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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Palmer, Stuart; Holt, Dale – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Academic staff play a fundamental role in the use of online learning environments (OLEs) by students, yet studies investigating the perspectives of staff are limited, and the least common investigations are those comparing the relative perceptions of students and staff. Many OLE evaluations present a point-in-time snapshot of the system, but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Holt, Dale; Palmer, Stuart; Munro, Judy; Solomonides, Ian; Gosper, Maree; Hicks, Margaret; Sankey, Michael; Allan, Garry; Hollenbeck, Robert – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
The paper presents the findings of the first year of a nationally funded Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) project on the quality management of online learning environments by and through distributed leadership. The project is being undertaken by five Australian universities with major commitments to online and distance education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Focus Groups, Quality Control
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Palmer, Stuart; Holt, Dale – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
Academic staff play a fundamental role in the use of online learning by students. Yet, compared to studies reporting student perspectives on online learning, studies investigating the perspectives of academic staff are much more limited. Perhaps the least common investigations are those that compare the perceptions of academic staff and students…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Environment, Course Evaluation, Comparative Analysis
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Holt, Dale; Challis, Di – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
One institution's attempts to implement an ambitious wholly online learning policy is examined in the Australian higher education setting. The conditions that led to a diversity of models of wholly online unit development are considered, along with teachers' design intents in establishing their online teaching and learning environments. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
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Challis, Di; Holt, Dale; Rice, Mary – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
This paper reports on a cross-disciplinary comparative study that examines the interplay between information and communications technologies (ICT) and experiential learning, in the context of seven fields of professional practice in undergraduate education. Our central claim is that academic teachers' framing of the meaning and nature of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Experiential Learning, Comparative Analysis
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Segrave, Stephen; Holt, Dale; Farmer, James – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
To gain the full educational benefits of the major new investments in corporate technologies supporting online teaching and learning it is argued that a strategic, systems based approach to academic professional development (APD) is required. Such an approach requires a clear view of the key areas of potential and enduring teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Systems Approach, Teacher Role, Higher Education