School dropout is a worrisome phenomenon at Brazilian public education, whose causes comprise different aspects. The present study analyzed the school dropout from a technical course in North of Brazil in order to minimize ...

The University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC) was created in 1996 to facilitate distance delivery of programmes offered by UWI. Since 2002, UWIDEC has been incorporating the use of ICTs in the delivery ...

The study sought to evaluate the extent to which an online course in literacy leadership appropriately trained prospective literacy coaches, already situated in Caribbean schools, to assume roles as literacy leaders in ...

Over the course of one semester, 25 students enrolled in a postgraduate course in curriculum were registered as members of a virtual classroom. A discussion board was used to promote the development of a virtual learning ...

There is wide consensus that the online teaching/learning environment works best when participants conceive of themselves as belonging to and functioning within a community. This paper holds that community members must be ...