Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
October 2012 Volume 13, Number 4
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 24
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Predictive Role of Personality Traits on Internet Addiction
Serkan Celik, Hasan Atak & Ahmet Basal
Aiming to develop a model seeking to investigate the direct effects of personality types on internet addiction, this study was set and tested on tertiary level students receiving education within... More
pp. 10-24
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Web-Based Adaptive Testing System (WATS) for Classifying Students Academic Ability
Jaemu Lee, Sanghoon Park & Kwangho Kim
Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) has been highlighted as a promising assessment method to fulfill two testing purposes: estimating student academic ability and classifying student academic level. In... More
pp. 25-35
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Development of Interactive Multimedia Courseware (e-CRAFT) for Craft Education
Salyani Osman, Noraidah Sahari & Nor Azan Mat Zin
The way of teaching and learning traditional crafts have always used traditional apprenticeship learning methods where the expert facilitates transfer of practice skill sets to novices. As a craft ... More
pp. 36-54
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Integrating LMSs in the Educational Process: Greek Teachers' Initial Perceptions about LAMS
Spyros Papadakis, Nikos Dovros, Giorgos Paschalis & Eleni Rossiou
E-learning with the use of Learning Management Systems, has been increasingly adopted in Primary, Secondary and Higher Education with the expectation to increase students' motivation and infuse... More
pp. 55-75
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ODL Students' Perceived Computer Literacy Competencies, Expectations of Support Intention to Use and Perseverance
Hendrik D. Esterhuizen, Suria M. Ellis & Christo J. Els
This paper reports on disadvantaged South African practising teachers' perceptions on computer literacy competencies while studying to improve their teaching qualifications. During the process of... More
pp. 76-94
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Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Corrective Feedback and the Correct Use of Prepositions: Is It Really Effective?
Seyyed Behrooz Hosseini
An area that has recently attracted increasing attention is providing feedback on learners' writing accuracy through the Internet. However, research in this area has largely focused on synchronous ... More
pp. 95-111
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ICT Implementation Challenges and Strategies for ODL Institutions: The ZOU's National Centre Academic Staff Experiences
Richard Tafara Nenge, Zvinaiye Chimbadzwa & Tichaona Mapolisa
This study highlighted some of the major challenges that Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) academic staff experiences in connection with Information Communication Technology (ICT) implementation. It... More
pp. 112-124
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High School Students' Views on Blended Learning
Ibrahim Umit Yapici & Hasan Akbayin
In this study, it is aimed to determine the high school students' views on blended learning. The study was carried out in biology course for the lesson unit of "Classification of Living Things and ... More
pp. 125-139
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The Use of e-Assessments in the Nigerian Higher Education System
U S. A. Osuji
The rapid development of the information and communication technologies has brought about the modernization of teaching and learning across the globe. Today, teaching and learning are made easy... More
pp. 140-152
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To Learn from Teachers at School, Ideal Teacher or E-Learning Applications from the Perspectives of Gifted Students
Bahadir Eristi
The present study, aimed at revealing the views of elementary school gifted students about the roles and behaviors of their teachers in class as well as about the in-class roles and behaviors that ... More
pp. 153-166
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Virtual or Physical: In-Service and Pre-Service Teacher's Beliefs and Preferences on Manipulatives
Yasar Akkan
Although the use of physical manipulatives, which have been emphasized to use in preschool education program and primary and secondary mathematics curriculum, in classroom environments is old, it... More
pp. 167-192
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Comparison between Synchronous and Asynchronous Instructional Delivery Method of Training Programme on In-Service Physical Educators' Knowledge
Kyriaki Emmanouilidou, Vassiliki Derri, Panagiotis Antoniou & Pavlos Kyrgiridis
The purpose of the study was to compare the influences of a training programme's instructional delivery method (synchronous and asynchronous) on Greek in-service physical educators' cognitive... More
pp. 193-208
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Using Blogs to Improve Students' Summary Writing Abilities
Orachorn Kitchakarn
The research compared students' summary writing ability before and after they were taught through blog, a new medium or tool for written communication and interaction in many different languages... More
pp. 209-219
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D[superscript 4]S[superscript 4]: A Four Dimensions Instructional Strategy for Web-Based and Blended Learning
Hamdy A. Abdelaziz
Web-based education is facing a paradigm shift under the rapid development of information and communication technology. The new paradigm of learning requires special techniques of course design,... More
pp. 220-235
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A Study of Attitude and Perception of the Learners towards Distance Education in Relation to Their Biographical Factors
Samir Kumar Lenka & Ravi Kant
Distance education may play an increasingly important role during this decade in helping address the growing shortage of teachers, educational administrators and other educational professionals... More
pp. 236-244
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Interaction in Distance Nursing Education
Belgin Boz Yuksekdag
The purpose of this study is to determine psychiatry nurses' attitudes toward the interactions in distance nursing education, and also scrunize their attitudes based on demographics and computer... More
pp. 245-255
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ICT and Web Technology Based Innovations in Education Sector
Dhamdhere Sangeeta Namdev
ICT made real magic and drastic changes in all service sectors along with higher education and library practices and services. The academic environment is changing from formal education to distance... More
pp. 256-268
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Challenges and Strategies for E-Learning Development in the University of Payam Noor in Iran
Mahnaz Mohamadzadeh, Jabraeal Farzaneh, Mina Mousavi & Rouhallah Maghabl
Higher education in Iran is confronting with several challenges; Some of them are increasing demand for education and insufficiency of current programs to meet the growing needs, emerging... More
pp. 297-308
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Cross-Border Distance Education (CBDE) in a Wired World: The Experience of a Student in Nigeria
Charity Fakinlede
It is imperative for countries to provide quality education that would empower their people to compete and benefit from the growing socio-cultural global exchanges of the 21[superscript st] century... More
pp. 309-319
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Re-Learning Higher Education in the Age of Convergence: Example of Lithuania
Loreta Ulvydiene
Since May of 1999, 46 European countries have been engaged in reconstructing their higher education systems to bring about a greater degree of "convergence," i.e. a move toward common reference... More
pp. 320-332