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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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Ally, Mohamed; Cleveland-Innes, Marti; Wiseman, Colin – Journal of Distance Education, 2010
The advances of communication technologies have allowed professionals to work on distance education projects in a telework environment. Managers of these projects must have the skills to manage the projects from a distance. They must be able to select the appropriate team members to work on the project, orient team members, and monitor team…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Teleworking, Teamwork, Program Administration
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Koole, Marguerite; McQuilkin, Janice Letkeman; Ally, Mohamed – Journal of Distance Education, 2010
Can mobile technology improve flexibility and quality of interaction for graduate students in distance programs? This paper reports the results of an innovative study exploring the usability, learning, and social interaction of mobile access to online course materials at a Canadian distance education university. Through a system called MobiGlam,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses, Technology Uses in Education
Ally, Mohamed; Cleveland-Innes, Martha; Boskic, Natasha; Larwill, Sandra – Journal of Distance Education, 2006
This article reports findings from a study exploring the generativity (Gibbons, Nelson, & Richards, 2000; Parrish, 2004) and discoverability (Friesen, 2001) of learning objects in the hands of the learner. Through the convergence of two separate pilot projects--the Canadian EduSource initiative through Athabasca University, and the researchers'…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Pilot Projects, Online Courses, Lifelong Learning
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Moisey, Susan D.; Ally, Mohamed; Spencer, Bob – American Journal of Distance Education, 2006
This study explored barriers and facilitating factors affecting the development and use of learning objects in developing instructional materials and their use in supporting individualized learning. Over a two-month period, students in a graduate-level instructional design course developed instructional materials incorporating learning objects or…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Graduate Students, Qualitative Research, Student Experience
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Fahy, Patrick J.; Ally, Mohamed – American Journal of Distance Education, 2005
This article describes a study of the relation between learning style, as measured by the Kolb Learning Style Inventory, and online communication behavior, as measured by analysis of transcripts of computer-mediated conferencing (CMC) interaction using a previously developed tool. Analysis of over fifty-nine hundred sentences, generated by forty…
Descriptors: Interaction, Cognitive Style, Computer Mediated Communication, Graduate Students
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Ally, Mohamed; Coldeway, Dan O. – Journal of Distance Education, 1999
Reviews the development phase of a collaborative inquiry initiative undertaken among staff in the Center for Distance Education, Athabasca University, Canada, to identify competencies required of master's-level experts in distance education. The competencies are clustered in four skill sets, and basic procedures for developing a taxonomy of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education