Archive for the 'Teachers' Category

Where To Next?

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

At present I am currently finishing my dissertation study, which was a case study that looked at how a virtual high school was being implemented in one rural school.  As a follow-up to that, I have copied below a section of a proposal that I wrote for a one year post-doctoral fellowship to continue research with this [...]

Struggling with Virtual Schooling Issues

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

A colleague of mine, Derek Wenmoth, has posted an entry to his blog (see Derek’s Blog) which I think is particularly interesting.  The entry, Tackling online learning in our secondary schools, talks about some thngs going on down in New Zealand in K-12 online learning and then proceeds to ask a long series of questions [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]