity, 'real world' context, and virtual world context. Individual factors of gaming experience and technical competence mediated this expression. Insights from these findings generate implications for future instructional design and research directions.
Download or read book Increasing Student Engagement and Retention in E Learning Environments written by Charles Wankel and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Web 2.0 and blended learning technologies are reshaping and reframing the practice of teaching and learning in higher education. This volume critically examines new research on how e-learning technologies are being used in higher education to increase learner engagement and retention.
Download or read book Comparative Blended Learning Practices and Environments written by Ng, Eugenia M. W. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Blended Learning Practices and Environments offers in-depth analysis of new technologies in blended learning that promote creativity, critical thinking, and meaningful learning.
Download or read book Learning Together Online written by Starr Roxanne Hiltz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-22 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the past and future of research on the effectiveness of learning networks (also known as "e-learning" or "online learning" or "Web-based learning"). Learning networks are groups of people using computer technology, communicating and collaborating online to build knowledge together. Over the past decade there has been an explosion not only of online courses, but also of studies on them. In Learning Together Online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks, leading researchers in the field use an integrated theoretical framework, which they call "Online Interaction Learning Theory," to organize what past research shows and where future research is going. It models the variables and processes that are important in determining the relative effectiveness of online learners working to reach a deeper level of understanding by interacting with each other and with the texts under investigation. Now that there have been hundreds of studies and thousands of courses offered online, what does the empirical evidence show? This book addresses the question directly by presenting what is known from research results about how to design and teach courses effectively online, ranging from the organizational context and characteristics of students to learning theories and research design methods. It also provides a research agenda for the next decade. Learning Together Online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks is both a textbook for graduate students and a professional reference for faculty teaching online, researchers conducting studies, and graduate students taking courses about learning technologies who need to know the state of the art of research in the area of online learning.
Download or read book Pedagogy for Online Learning written by Dr. Rodrigo M. Velasco and published by Institute of Industry and Academic Research Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During this unprecedented time, almost all educational institutions have shifted from traditional learning to online learning. When the COVID-19 hit the world, online teaching was no longer an option but a necessity. Due to government restrictions and other related protocols, schools, colleges, and universities opted to deliver academic instructions into online to ensure that students still receive quality learning they deserve. Online learning is a tool in which teaching and learning process still become student-centered, innovative and flexible. However, online learning can also become a disadvantage as there are many challenges associated with online teaching and learning. This e-book offers the different perspectives on online learning: framework, learning experiences both on students and teachers and its associated future management. This e-book offers major research results on the conduct and implementation of online teaching and learning in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a unique perspective on the research issues regarding the effects of online learning from many experts in this field. Let us learn from the various personal experiences and perspectives of the researchers from various fields of specialization!
Download or read book Stabilizing and Empowering Women in Higher Education Realigning Recentering and Rebuilding written by Schnackenberg, Heidi L. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stabilizing and Empowering Women in Higher Education: Realigning, Recentering, and Rebuilding is a book that addresses the challenges faced by women leaders in higher education during the current pandemic. The book is written by experts in the field and draws on emerging evidence-based practices and personal narratives to provide insights into strategies for emotional balance, self-care, and wellbeing for women leaders. It explores the challenges faced by women leaders in higher education and offers solutions for their wellbeing, including reframing and reinventing oneself during the pandemic. This volume is an essential read for women in leadership, faculty, administrators, professional staff, graduate students, and researchers. It provides valuable information and perspectives on creating access for marginalized groups, using roles as women leaders to create change, and nurturing and empowering women in leadership. Overall, it is a persuasive and powerful book that will help readers to realign, recenter, and rebuild in their personal and professional lives.
Download or read book Closure and Reopening of Schools and Universities During the COVID 19 Pandemic Prevention and Control Measures Support Strategies for Vulnerable Students and Psychosocial Needs written by Elena Commodari and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lubkin s Chronic Illness Impact and Intervention written by Pamala D. Larsen and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Lubkin’s Chronic Illness: Impact an Intervention, Eleventh Edition provides a solid foundation for nursing students by teaching them the skills and knowledge they need to care for patients experiencing illness.
