A fully online learning environment requires effective learning management in order to promote pro-active education. Since student’s notes are a reflection of the progress of their education, analysis of notes taken can be used to track the learning process of students who participate in fully online courses. This paper presents the causal relationships between student’s characteristics, note-t...

Final Exam Total time for the exam: 3 hours! Please sign in and turn the exam sheet with your notebook. A notebook without the test sheet won't be graded. I am respecting the rules of the exam and won't discuss the exam with anybody till 5pm the 24th of July: Signature 1. True or False (55 points) Let X, Y, Z be discrete random variable. Copy each relation to your notebook and write true or fal...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are differences between different age and gender groups of adult learners when they are compared simultaneously on the number of messages they post, selfefficacy improvement and academic performance in an online learning environment. A two-way MANOVA revealed significant main and interaction effects on the dependent variables. Older stu...

A study was undertaken to determine the impact of online lecture notes on learning outcomes of students in a web-assisted first engineering thermodynamics course taught in a traditional faceto-face classroom setting. In the control group lectures were presented using a classroom computer projector and chalkboard. In the test group the same material and approach were taken, but the instructor's ...

Miller CJ, McNear J, Metz MJ. A comparison of traditional and engaging lecture methods in a large, professional-level course. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 347–355, 2013; doi:10.1152/advan.00050.2013.—In engaging lectures, also referred to as broken or interactive lectures, students are given short periods of lecture followed by “breaks” that can consist of 1-min papers, problem sets, brainstorming sess...

It is not permitted to use cell phones, calculators, laptops, MP3 players, Blackberries or other such electronic devices at any time during exams. If you use a hearing aid or other such device, you should make your instructor aware of this before the exam begins. You must turn off your cell phone, etc., prior to the beginning of the exam. If you need to leave the exam room for any reason before...

Undergraduates (N = 189) rated their test anxiety and emotions immediately before a midterm examination and recalled those feelings 1 week later. Students who learned they had done well on the exam underestimated, and those who learned they had done poorly overestimated, pre-exam test anxiety. Personality traits and emotional states together predicted memory distortion. Specifically, traits pre...

Two experiments concerning humor in teaching and learning in higher education are presented. The first study used relevant humor in a one-semester statistics course in an experimental group and no humor in a control group. One hundred sixty-one students participated, and the results showed significant differences between the two groups in favor of the group learning with humor. No significant s...

Bodensteiner KJ. Emergency contraception and RU-486 (mifepristone): do bioethical discussions improve learning and retention? Adv Physiol Educ 36: 34–41, 2012; doi:10.1152/advan.00122.2011.—To systematically investigate whether the inclusion of a bioethical discussion improves the learning and retention of biological content, students in two sections of an introductory zoology class were taught...