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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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Demiray, Emine – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
The most important factor that enables women to become individuals in society is education. It is also a very crucial part of rectifying the circumstances they are in. Besides formal, mass and distance education institutions, there are some other mechanisms to support women's individuality, their personal development and improve gender…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Expectation, Distance Education
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Rybanov, Alexander Aleksandrovich – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
The article offers the educational information quantization method for improving content quality in Learning Management Systems. The paper considers questions concerning analysis of quality of quantized presentation of educational information, based on quantitative text parameters: average frequencies of parts of speech, used in the text; formal…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Management Systems, Electronic Learning, Educational Research
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Kirko, Vladimir I.; Malakhova, Ekaterina V.; Pack, Nikolay I. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
This article discusses the main trends of global education and educational problems in the Arctic and Siberian regions. The modern labor markets are changing in the Arctic. The modern labor market requires the creation of new jobs associated with the provision of the Arctic zone with food. Small food productions will be created. We will need a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Food, Distance Education
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Mahmood, Sheikh Tariq; Mahmood, Azhar – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
The current study aims to investigate awareness of research students about the concept of plagiarism and to suggest possible ways to avoid it; a descriptive survey study was conducted. The objectives of the study were to examine the researcher's knowledge about concept of plagiarism, knowledge about specific terminologies, types of…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Student Behavior, Cheating, Likert Scales
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Aziz, Tahir; Chuadhry, Muhammad Asif; Liaquat, Sumaira; Ali, Asim – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
To meet the educational needs of inmates, educational scholars of the world have attempted numerous strategies and interventions designs to facilitate learning and to improve achievement. The real function of a prison is to help develop better citizens, not just better inmates. Therefore, the present study was designed to investigate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
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Mokula, Lebeloane Lazarus Donald; Lovemore, Nyaumwe – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
The present study narrated the forms, factors and consequences of cheating in university examinations by UNISA Open and Distance learning students from anecdotal data. The results showed that the perpetrators mostly used crib materials on paper, ruler and calculator cover. The factors that influenced examination cheating were gender, age range and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Open Education, Cheating, College Students
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Queiroz, Fernanda Cristina Barbosa Pereira; Samohyl, Robert Wayne; Queiroz, Jamerson Viegas; Lima, Nilton Cesar; de Souza, Gustavo Henrique Silva – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
This paper aims to develop and implement a method to identify the causes of the choice of a course and the reasons for evasion in higher education. This way, we sought to identify the factors that influence student choice to opt for Higher Education Institution parsed, as well as the factors influencing its evasion. The methodology employed was…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Decision Making
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Tsai, Bor-Yuan; Yen, Jung-Nan – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2014
E-books and e-Reading Devices (E-RDs) markets have been enlarged due to the rapid progress of digital technologies. What are the possible factors to increase readers' willingness to use electronic devices? To improve the predictive value of the original TAM model, this study incorporates three additional constructs to form e-Reading Device…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Books, Electronic Publishing, Handheld Devices
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Shin, Sunghee – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2014
This study was designed to enrich the learning experiences of in-service and pre-service teachers in two educational technology classes by adopting e-books as the course material. Graduate students were more positive about their e-book reading experience than undergraduate students, but, surprisingly, more undergraduates (63.6%) became interested…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Electronic Publishing, Books, Instructional Materials
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Senyuva, Emine; Tasocak, Gülsün – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2014
The research was carried out in 2005-2006 as a descriptive and methodological study. It aimed to obtain students' feedback and to serve as a source for future relevant studies. The setting of the study was Istanbul University Florence Nightingale Nursing College and at Istanbul University Bakirköy Health College. The sample of the study…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Patients
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Bledsoe, T. Scott; Harmeyer, Dave; Wu, Shuang Frances – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2014
The authors offer an answer to the research question, To what extent and in what ways is Twitter helpful to student learning when group hashtags are created and used in collaborative educational environments? Sixty-two students in a spring 2012 graduate online Research Methodology course worked individually and in groups to create discussions on…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Educational Technology, Graduate Students, Online Courses
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Cassar, Maria; Trapani, Josef – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2014
This artifact identifies the main challenges experienced by the authors, both nurse educators, in the delivery of a module on evidence based practice exclusively through the use of an e-learning platform. The module has been running for the past four years as part of an entirely online post registration programme for qualified health professionals…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Nursing Education, Allied Health Personnel, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Tierney, Patrick J.; Moisey, Susan – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2014
This exploratory mixed methods case study examined the use of distance education technology for lifestyle change within the context of obesity treatment and weight management. In the quantitative phase of the study, 19 adults involved in an obesity-related lifestyle change program or change process completed a questionnaire that determined their…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Access to Computers, Guidelines, Mixed Methods Research
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Inventado, Paul Salvador; Legaspi, Roberto; Moriyama, Koichi; Fukui, Ken-ichi; Numao, Masayuki – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2014
Students engage in many learning activities outside of class but, it is not easy for them to learn on their own because they also need to identify what activities to perform, decide how long to engage in them, evaluate their progress, shift to other activities if needed and avoid distractions aside from others. This research designed and…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Independent Study, Self Management
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Fardinpour, Ali; Pedram, Mir Mohsen; Burkle, Martha – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2014
Virtual Learning Environments have been the center of attention in the last few decades and help educators tremendously with providing students with educational resources. Since artificial intelligence was used for educational proposes, learning management system developers showed much interest in making their products smarter and more…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Models, Decision Making, Artificial Intelligence
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