Simone C. O. Conceição

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Intelligent learning management systems (ILMS) are transforming education by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. These systems automate administrative tasks, offer personalized learning experiences, and boost student engagement. This article explores the benefits and challenges of ILMS, highlighting how AI can predict lea...

This article explores the evolving role of technology in nonformal and informal adult learning settings, guided by the theory of connectivism. It examines how digital platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), and other technological advancements enhance the accessibility, personalization, and efficiency of adult learning. The various educational tec...

Online learning requires intentional design of learner experiences. As we use Learning Management Systems (LMS) to design instruction, there is a need for awareness of what operates behind the LMS platform. Algorithms, coded within the LMS, are used to create personalized experiences, answer common questions, and provide immediate feedback. Algorit...

This editorial provides an annual review of eLearn Magazine including a high number of published articles, the addition of new topic series, increased partnerships, and an effective editorial board strategic plan.

O uso da tecnologia na área da saúde tem crescido cada vez mais. Os dispositivos móveis possibilitam que as pessoas aprendam em qualquer lugar e a qualquer tempo. OBJETIVO: investigar a satisfação do usuário quanto ao uso de hipermídias para a aprendizagem de educação em saúde por meio de dispositivo móvel. MÉTODO: contou com 4 partes. Na primeira,...

The lack of understanding about the process by which individuals subjectively experience remote work in virtual teams led to a phenomenological study drawing data from 10 interviews with telecommuters, who worked remotely more than 80% of the time. Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews, study findings contribute to the literature on Virtual Hu...

Social emotional learning (SEL) has shown significant positive effect on self-management and self-awareness; however, teachers have been skeptical of implementation due to the amount of extra time and resources. This article presents a case study of how a school district implemented SEL using the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Le...

The highlight of this past year was new community initiatives. In this annual review of the magazine, the Editor in Chief details her accomplishments and goals.

During global COVID-19 outbreak, universities in many countries were closed, and students experienced the exclusive online learning as never before. This study aimed to examine the mediating role of Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) in the effects of university students’ technostress caused by remote learning on three dimensions of learning burnout,...

The online instructor plays a prominent role in influencing how students respond to an online course, from designing the course structure, course activities, and assignments to encouraging interaction. Therefore, to develop effective online courses, instructors need robust feedback on their design strategies. Student evaluation of teaching (SET) fu...

In 2020-2021, elearning became essential at all levels of education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This editorial provides a year in review for eLearn Magazine. A common theme was the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in online education and opportunities for overcoming these challenges.

Este estudo objetiva compreender a percepção do cuidador, responsável (normalmente um familiar) e pessoa com cuidados especiais no processo de aprendizagem autodirecionada num contexto não-formal utilizando hipermídias para dispositivo móvel. A pesquisa é do tipo aplicada, explicativa, quali-quantitativa e com delineamento experimental. A análise d...

This article reviews the strategies discussed in this special issue using the framing of knowledge synergies for effective online facilitation. Guidance and resources for continuous professional improvement through self and peer assessment, creating spaces for professional learning, and managing workload are explored.

Designing and facilitating online learning experiences require a repertoire of skills and a unique mindset. This article focuses on adult learners’ characteristics, learner‐centered principles, and tools for engaging learning in the online environment as a starting point for acquiring these skills.

In the past three years, eLearn Magazine has reached several milestones placing the publication at the intersection of elearning research and practice. This editorial provides an overview of these accomplishments and a plan for the next three years.

A key challenge for international students in the United States is a readiness to study and live in a culture that is vastly different from their own. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of the lived experiences of Brazilian students studying in the United States 6 months after returning home. Thirty-three Brazilian students re...

Doctoral education demands significant time, energy, financial, and emotional commitments. Depending on the characteristics of the doctoral student, barriers to completion and challenges with the doctoral process can require unique types of support. The purpose of this article is to examine perspectives expressed in the literature of varied discipl...

eLearn Magazine had a successful year with an increase in the number of published articles, establishment of a new online system for managing the submission and peer review process, publication of two special issues, and a new partnership.

eLearn Magazine entered a new period in July 2017. The success of the magazine over this past year has been a team effort. The ultimate goal for this past year was to push the boundaries of eLearning and technology and explore innovations to further the conversation around strategies in eLearning.

Researchers in a variety of disciplines pursue creative ways to explore complex areas of inquiry. This literature review examines the use of concept maps as a unique tool for conducting research. This study embraces an inclusive definition of concept mapping. Three main approaches for conducting research using concept maps as a tool emerged: relati...

Design thinking has proven to be an effective methodology to create impactful learning experiences. Centered on the learner, this methodology is based on collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication to solve complex educational problems in a thoughtful and fun way. Based on design thinking, this presentation will focus on strateg...

eLearn Magazine is entering a new period and exciting changes lie ahead.

This study explored the impact of transactional distance dialogic interactions on student satisfaction in an international blended learning master’s degree program. The program examined was collaboratively delivered by three European universities to a cohort of students residing on several different continents. Students reported experiencing transa...

This chapter focuses on the role adult educators can play in assisting Black men to overcome the challenges faced in accessing and using digital technology and acquiring appropriate skills in a digital society.

This chapter addresses the transitions and changes occurring because of technological innovation, how these changes are affecting the workplace, and the skills needed to thrive today. It also presents generational characteristics of adult learners and strategies for adult educators and higher education institutions for effectively dealing with adul...

As online education becomes wide spread among institutions of higher education in the U.S., student support services are often overlooked. This paper presents a study that investigated support strategies perceived as important by online students in higher education in the U.S. Data were collected by surveying 439 students. Using purposeful sampling...

An understanding of learning theories can help adult educators become more effective practitioners and meet the needs of the learners they serve. Adult educators who understand how individuals learn can be better prepared to use effective strategies during the learning process. This article addresses the use of concept maps as a strategy to engage...

PURPOSE: This study examined the impact of caring for children with medical complexity (CMC) and high resource use on family quality of life (QoL). METHODS: Families of CMC enrolled in a complex care program completed the PedsQL Family Impact module (PedsQL FIM) and Healthcare Satisfaction module (PedsQL HCS) at enrollment then 1 and 2 years after...

This article describes an initiative to train lay people, predominantly parents of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN), to teach Bridge to Independence—a care coordination curriculum—to other family caregivers of CYSHCN. Using a model based on Kirkpatrick and Kirkpatrick’s levels of evaluation, the goal was to discover how we...

A variety of instructional design models provide pathways for developing courses using different philosophical approaches. However, many design models tend to focus more on the teaching than on the learning portion of the process. Roderick Sims, in his book "Design Alchemy: Transforming the Way We Think About Learning and Teaching," provides an inn...

People are living and traveling to places all over the world. An exploration of how this movement influences learners’ worldviews has implications for adult development, identity, and learning. The purpose of this paper is to present a phenomenological study conducted in the U.S. that examined how individuals’ living or traveling experiences in dif...

This article illustrates the challenges of creating a faculty development program on technology through the presentation of experiences with one such program, the Virtual Guild. Using examples from the Virtual Guild, the authors focus on the areas of program design and faculty motivation. The discussion of program design involves selecting content...

Worldwide life expectancy has increased over the last century. In Brazil the population over 60 years was approximately 10% in 2009, and it is expected to increase to 29% in 2050. This increase in life expectancy leads us to consider strategies that can assist in maintaining the quality of life during the ageing process. One strategy that must be c...

The changes in the way our work is created, published, and disseminated have implications for our own professional development and require us to be aware of the necessary skills. In this article, I identify three important skills scholars need to have and tools to be effective, efficient, and productive scholars in the 21st century: information man...

Este estudo emprega análise de conteúdo para obter uma compreensão aprofundada de interações em grupos de redes sociais on-line. Resultados indicam que o espaço social online pode criar e manter laços sociais e culturais entre os membros de uma comunidade informal. Identidade social é reconhecida através de mensagens de apresentações, compartilhame...

This chapter describes a collaborative design model for developing curriculum for family caregivers of children with special health care needs. The curriculum focuses on access to information and seamless care for children, with the ultimate goal of fostering family independence.

Given that Latinas/os make up the fastest-growing population group in the U.S., according to the 2000 U.S. Census, classroom teachers increasingly are in need of meaningful resources and learning strategies for students of Latin American heritage. These same resources can also serve to help internationalize/diversify classrooms serving non-Latino s...

The purpose of this integrative literature review is to summarize research on concept mapping and to offer ideas on how concept mapping can facilitate practice, research, and theory development within human resource development. In this review, more than 300 articles, written in both English and Spanish, presented at two different concept mapping c...

Non-content related forums in online learning environments are often used for logistical purposes and they involve student-student and student-instructor interactions. In this paper, we address non-content related forums as influencers of social presence in the online learning environment. This study examined a variety of logistical-type of forums...

Due to recent changes in the workplace, the workforce and higher education have driven academic programs of adult education (AE) and human resource development (HRD) in the U.S. to become more integrated as part of the mission of institutions of higher education. In this exploratory study, existing graduate programs in AE and HRD in the U.S. were i...

This chapter describes a study that used the community of learning and inquiry and concept maps as strategies to facilitate individual construction of knowledge in an asynchronous online course. Six factors influenced the concept map creation, which in turn affected individual construction of knowledge: Group characteristics, social presence, cogni...

The use of learning objects, such as videos, interactive games, and tutorials, has become increasingly popular in online vocational education. Used to reinforce concepts, to allow students to review subject matter, and to help students become more adept at procedural tasks, learning objects can enhance learning in online environments. This chapter...

This paper explores how experiential learning activities can be incorporated in leisure and enrichment travel education. It presents a description of the process used in designing and implementing nonformal experiential learning activities for an educational travel program to Brazil based on the trip leader's reflections. Trip activities are analyz...

Concept maps have been used in nursing education as a method for students to organize and analyze data. This article describes an online course that used concept maps and self-reflective journals to assess students' thinking processes. The self-reflective journals of 21 students collected over two semesters were qualitatively examined. Three major...

This chapter provides guidelines for understanding the online environment and the use of online teaching strategies.

This chapter summarizes and synthesizes the major emphases from the previous chapters, examining their practical implications in online education and suggesting future directions for the practice of adult and continuing education.

The processes used when developing a survey instrument for research studies are equally as important when developing a survey for evaluation purposes. This paper presents the steps involved in the development and validation of a survey instrument that can be used to evaluate online training modules or instructional aids in both workplace and educat...

Little consideration has been given to involving the deaf community in higher education teaching and learning as it relates to the use of instructional technology. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was mindful of this need and collaborated with Instructional Communications Systems, University of Wisconsin-Extension to work with instructors in t...

Little consideration has been given to involving the deaf community in higher education teaching and learning as it relates to the use of instructional technology. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was mindful of this need and collaborated with Instructional Communications Systems, University of Wisconsin-Extension to work with instructors in t...

This phenomenological study investigated the meaning of the online teaching experience of college faculty when there was an absence of physical presence. Findings show that the online experience brings new dimensions to the teaching practice when there is an absence of physical presence: (a) The length and depth of engagement during the delivery of...

This article describes the use of a schematic model for developing and distributing online surveys. Two empirical studies that developed and implemented online surveys to collect data to measure satisfaction in various aspects of human resource development and adult education exemplify the use of the model to conduct online survey research. The ste...

Online learning, also referred to as distance education in this article, involves a variety of approaches, such as making resources available electronically and creating rich, interactive online experiences with class activities using Web tools like chat and discussion groups. Online courses offer flexibility as they may not require learners to be...

The digital divide is leaving millions disenfranchised from the opportunity to use technology to change their lives and to participate fully in democracy, in their own communities, and in today's job market.

In this chapter, the author uses her own experiences as an adult learner in cyberspace to explore the social and cultural contexts of gender and national origin in adult learning.

Little attention has been given to involving the deaf community in distance teaching and learning or in designing courses that relate to their language and culture. This article reports on the design and development of video-based learning objects created to enhance the educational experiences of American Sign Language (ASL) hearing participants in...

Advancements in instructional technology offer an array of unprecedented opportunities and challenges for persons engaged in personnel development. This article first defines instructional technology, identifies current issues in higher education, and then identifies specific instructional designs, strategies, and media applications for persons inv...

This article illustrates the challenges of creating a faculty development program on technology through the presentation of experiences with one such program, the Virtual Guild. Using examples from the Virtual Guild, the authors focus on the areas of program design and faculty motivation. The discussion of program design involves selecting content...

Technology is rapidly expanding and changing higher education in multifaceted ways. Although the creation of new models of higher education is revolutionizing the way colleges compete for students, distance education has a long history, with correspondence courses as the earliest examples. Presently, distance learning through multimedia technology...

The processes associated with survey development and testing are critical when doing survey research. Survey development for educational program evaluation is no different. This study offers the researcher both a model for survey development as well as a valid and reliable survey instrument to measure the effectiveness, appeal, and efficiency of in...

This study investigated the use of an asynchronous online community of learning and inquiry and concept maps as strategies to facilitate individual construction of knowledge. The community of learning and inquiry proved to be an effective strategy for designing the interactive aspects of the online course and creating an environment to explore diff...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of learning objects in the CD- ROM format for the teaching of introductory American Sign Language to adult learners. A controlled experiment was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of the learning objects to enhance student learning. Findings suggest that there was no indicati...

As the use of concept maps becomes more prevalent in educational programs, instructors begin to explore ways to utilize them more effectively to facilitate student learning. However, when initially introduced to concept map tools users have not always had a positive experience because concept map strategies may require users to organize information...

As online courses become more prevalent in higher education programs, instructors begin to explore which teaching strategies are more effective to facilitate student learning based on different learning styles. One teaching strategy that is commonly employed in online courses is the use of discussion forums for the purpose of fostering learners' cr...

As online courses become more prevalent in institutions of higher education, instructors begin to explore which teaching strategies are more effective to facilitate student learning based on different learning styles. One teaching strategy that is commonly employed in online courses is the use of discussion forums for the purpose of fostering learn...

As online courses become more widespread in adult education programs, adult educators begin to explore teaching strategies that effectively facilitate student learning based on different learning styles. One teaching strategy commonly used in online courses to develop adult learners’ critical thinking skills is the discussion forum. Using online di...

Taking into consideration travel as an experiential learning activity that can lead to adult’s improved psychological well-being and increased life satisfaction; this paper describes a study of the relationship between learning styles and experiential learning in nonformal education. During a nonformal education trip, participants traveled to five...