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Becerra-Alonso, David; Lopez-Cobo, Isabel; Gómez-Rey, Pilar; Fernández-Navarro, Francisco; Barbera, Elena – Distance Education, 2020
This article describes the development of an application for the grading and provision of feedback on educational processes. The too, named "EduZinc," enables instructors to go through the complete process of creating and evaluating the activities and materials of a course. The application enables for the simultaneous management of two…
Descriptors: Grading, Feedback (Response), Student Centered Learning, Educational Technology
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Gómez-Rey, Pilar; Barbera, Elena; Fernández-Navarro, Francisco – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
This paper determines which instructional roles and outputs are important in the 21st century from the perspective of students in asynchronous learning environments. This research work uses a literature review, in-depth interviews with experts, and a pilot study with students to define the instructors' outputs. Following this, roles are determined…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Educational Environment, Teacher Role, Student Attitudes
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Gómez-Rey, Pilar; Fernández-Navarro, Francisco; Barbera, Elena; Carbonero-Ruz, Mariano – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
In this paper, we have developed a classification model for online learning environments that relates the Instructors Overall Performance (IOP) rating (according to students' perceptions) with the course characteristics, students' demographics and the effectiveness of the instructor in his/her teaching roles. To that end, a comprehensive Student…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Student Attitudes, Course Content
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Gómez-Rey, Pilar; Barbera, Elena; Fernández-Navarro, Francisco – Distance Education, 2016
This article explores the quality of the online learning experience based on the Sloan-C framework and the Online Learning Consortium's (OLC) quality scorecard. The OLC index has been implemented to evaluate quality in online programs from different perspectives. Despite this, the opinions of learners are ignored, and it is built using feedback…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Student Experience, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Gómez-Rey, Pilar; Barbera, Elena; Fernández-Navarro, Francisco – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
Due to the increasingly multicultural nature of e-learning environments, it is critical that instructors and instructional designers be aware of the importance of cultural factors in education and that they deliver culturally adaptive instruction. The main challenge of this paper is identifying the critical success factors for multicultural online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Cultural Influences, Student Surveys
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Gómez-Rey, Pilar; Barbera, Elena; Fernández-Navarro, Francisco – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
The topic of online instructors' roles has been of interest to the educational community since the late twentieth century. In previous studies, the identification of online instructors' roles was done using a top-down (deductive) approach. This study applied a bottom-up (inductive) procedure to examine not only the roles of online instructors from…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes