A Real-Time Wed-based System to facilitate meaningful learning in Statistics

Carl Lee; John Daniels; Felix Famoye

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3619–3627

Statistics deals with the uncertainty of real world phenomena. It is natural that statistics uses technology, especially in the part of 'doing statistics' by easing the burden of computation needed in statistical techniques. The modern technology...

Topics: Integration

The Question of Quality: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Distance Education

John Burton; D. Michael Moore; Barbara Lockee; Harold Daniels

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) p. 203

Determining the effectiveness of distance-delivered courses and programs is important not only from an instructor's perspective, but a necessary function for many stakeholders involved in the support of distance education (DE) efforts. This session...

Topics: Distance Education

Molecular and Cellular Biology Animations: Development and Impact on Student Learning

Phillip McClean; Christina Johnson; Roxanne Rogers; Lisa Daniels; John Reber; Brian M. Slator; Jeff Terpstra; Alan White

Cell Biology Education Vol. 4, No. 2 (2005) pp. 169–179

Educators often struggle when teaching cellular and molecular processes because typically they have only two-dimensional tools to teach something that plays out in four dimensions. Learning research has demonstrated that visualizing processes in...