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The digital transformation of learning environments affords the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) option for students. But, what arrangements (e.g., policy and tech support) are in place at your...
01 January 2019 2,901 8 View
We are constantly looking for ways to teach better and creating tools and materials to this end. I am interested in hearing from you what is the next best thing in education. Many thanks, Debra
10 October 2018 5,282 23 View
Recently in our local news, it was reported that a secondary school student severed the hand of a parent. When asked why, the student reportedly told the police that it was because the parent took...
04 April 2018 6,603 8 View
Sometimes in qualitative research the interview data alone may appear a little too subjective, so some observation data are collected to triangulate the data but not necessarily answer a separate...
02 February 2018 8,511 15 View
Our busy academic schedules do not always allow for monitoring our personal files at the University. Have you ever had an experience of discovering formal communication on your performance placed...
02 February 2018 2,702 9 View
IoT is here to stay but appears to be more prevalent in industry, connecting machine-machine, human-machine, and human-things. But, is the latter happening in higher education institutions and if...
01 January 2018 8,529 4 View
Course evaluations can be subjective depending on the grades students receive in the course. I always respond to my course evaluations in bringing balance to what is reported to my Dean and...
01 January 2018 7,809 4 View
The advancement in technology has resulted in teaching and learning becoming ubiquitous (anywhere and anytime). One such advancement is the e-book. But how popular is the latter in programmes...
01 January 2018 5,486 9 View
Strategies for sustainable development continues to gain attention on the global landscape. I am particularly interested in strategies for sustaining industrial development across the globe. Our...
01 January 2018 1,731 11 View
The advancement in technology has placed course topic information literally at the finger tips of students in our classes. They even engage in a face-to-screen interaction to find answers to...
12 December 2017 1,232 4 View
Web-conferencing is used more frequently with the rise in online and blended programs. I have had to frequently ask students to turn off their video cams because their dress and background views...
12 December 2017 2,214 10 View
Frequently I am finding that after master's students have completed their course work, which included their research courses, they are still lacking in the rudiments of academic writing (e.g., APA...
12 December 2017 9,842 6 View
Inforgraphics are now becoming mainstream in making presentations. Can you share any inforgraphics you have done in presenting your research at a conference or otherwise? Sharing can help some of...
11 November 2017 6,849 3 View
It's becoming more and more apparent that the competition in academia can lead to the "pulling down" of some and the "lifting up" of others. How do you maintain a healthy faculty environment that...
10 October 2017 9,327 3 View
Academia is a very competitive environment so conflict is inevitable and can give rise to both challenges and benefits. What have been your experiences with the latter? Your feedback is always...
10 October 2017 4,020 10 View
Training for faculty for integrating technology in teaching and learning is ongoing but not necessarily compulsory in most universities. What has been your experience with such training and its...
08 August 2017 7,964 8 View
Very often there is the belief that integrating technology into teaching and learning will automatically make it more engaging. However, the real proof of the latter is in the student feedback....
08 August 2017 6,331 7 View
Sometimes students write the Chapter 3 of their research proposal in the past tense instead of the future tense in order to save time later on, especially when they are pressed for time. How do...
05 May 2017 2,166 7 View
Tenure track requirements include showing that you can work collaboratively with other researchers in advancing knowledge in your field. But, what is the extent of such collaboration and how does...
03 March 2017 9,412 4 View
Renowned researchers have advised that either questions or hypotheses should be used in a research study but not both. But, is there any exception for using both, especially for a prediction. I...
02 February 2017 8,511 7 View
It appears that second marking is not always what the name implies as I'm discovering. Does your University have specific guidelines regarding the second marking of scripts and what have been your...
12 December 2016 2,858 7 View
There is a category of students who are sometimes overlooked in our school system - students who go to school and also work part-time in order to meet personal and family needs. What theories can...
11 November 2016 2,567 3 View
I am currently developing a dual course on flexible learning design and development that teaches you how to flex learning in four popular modes: blended learning, e-learning, mobile learning, and...
11 November 2016 8,971 5 View
I am interested in knowing if you have ever used a website as a learning management system for a course with the blog feature as a discussion forum. I am seeing the latter used as an alternative...
09 September 2016 5,349 3 View
There's much debate on whether learning in the 21st Century is about using technology or not. What is you take on the latter? I am very interested to hear your views on this question. Many...
09 September 2016 1,203 21 View
I would like to source rubrics that you use for an assessment portfolio, which evaluates a student-teacher's ability to meet set learning outcomes. I'll be very grateful if you can share what you...
08 August 2016 4,068 1 View
Dear Colleagues:Sometimes graduate students who are not strong in using their chosen statistical test, although they know that it is suitable, have someone else run their statistical tests for...
07 July 2016 6,813 22 View
The semester has now come to end and students are having to submit their final assignments, which also come with an increase in the number of excuses for late submissions. Despite my efforts to...
07 July 2016 4,297 13 View
Dear Colleagues: I am interested in knowing the strategies that best work for you in delivering lectures to large groups in one hour. It's quite challenging to keep this large a group attentive to...
07 July 2016 675 9 View
I have read in Best & Khan (2010) that "assessment and evaluation are NOT research." (p. 23). I sometimes have a difficult time trying to defend this statement to graduate students. I am...
07 July 2016 952 16 View
Sometimes you may find a measuring instrument that is available from a study that is made available via Internet in the public domain. Is it necessary to request permission to use the instrument...
06 June 2016 377 20 View
Our university has established key attributes that our graduates should possess at the end of their educational programmes that include being a critical thinker and reflective leader. We are...
05 May 2016 6,711 13 View
Given the plethora of video content readily available on the Web, gradations in quality can be difficult to distinguish. Does your institution have any stated criteria or guidelines for choosing...
05 May 2016 8,385 24 View
Faculty are required to serve on committees voluntarily as service to the University. However, their are some who habitually don't make it to meetings and do minimal work on such committees...
05 May 2016 7,393 9 View
I attended a research seminar yesterday and the student presenting was doing a qualitative study based on participants' perceptions of the thematic integrated curriculum as an innovation in...
04 April 2016 9,321 13 View
Dear RG Friends: As mentioned before, your expectations for a great conference have been very helpful. However, not many of you talked about publishing conference proceedings, and I would like to...
04 April 2016 5,013 14 View
Today's students are more vocal about their expectations than in the past in higher education. I am wanting to know when students pass on verbal complaints to an academic coordinator of a...
04 April 2016 8,258 30 View
Design thinking is becoming more popular for addressing those difficult problems we encounter in our organisation's and institutional operations. Have you used it to address challenges you face in...
04 April 2016 5,274 15 View
We have had a spate of school-related violent incidences in our local schools that even resulted in teenagers losing their lives. Have you had such experiences and what strategies were employed to...
03 March 2016 2,900 12 View
Dear Friends:I wish to oblige you just one more time in sharing with me some of the oversights you've found in reviewing submissions for conference acceptance. As I shared before, I am on an...
03 March 2016 8,285 12 View
Friends:I am part of an organizing committee for a Mixed Methods research conference taking place next year. We are in the planning stages and I would like to hear from you as researchers your...
03 March 2016 4,428 46 View
Colleagues:I recognize from your conference expectations feedback that we have a lot of planning to do over the course of this year to make for an attractive conference. But, apart from a...
03 March 2016 6,935 10 View
The final day has come after an arduous journey to the oral defense of their final theses/dissertations. Some may be nervous others over or under-confident about their work, but wanting to do...
03 March 2016 8,801 24 View
The analysis line seems blurry when differentiating between learning analytics and BIG data analysis that are becoming more prevalent for improving learning performance among students. Have you...
03 March 2016 6,995 17 View
Colleagues:In following up with the last request, we are now at the stage of a test website for an open source auto-assessment platform for academic writing exercises. The next step in its...
02 February 2016 5,572 3 View
Persons with disabilities in my country are referred to as differently-abled in the media as they have requested for obvious reasons. How has this term "differently-abled" as oppose to "disabled"...
02 February 2016 3,973 9 View
I have found that we share so easily on RG, but it appears to be more restricted when we are among ourselves in our own University environments. What do you think can account for this...
01 January 2016 378 50 View
Sometimes it becomes necessary to refer students to the Writing Center on campus to address their academic writing challenges from the undergraduate to graduate levels. However, as we are dealing...
01 January 2016 1,779 12 View
If two authors contribute the same amount of work on an article, is there such a thing as a 50-50 authorship. If so, do the two authors alternate as first authors in citing the publication? What...
12 December 2015 8,520 16 View
I am still new to the process of advisory committees for graduate research students and would like to ask if you can share what obtains at your universities as the Chair of such committees and as...
12 December 2015 4,666 7 View
It is that time in the semester when I have to grade writing assignments. I am still refining this process and would like to ask if you can share some of your best practice tips for getting the...
12 December 2015 6,535 9 View
I first asked my RG colleagues to send any online resources to academic writing exercises that graduate students can do online and receive automatic feedback in preparation for conducting their...
12 December 2015 4,719 34 View
I am realizing that students do not pay as much attention to criteria for language mechanics and APA style (not weighted very heavily) as they do to the criteria for the content of a writing...
12 December 2015 6,978 55 View
I am looking to build a bank of awarding winning-theses and dissertations mostly in education (Dip. Ed., Master, M.Phil, PhD), so that I can use these as examples for my graduate students. Can you...
12 December 2015 7,595 8 View
I am sometimes confused as to whether students are engaged with understanding the subject content and applying it or by learning to use a new tech tool to facilitate learning in technology...
11 November 2015 8,317 4 View
With a shift to learner-centered pedagogy in the 21st Century, there is much debate about whether we teach students or our content subjects. Which side of the debate are you on and how do you...
11 November 2015 2,711 14 View
I need to provide some practice academic writing exercises for graduate students doing their final research papers. However, I thought I can save time by using what's available, so I am asking if...
11 November 2015 8,771 27 View
The possibilities of using Web 4.0 tools are currently being discussed by IT experts and other interested stakeholders at conferences. Artificial intelligence is seen as one of the key...
10 October 2015 7,532 16 View
I have been supervising graduate students for just over three years, but my experience has led me to believe that there needs to be a separate 1-credit seminar course on "Orientation to Graduate...
10 October 2015 1,838 1 View
Research has shown that there is a symbiotic relationship between reading and writing generally. Is latter borne out in your own experience with graduate students and if so, what strategies do you...
09 September 2015 5,243 2 View
I am trying to find a very reputable Open Educational Resource for writing academic essays for my asynchronous tutorial with untrained teachers. Your recommendations are welcomed. Many thanks, Debra
08 August 2015 3,220 1 View
Teaching with technology is a skill most faculty must have and continually upgrade due to the advancement in educational technologies. Do you have such a course at your university and if so, what...
08 August 2015 7,087 4 View
Good building contractors appear to be hard to find for doing residential repairs. Do you have any research or evidence to show what are effective ways of finding and hiring a reliable building...
08 August 2015 7,220 4 View
I think most times we take it for granted that our students (both undergraduate and graduate levels) have acquired group skills along their educational journey in assigning group work. But,...
08 August 2015 8,366 57 View
It appears that Google has updated its Apps to be compatible with IE 11 but I am running on IE 9 and keeping getting a "browser not supported" error when I try to open to new Google Sheet/Doc. Is...
07 July 2015 6,350 2 View
Academia appears to be an ongoing stream of work (teaching, conferences, publishing, projects, committees etc.) that can become very time consuming. To this end, much of the leisure or quality...
07 July 2015 2,510 3 View
New PhD's and those who may not have gotten it need some research mentoring support on entering academia. What kind of reseearch support/mentoring did you receive on entering academia and should...
07 July 2015 7,308 0 View
Giving TVET graduate students exposure to industry thru internships is almost a norm in such higher education programmes. However, the success of these internships depend to a large extent on the...
07 July 2015 7,760 7 View
There are different evaluation models that are suitable for evaluating different topics/objects. I need to find any research done on best practice models for evaluating the use of technology in...
07 July 2015 8,878 1 View
It is not always clearly stated in articles and texts whether cross-tablulation can be used with ordinal data. Can one use cross-tabulations to examine whether there is a correlation between...
06 June 2015 5,205 3 View
I have come to realise that the common courtesies students are expected to know at the tertiary level are not so common today. It appears in our fast pace digital society, we have less...
06 June 2015 3,767 7 View
Sometimes in qualitative research, researchers take pictures or have other images to analyse. Does anyone know of good references/articles that speak to the analysis of artifacts or images in...
05 May 2015 3,102 3 View
Educators are now called upon in the last five years to integrate STEM into TVET to satisfy the demands of the job market locally, regionally, and internationally. How are they meeting this...
05 May 2015 5,781 2 View
Students are "famous" for asking for extensions to due dates on assignments and sometimes just violate the late submission policy. How are students dealt with when they violate the late submission...
05 May 2015 8,770 3 View
I have found that more and more, giving students templates for structuring assignments/tasks have become a necessity. When I don't, students submit all different variations that sometimes do not...
05 May 2015 5,082 8 View
The p value is set at .05 in most studies. What are the pros and cons of using different p-Values (p=.66 and p=.03) in a quantitative study for different items on a questionnaire?
05 May 2015 4,434 2 View
The TVET classroom should be conducive to the active and hands-on learning reflective of this field. But, there seems to be limited studies on the actual TVET classroom environment and its impact...
05 May 2015 2,655 0 View
Is there a limit on the number questionnaires that should be used for a case study and a survey study?
05 May 2015 8,614 8 View
Descriptive case studies aim to describe in detail the phenomenon being studied. But can an interpretive paradigm be included to help with such description or is this going deeper than description...
05 May 2015 1,690 5 View
Students in blended courses are required to take responsibility for their learning in keeping up with their readings and related assignments. However, do we take it for granted that higher...
05 May 2015 5,800 6 View
I found that knowing about teaching and learning theories in general is very critical when providing guidance to graduate students on their chosen theoretical frameworks, especially with the rapid...
04 April 2015 7,715 13 View
Blended learning (BL) is a preferred mode of delivery for most higher education institutions worldwide. BL allows for flexibility and convenience in programme delivery for especially adult...
04 April 2015 8,685 5 View
I am particularly interested in gaining insight into developing countries such as in the Caribbean, where ICT integration into the school curriculum is at varying levels of implementation.
03 March 2015 1,051 7 View
Dear RG Colleagues: I invite your interest on this new text from a senior colleague at my University that fills a gap in the literature on "Health Communication: Principles and Practices."...
01 January 1970 9,956 4 View
Dear RG Friends: Are you monitored for the number non-academic activities (e.g., farewells and holiday get-togethers) in which you participate in your faculty or department? Do you feel that these...
01 January 1970 4,273 10 View
Our work environments have become more competitive as there are more opportunities for advancement with the move away from specialization toward interdisciplinary teams for allowing different...
01 January 1970 2,893 23 View
