Disciplinary Differences in E-Learning Instructional Design

Glenn Gordon Smith; Ana T. Torres-Ayala; Allen J. Heindel

The Journal of Distance Education / Revue de l'ducation Distance Vol. 22, No. 3 (2008) pp. 63–88

Discipline is a vital, yet largely overlooked, factor in research on e-learning course design. This study investigated disciplinary differences in the instructional design of e-learning, by comparing how instructors of mathematics-related...

E-learning commodity or community: Disciplinary differences between online courses

Glenn G. Smith; Allen J. Heindel; Ana T. Torres-Ayala

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 11, No. 3 (2008) pp. 152–159

Differences in curriculum and teaching styles across disciplines in higher education courses are also evident in online courses. This study used two widely available sources of data, CMS tool usage logs and course evaluations, to analyze differences ...

Language: English

Overcoming student resistance to group work: Online versus face-to-face

Glenn Gordon Smith; Chris Sorensen; Andrew Gump; Allen J. Heindel; Mieke Caris; Christopher D. Martinez

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 14, No. 2 (March 2011) pp. 121–128

This study compared student group work experiences in online (OL) versus face-to-face (f2f) sections of the same graduate course, over three years, to determine what factors influence student group work experiences and how do these factors play out...

Language: English