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Online learning in higher education institutions has become a boom in the last years. It is a tool for non traditional students juggling with several responsibilities wanting to pursue an education with time flexibility. More students are enrolling in online courses and universities are looking for ways to engage students in an online environment. However, the current online platform seems to have several issues. For instance, communication between students and professors is often lost in online learning. Yet, universities are pushing online courses more and more in order to teach more students using less resources.
The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to go in depth and analyze what online learning is and ways it needs to be improved. The several academic journals used in this bibliography show different perspectives and studies revolving around online learning. It incorporates studies from several universities on how students perceive online learning as well as a professor’s point of view of …show more content…

What can a professor do in order to engage communication with students? What things need to be improve with the current online platform? These questions are important because they related to the main problematic question: how to change the way online courses are taught? The research was conducted over several days throughout the end of May 2017 and the beginning of June 2017. The research mainly includes articles found in several academic journals that conducted studies on online learning. Subsequently, this research has helped me understand different perspectives regarding online learning. Authors mentioned in this bibliography discuss different problems encountered in online learning as well as proposals on how to solve the problems. Likewise, most authors portray a negative outlook on how online courses are being

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Lazaros, E.J. (2016). 21st Century skills: social and cultural police and detectives. Children’s Technology & Engineering, 20(3), 7-9. Retrieved from https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-3972498271/21st-century-skills-social-and-cultural-police-and

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References ATD | The World's Largest Talent Development Association. (n.d.). Retrieved September 27, 2015, from https://www.td.org The Association for Talent Development (ASTD) is a professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees in organizations around the world. They support the talent development profession by providing trusted content in the form of research, books, webcasts, events, and education programs.

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Benett, Yves. " How Social Science Research Methods Might Provide Scientific Evidence For The Existence Of God. " Christian Higher Education 10.2 (2011): 132-139. Academic Search Complete.

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It is a great learning avenue, and continuing to improve the experience will greatly help those who utilize it. Marci Malcom suggests that, “with the growth and expectation that every student have access to online learning opportunities and the available attrition statistics, it is important to understand what contributes to student success in online learning.” (14) Research

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In this peered reviewed article, Blake and Goodman strategies to teach nursing students’ computer games that are interesting and will have a positive outcome. In a classroom, setting different computer games are used depending on the amount of students’ and group sizes. The games reduce anxiety, assist the student in retaining the information, increase class participation and assist in the ability to use the computers. This article also explains the various games played, and how to play the games. While assessing the weakness of the games, introduction to the games will be determined to the classroom by the time allotted to each class.

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Shaffer, D. W., & Gee, J. P. (2005). Before every child is left behind: How epistemic games can solve the coming crisis in education (WCER Working Paper No. 2005-7). Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin Center for Education Research. This article explores how students of today are being prepared to do “commodity work” when jobs of the future are looking for people skills of “innovative work” and how this is affecting our workforce, government, and future technology. It discusses the idea of schools preparing kids to work in traditional type of fields like manufacturing or large corporation work, yet we need to be teaching knowledge about innovative design and technology.

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In a similar vein, an article titled “Experiencing Research Firsthand: The ‘unClassroom’ Experiential Learning Approach to Teaching Research Methods in an LIS Master's Program” describes how LIS master’s students learned important research methods through participating in research projects for outside clients (Mandel, 2017). The authors of “Opportunities and Challenges for Students in an Online Seminar-Style Course in LIS Education: A Qualitative Case Study,” an article in the Fall 2016 issue of JELIS, examined at how class dialogue and discussion is affected when it takes place in an online environment instead of in a face-to-face classroom setting (Farooq & Matteson, 2016). While the articles in JELIS address many aspects of information literacy, they do so largely within the scope of higher education or professional

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In the option essay of “The Trouble with Online Education” Mark Edmundson started with question about what people are thinking that the lawyers learn from their clients and the patient's teaches the doctor about the medicine. He also talk about how the teacher are also need to learn from the students and how they can improve their teaching so it would be best fit for all the students in the classroom. He talk about how a president was dismissed because she was not moving forward fast enough on the internet learning. He gave himself and his student as an example of how the teacher should learned from the students and at the same time the students also learn from the teacher. Edmundson also compare the online teacher to a school teacher.

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Online learning requires adjustments to be made by instructors and students for successful interaction to occur. Online courses often define classroom interaction by having discussion boards, synchronous chat, electronic bulletin boards, and emails. Statistics show that, “67% of college instructors believe video, blogs, podcasts, and other online media are necessary teaching tools” (University of the Potomac n.d.), whether courses are being taught online or through traditional methods. Though, effectiveness of such interactive venues are not without

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In the name of god Islamic Azad University Faculty of Humanities English Language Department Qeshm Islamic Azad University International Branch Teachers Beliefs of Effective Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom: A study of Nonnative EFL Teachers. M. A. Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Foreign Language By: Supervisor: Advisor: Septamber, 110, 2015 Islamic Azad University Faculty of Humanities English Language Department This is to certify that the thesis submitted by FatemehMiri entitled Teachers Beliefs of Effective Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom: A study of Nonnative EFL Teachers.

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This essay will explore the controversial topic of whether online education is better than traditional education. Online education currently has many advantages, and these are very attractive to most students. One of the most important factor to why so many students in the world is taking online courses is because of its flexibility. It is apparent that student can listen to the lectures or use the course materials anytime and anywhere, as long as they have internet connection.

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Conclusion Online education can be efficient for some students, but not for the others. It is growing and more people are more attracted to attend this method of learning. While it may be true that this type of education still has a lot to improve in terms of its technological development to the effectiveness of its teaching and learning method, many people believe that online education is an impressive method of

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However, with the introduction of the internet, learning had stepped to the higher stage of the ladder. It has advanced from human teaching to electronic online learning. So now arises the question that – What is online learning? Online learning is a

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One of the ways to choose learning system that support the convenience of student is to take online learning. The definition of online learning is learning using the online system in which students do not have to attend classes. Although, online learning provides students to have the flexibility to attend the college at time and location that suitable for them, but before students make decision

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First of all, what is online learning? Online learning is a communication between lecturer and student without physically contact. The Online learning also can save up a lot of time from the lecturer and the students. Through online learning, students can get all the info’s that lecturers provide in the class. Some classes only need online learning and not physically there.

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