Moving Beyond Lecture Notes and Discussions: Instructional Strategies for Online Learning

Susan Colaric; Laura Hummell; Micheal Stiles; Greg Robison

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 1149–1154

As faculty begin to offer online courses, or supplement traditional courses with online components, they may not be aware of instructional strategies that would be appropriate for online instruction. Current literature addresses this problem by...

Topics: Faculty, Teaching Methods, Middle School Education

Synectics for Creative Thinking in Technology Education

Laura Hummell

Technology Teacher Vol. 66, No. 3 (November 2006) pp. 22–27

Synectics is a creative problem-solving process developed by William J. J. Gordon and George Prince in the 1960s (Gordon, 1961). A result of Gordon and Prince observing brainstorming sessions that achieved varying levels of success, Synectics...

Incorporating Animation Concepts and Principles in STEM Education

Henry L. Harrison; Laura J. Hummell

Technology Teacher Vol. 69, No. 8 (2010) pp. 20–25

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of static images that creates the illusion of movement. This optical illusion is often called perception of motion, persistence of vision, illusion of motion, or short-range apparent motion. The...

Distance education leaders' perspectives: A study of how select higher education institutions implement and lead online distance education programs

Laura Johnson Hummell

Distance@education leaders' perspectives: A study of how select higher education institutions implement and lead online distance education programs (2008) pp. 1–165

The purpose of this research was to study the perspectives, characteristics, and experiences of ten distance education leaders at four-year, not-for-profit, degree-granting higher education institutions implementing online distance education...