What Competencies Does the Successful Online Learner Need?

Ileana De la Teja

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 735–742

It is often assumed that online learning is different from classroom learning and that the successful online learner must possess specific skills and characteristics. The usual question is, are online learner competencies different from those of the ...

Modeling the Tutor-Learner Interaction in an E-Learning Environment: An Instructional Design Perspective

Ileana de la Teja; Aytac Simsek

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 1392–1395

Importance of modeling the rapport between tutor and learners in an e-learning environment arises from a learner-centered design approach in which it is essential for the designer to plan the support for learners. This paper describes the...

Topics: Tutoring

Explora: An Open Virtual Campus

Gilbert Paquette; Ileana De la Teja; Aude Dufresne

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 879–884

Telelearning research conducted in our research centre in the last five years has resulted in a Virtual Learning Centre (VLC) model and an implementation for Web-based training called Explora. This system is now in operation at Télé-université, in ...

Topics: Interaction, Distance Education

Designing Adaptable Learning Environments for the Web: A Case Study

Ileana De la Teja; Andrée Longpré; Gilbert Paquette

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 278–283

As the capabilities of information technologies increase, the success of developing learning environments adaptable to individual learner's needs and preferences depends more on design planning than on technical features. This paper focuses on a...

eLearning Reality, ID Processes and Pedagogical Objects

Karin Lundgren-Cayrol; Diane Ruelland; Ileana de la Teja Angeles; France Henri; Marc Couture

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4485–4491

Given the increased importance of learning objects for designing, producing and delivering online courses, concerns arise about reusability and more specifically how practitioners could effectively use them to facilitate the design process. To shed...

Topics: Learning Objects, Research Methods

Competences for Online Teaching & Training

J. Michael Spector; Radha Ganesan; Peter Goodyear; Ileana de la Teja

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1784–1785

This paper explores issues concerning the skills and competences of online teachers. We report on an international two-day workshop with practitioners and researchers. We cover a range of ways of understanding online teaching, including...

Topics: Teachers

Implementation and Deployment of the IMS Learning Design Specification

Gilbert Paquette; Olga Marino; Ileana De la Teja; Michel Lonard; Karin Lundgren-Cayrol; Julien Contamines; Julien Contamines

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jun 15, 2005)

Knowledge management in organizations, the learning objects paradigm, the advent of a new web generation, and the “Semantic Web” are major actual trends that reveal a potential for a renewed distance learning pedagogy. First and foremost is the use...

On-line, Blended Learning and Face-to-Face Instructor Competencies: Are they the Same?

Barbara Grabowski; J. Michael Spector; James Klein; Jan Visser; Ileana de la Teja; Barbara Sorensen; Hae-Deok Song; Rahda Ganesan; Tim Spannaus; Dennis Fields

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 1591–1593

Specifying instructor competencies has become complicated in the current public, private and academic instructional and training environments made possible by the Internet. Great debates have ensued arguing the viability of a common set of...

Topics: Training, Competencies

The Impact of Information Technology on Instructor and Learner Competencies, Part 1

J. Michael Spector; Barbara Grabowski; Barbara Sorensen; James Klein; Ileana de la Teja; Rod Sims; Dennis Fields; Jan Visser; Tim Spannaus

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2029–2032

Online technologies continue to impact teaching and training. Keeping up with competencies required in modern learning environments is a challenge for staff developers, online teachers and trainers and instructional designers. This symposium will...

Topics: Competencies, Standards, Professional Development, Teachers, Training