Learn Japanese Online: Elementary

Reading-to-learn and Writing-to-learn Science Activities for the Elementary School Classroom

Many elementary school teachers realize that more and more hands-on activities is not the solution to unsatisfactory science literacy. The process-product debate of the 1960s reform in which alphabet science programs exclusively promoted hands-on concrete discovery activities was not successful for about 75% of elementary school teachers. The uncertainty of unstructured explorations, the discou...

Online Handwritten Chinese/Japanese Character Recognition

Handwritten character pattern recognition methods are generally divided into two types: online recognition and offline recognition [1]. Online recognition recognizes character patterns captured from a pen-based or touch-based input device where trajectories of pentip or finger-tip movements are recorded, while offline recognition recognizes character patterns captured from a scanner or a camera...

Online patient records: a trend ASCs should learn to embrace.

Surviving the Shipwreck: What Makes Online Students Stay Online and Learn?

Although much is written about reasons why students drop out of online courses, little is said about what makes them stay. This article reports on an experiment whereby online students were exposed to a learning experience modelled on the US television series Survivor. Twenty-four students were put into tribes and allowed to vote one another off the island at the end of each week. Students who ...

Learner Experiences in Online Courses: Towards a Model for Learning to Learn Online

This qualitative case study explored learner experiences in online courses. This short paper present the model developed from the data analysis that shows the online learning experiences of the participants in the study.