Archive for the 'Research Studies' Category

We Don’t Get No Respect!

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Okay, I’ve been sitting on some of these entries for a while in my Bloglines account, and since it has been a while since I posted here and since AECT is coming up in less than a month, I figured I should deal with them.
The first that I’ve wanted to chat about was an entry called [...]

Virtual Schooling Evaluations

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

One of the more commons ways that research has been conducted on virtual schooling has been through the process of conducting evaluations.  In May and June I posted a series that outlined the research studies that I have conducted with virtual schools, specifically the Centre for Distance Learning and Innovation.  In that discussion I failed to [...]

Achievement Differences Between Students in Traditional and Virtual Courses

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

This study was actually a follow-up to a study that I had conducted a couple of years ago that only considered students in the Advanced Placement program in Newfoundland and Labrador.  This particular study is also being used as a foundation for my dissertation study, as my dissertation is looking at what online learning looks [...]

Students Perceptions of Web-Based Design

Friday, June 30th, 2006

This study was a follow-up to the teachers and designers perceptions of web-based design study that had been conducted the previous year (see Teachers and Designers Perceptions of Web-Based Design). Like the previous study, this is one that I have yet to publish on – although I do have a fairly good findings section created [...]

Student Perceptions of Online Learning

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

This was the first study that I conducted after joining the online learning research group that Dr. Hill had established here at the University of Georgia – yes, this is the same group that is sponsoring this BlogTrack.  The actual research projet was one that had been originally conducted by Liyan and Ernise Singleton (Higher Education) [...]

Teachers and Designers Perceptions of Web-Based Design

Monday, June 19th, 2006

This was the first study that I conducted as a doctoral student at the University of Georgia.  It started as a project that I did for my qualitative research courses, that I would expand upon later – see one of the future entries on Student Perceptions of Web-Based Design.
The purpose of this study is to [...]

Usage of Instant Messaging as a Means of Community Building in e-Learning Environments

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Okay, I know that I’m a little behind on these, and it is appropriate that this is the one where the break occurred – as the research study described in this entry is the only one that I haven’t done a lot with (basically I have only presented this at a single conference, with no [...]

Learning Styles, Student Performance and Web-based Design

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

This is the second study that I conducted with the Centre for Distance Learning and Innovation.  It began during the first year of operation while I was the Web-Based Initiatives Facilitator for the Vista School District (i.e., I was responsible for the introduction of the CDLI in my school district).  In the first year there [...]

The Role of the Mediating Teacher

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

This is the first of seven different research studies that I have conducted with the Centre for Distance Learning and Innovation.  Over the next four weeks (basically for the month of June), I’ll be posted two entries a week that describe these seven studies.  Your thoughts and ideas about what I have done, what I [...]