- Project 1: USQ Internal Research Grant Project ($16
700)
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- Title: The development, validation and use of
a Distance and Open Learning Environment Scale (DOLES)
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- Summary: The project has developed and is currently
trailing for validation purposes a three-section, and eight-factor draft
instrument with a cross section of distance education students sampled
from two Australian universities. it is hoped that a instrument will emerge
for measuring the social, psychological and resource climate integral to
learning and teaching through non-contiguous means within higher education.
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- Project 2 :USQ Research Infrastructure & Group Project
($25 000)
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- Title: The development of instructional design
and technology guidelines based on the constructivist paradigm.
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- Summary: This project searches for guidelines
for the development and teaching of content (especially through the distance
and open learning mode) based on the emerging paradigm of constructivism.
It has conducted an extensive online discussion on several aspects of the
issue and consulted very widely with experts in instructional design, distance
and open education, and constructivism. Focus group interviews and the
administration of instruments to gather data from academics, instructional
designers and students to confirm results from the online discussion are
being undertaken.
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- Project 3: USQ Continuous Improvement Initiatives
Project ($6 000)
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- Title: The design, development, and evaluation
of an Online External
Unit Evaluation for USQ Distance Education
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- Summary: The project is developing and pilot testing
a prototype of an electronic version of the USQ External Unit Evaluation
Form. It is expected that when completed the prototype will suit various
technological modes avalaible to students (e.g. Email, file TRasfer protocol,
Gopher suystem, and the World Wide Web). Data will be collatted electronically
to a data base and transfered in to a statisitcal analysis package.
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- Project 4 : Committee for the Advancement of University Teaching
Project ($45 000)
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Title: Distant Peer Tutoring: Using Computer mediated
Communications (CMC) to facilitate the teaching and learning of a Law Unit
by the Distance mode.
Summary: This project is developing and testing
the efficacy of an Oncampus-Offcampus Peer Tutoring Electronic Network
Model (OPTEN) in the enhancement of teaching and learning using groups
of dyads of USQ students who study through the distance and face to face
modes.
- The Model:
