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50 Years of ERIC
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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Picciano, Anthony G.; Seaman, Jeff; Shea, Peter; Swan, Karen – Internet and Higher Education, 2012
In 1992, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation began its "Anytime, Anyplace Learning Program", the purpose of which was to explore educational alternatives for people who wanted to pursue an education via Internet technology. Part of this grant activity was a research award to the Babson College Survey Research Group to examine online learning in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses, School Districts
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Swan, Karen; Matthews, Daniel; Bogle, Leonard; Boles, Emily; Day, Scott – Internet and Higher Education, 2012
This paper reports on preliminary findings from ongoing design-based research being conducted in the fully online Master of Arts in Teacher Leadership (MTL) program at a small, Midwest public university. Researchers are using the Quality Matters (QM) and Community of Inquiry (CoI) frameworks to guide the iterative redesign of core courses in the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Masters Degrees, Teacher Leadership
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Diaz, Sebastian R.; Swan, Karen; Ice, Philip; Kupczynski, Lori – Internet and Higher Education, 2010
This research builds upon prior validation studies of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) survey by utilizing multiple rating measures to validate the survey's tripartite structure (teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence). In prior studies exploring the construct validity of these 3 subscales, only respondents' course ratings were…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Internet, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction
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Ho, Chia-Huan; Swan, Karen – Internet and Higher Education, 2007
This study goes beyond student perceptions of online learning experiences, satisfaction, and attitudes, to examine the actual participation and dynamics that occur in online discussions and their relationship to student learning outcomes. A content analysis approach was used to investigate students' socio-cognitive processes in an online…
Descriptors: Grammar, Student Participation, Online Courses, Scoring Rubrics