As online education becomes common, it is essential to identify activities that support critical thinking in this environment. This paper describes the use of a model-eliciting activity (MEA) solved by groups in a synchronous online discussion. The participants displayed their thinking processes and solutions consistent with successful face-to-face (F2F) MEAs. Each group’s discussion showed evi...

In today’s ultra modern world the traditional face to face (F2F)teaching has been replace by e-learning or online learning .Companies find this method very effective to train their employees without using up work hours. E-learning has been implemented by many educational institutions at undergraduate and graduate level in the Gulf region. Blended learning has been adopted by many schools and un...

This paper reports on a study whose purpose was to compare student ratings of instruction in online and face-to-face (F2F) higher education courses in an effort to better understand how faculty can strengthen their teaching in the online environment. Student ratings of instruction in online and on-campus courses were examined in two different ways that yielded similar findings. First, more than...

Socialization is one means through which globally distributed teams (GDTs) can improve collaboration. However, harnessing socializing processes to support globally distributed collaboration is not easy. In particular, infrequent and limited face-to-face (F2F) contact between remote counterparts might result in diYculties in sharing norms, attitudes and behaviours. In this paper we seek to under...

To understand instruction during the spring 2020 transition to emergency distance learning (EDL), we surveyed a sample of instructors teaching undergraduate EDL courses at large university in southwest. We asked them how frequently they used and confident were their ability implement each nine promising practices, both for course time when previously taught same face-to-face (F2F). Using latent...

Heutagogy and blended learning (BL) are core concepts in the educational discourse post-COVID-19. Conducting a mixed-methods study, we investigate meeting points between heutagogy principles BL context of curricular change academic timetable teacher education college, where pre-COVID most courses have been taught face-to-face (F2F). At present, educators students meet F2F for three weeks, follo...

FACE TO FACE: FRANCO BELTRAMETTI AND JUDITH DANCIGER: A COUPLE OF TRANSLATORS
 In 1973 Franco Beltrametti, a Swiss author strictly connected to both the authors of Beat Generation and those Italian neo-avant-garde (Gruppo 63), published bilingual collection poems in English that he significantly titled Face face (Grosseteste, England). As stated book itself, versions are translations by hi...