Norma I. Scagnoli

• Ph.D. Human Resource Education
• Vice Provost for Learning Innovations at Illinois Institute of Technology

How does an online graduate business program become the fastest growing program in a short span of 5 years, in a category that has been showing constant decline in the last decade? This article takes a retrospective look at the journey from conception to launch and early implementation of an innovative online program at a large public university ab...

Goal: To present an analysis of production and common uses of educational video in online higher education courses. Method: This research followed a qualitative inquiry approach, and data came from three sources: secondary data from communication logs during faculty training; analysis of 320 videos in business education and their course designs, an...

This paper presents the results of a study that explored undergraduate students’ perceptions of cognitive, social, and teaching presences in online business courses and their relationship to students’ course satisfaction in addition to demographic variables. Student engagement has proven to be one of the main reasons for student retention and satis...

“Abriendo Caminos Hacia Prácticas Educativas Innovadoras” es una invitación a los docentes de diferentes niveles educativos a repensar su práctica, a partir de la implementación de estrategias para generar aprendizajes significativos y transformar la educación para satisfacer las necesidades del estudiante en la actualidad. Cada uno de los capítu...

Video lectures (VL), considered an effective means for delivering course content and infusing teaching presence in the virtual environment, have become very popular in education. The purpose of this study was to investigate online student experiences with VL focusing on their opinion of usefulness of VL, their satisfaction with them and their perce...

Research indicates that visual displays in qualitative research are under-utilized and under-developed. This study aimed to reach a clearer understanding of this fact by learning from the perspective of seven editors in qualitative journals. Using a qualitative descriptive design this study explored what constitutes an appropriate and helpful use o...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) became popular for people looking for advancement, for professional development, or for opportunities for new learning. MOOCs were not initially seen as a possible venue for degree seeking students. By 2013 only one program had considered using MOOCs as a platform, the Computer Science Masters’ degree in Georgia...

Video presentations, also referred to as mini-lectures, micro-lectures, or simply video lectures, are becoming more prominent among the strategies used in hybrid or fully online teaching. Either interested in imitating a Khan Academy style of presenting content or responding to other pedagogical or administrative needs, there are more instructors n...

The insertion of mobile technology in educational settings is becoming more prevalent, making it important to understand the effectiveness of such technology in enhancing students' learning and engagement. This article is based on research conducted to study the effects of the use of mobile technology - specifically iPads - by students in a graduat...

This study explores the use and implementation of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) software in graduate professional education. The investigation looked into self-reported information on graduate students' use of ESL (English as a Second Language) software to improve language skills and their competencies in professional English communica...

Visual displays help in the presentation of inferences and conclusions and represent ways of organizing, summarizing, simplifying, or transforming data. Data displays such as matrices and networks are often utilized to enhance data analysis and are more commonly seen in quantitative than in qualitative studies. This study reviewed the data displays...

Diseño de cursos que incorporan el modelo de aprendizaje electrónico mixto (blended learning). In Fainholc, B., Aprendizaje electrónico mixto.: El blended learning como propuesta educativa de síntesis creativa para la educación superior. Madrid: Editorial Académica Española Los docentes cada vez avanzan mas en este proceso de integración de TICs en...

Blended learning is the intentional combination of pedagogical strategies that include a diversity of media, online and face-to-face teaching techniques, targeting an enhanced teaching and learning process. This chapter focuses on the design of blended learning courses, the alternative pedagogical strategies that can be used in either formats to fu...

En este libro de texto se desarrollan aspectos teóricos y prácticos relacionados al uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en el quehacer docente. La obra resulta de utilidad para alumnos y docentes en asignaturas que incluyen los medios y las tecnologías en su currícula. Está destinada especialmente a los estudiantes de las car...

The last decade has seen a great variety in the ways in which instructors have incorporated the World Wide Web into their traditional classroom courses; however, this combination has not always translated into changes or improvements in teaching and learning. The real challenge has proved to be not the addition of web resources to the traditional c...

A Review of Online Learning and its Evolution in Latin America NORMA SCAGNOLI, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA pages 555-565 http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2009.7.5.555 The integration of some form of online learning in higher education and its adoption in distance and continuing education has increased exponentially in the last de...

The integration of online technologies in educational practice is rendering new opportunities for teaching and learning. It is known that instructors who have taught fully online courses have acquired new skills and have had the opportunity to implement novel pedagogical practices in the online environment. However, it is unclear whether direct exp...

Online distance education programs are populated by adult learners who try to continue or complete their education without having to leave their jobs or places of residence. Their work environment becomes not just their working place, but also the lab where they apply new knowledge. The general expectation is that after graduation they will make an...

Online distance education programs are populated by adult learners who try to continue or complete their education without having to leave their jobs or places of residence. Their work environment becomes not just their working place, but also the labs where they apply new knowledge. The general expectation is that after graduation they will make a...

This paper consists in the descriptive analysis of a pedagogic experience carried out using a blended learning model in the College of Engineering (Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Económico-Sociales) at the Universidad Nacional de San Luis, at the beginning of 2007. It was a postgraduate course called: “Educación Superior en el Nuevo Milenio. Cóm...

Objectives • To present the blended learning initiative as a technological innovation introduced in the Universidad de La Plata, Argentina, with the CTER of Illinois University. • To describe the process that led through the design and implementation of this 3-year project via online mediated communication between the people involved. • To discuss...

Resumen En este trabajo de investigación se presenta la evaluación de una experiencia de in-corporación de un sistema de gestión de aprendizajes (sga) en un curso de orientación universitaria y la discusión de sus implicancias. La versión en línea de este curso fue diseñada por el Departamento de Matemáticas de la facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Nat...

This research work presents the evaluation of incorporating a Learning Management System (sga in Spanish) into a university vocational course and discussing its related issues. The online version of this course was designed by the Mathematics Department in the Natural and Exact Sciences Faculty of La Pampa National University (unlPam), and was used...

This paper presents the results of a research study that focused on approaches to blended learning strategies in graduate courses, and the faculty and students’ perceptions of the innovation. The presentation focuses on what blended learning means to teaching English as a second language at the college level. Results show that blended learning is n...

El concepto de aprendizaje colaborativo o cooperativo ha sido objeto de investigación y estudio en los últimos anos con la aparición y crecimiento de e-learning. El término “aprendizaje colaborativo” hace referencia a metodologías de trabajo en equipo que impulsan al grupo a cooperar hacia el logro de un mismo objetivo. El trabajo en equipo no es n...

Abstract En este trabajo se discute un modelo para la incorporaciónde tecnologías en educación superior. Este modelo surge a partir de un proyecto de investigaciónque está siendo desarrollado en conjunto por investigadores de la Universidad Nacional de La Pampa (Argentina) y de la Universidad de Illinois (USA). La colaboración interdisciplinaria de...

The use of the Internet has produced a great transformation on people’s lives and on the way that people do things. And although the changes brought about by the use of the Internet have not transformed campus teaching and learning at the same speed as they have transformed everyday life, there is no doubt that it is gradually producing an impact i...

The concepts “collaborative” or “cooperative learning” have been object of e-learning related research in the last few years. These terms refer to working in collaboration with others to achieve a common goal. Team work is not new in education, but what is new is how new technologies of information and communication facilitate and encourage the eme...

Feedback is a key element in online programs. It keeps alive the flow of communication between the members of the virtual community, and it helps to improve the effectiveness of the program. In this study, we look into the sources for feedback and how they are used in an online master’s program. We present an analysis of feedback at three different...

http://www.uaa.mx/direcciones/difusion/publicaciones/vertiente.html. This articles expands on the issues that faculty and institutions face when moving a class or a program from face to face to online teaching. A continuum from face to face to online learning is presented as a conclusion of the article. published or submitted for publication not pe...

This article presents a qualitative research analysis that focus on strenghts, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of the use of the Internet in face-to-face teaching. unpublished not peer reviewed

The practice of organizational development (OD) increasingly relies on the use of the Internet to create successful interventions. The Internet can be useful in four types of OD interventions: human processes, technostructural/social, human resource management, and strategic published or submitted for publication is peer reviewed

This presentation introduces the strategies followed to organize, design, develop, deliver and evaluate the orientation program. The study includes design considerations, explanation of the objectives, details in the development and implementation, and features of the evaluation. unpublished not peer reviewed

Traditionally, higher education institutions have developed orientation programs that are designed to help students make a successful transition to college. Now, considering this flow of virtual students, universities offering distance learning programs have to design orientation programs suited for the students that will take distance courses. Thi...

This article describes the virtual spaces used for education, known as virtual classrooms. The article does one advocate or describe a particular online system but talks in general about the uses of virtual classrooms in distance and on campus education, and details the elements that make up those virtual spaces. The article talks to an audience of...

This text was created as handout to complement a workshop called Evaluation of Web Resources. It has been downloaded or requested by educators after the workshop so since 2001 it has been distributed as stand-alone publication on the web unpublished not peer reviewed