Developing and evaluating a minimal set of guidelines for Web Site Design for All

Maria Flood; Mary Sharp

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 622–629

The last five years has seen considerable interest in the use of elearning web resources by lecturers and teachers. Typically these web resources contain both content acquired or referenced from other (external) sites, as well as a considerable...

Topics: Teachers, eLearning

Virtual Empathy? Anxieties and Connections Teaching and Learning Pastoral Care Online

Melinda McGarrah Sharp; Mary Ann Morris

Teaching Theology & Religion Vol. 17, No. 3 (2014) pp. 247–263

Is it possible to teach pastoral care online? McGarrah Sharp and Morris describe their process of transforming a residential on-campus pastoral care course into the first online offering of the course at their seminary. They begin by describing a...

A Review of Personalised E-Learning: Towards Supporting Learner Diversity

Eileen O'Donnell; Séamus Lawless; Mary Sharp; Vincent Wade

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 13, No. 1 (2015) pp. 22–47

The realisation of personalised e-learning to suit an individual learner's diverse learning needs is a concept which has been explored for decades, at great expense, but is still not achievable by non-technical authors. This research reviews the...

OSSES: An Online System for Studies on Evaluation of Systems

Catherine W Mulwa; Mary Sharp; Vincent Wade; Seamus Lawless

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3210–3219

Abstract: Web crawlers are a significant component in Web search engines. This paper describes a distributed, Web-based system consisting of 3 layers: presentation, business logic and data persistence. The educational benefit of this system is in...

Context Matters: Increasing Understanding with Interactive Clicker Case Studies

Mary A. Lundeberg; Hosun Kang; Bjorn Wolter; Robert delMas; Norris Armstrong; Bruno Borsari; Nancy Boury; Peggy Brickman; Kristi Hannam; Cheryl Heinz; Thomas Horvath; Maureen Knabb; Terry Platt; Nancy Rice; Bill Rogers; Joan Sharp; Eric Ribbens; Kimberly S. Maier; Mike Deschryver; Rodney Hagley; Tamar Goulet; Clyde F. Herreid

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 59, No. 5 (October 2011) pp. 645–671

Although interactive technology is presumed to increase student understanding in large classes, no previous research studies have empirically explored the effects of Clicker Cases on students' performance. A Clicker Case is a story (e.g., a problem...