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Record W1556808468

Blended Learning Through Videoconferencing

2007· dissertation· en· W1556808468 on OpenAlexaff
David Hinger

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen ULeth Scholarship (OPUS) (University of Lethbridge) · 2007
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicOnline and Blended Learning
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVideoconferencingBlended learningComputer scienceMultimediaPsychologyMathematics educationEducational technology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Educators are frequently looking for new ways to expand distance education opportunities to students in rural and remote locations. Videoconferencing is rapidly growing as a premier tool to minimize distance barriers and increase opportunities for continuing education. For more than a decade the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge has offered blended learning courses through a cohort implementation strategy. While creating a cohort of students in one location facilitates the face-to-face component of the blended learning environment by allowing instructors to conduct classes occasionally during the semester by traveling to the remote location, the cost of travel for face-to-face visits to many rural and remote school districts, such as Peace River, adds another barrier to establishing life long learning opportunities. In an effort to increase access throughout the province to graduate level programming the Faculty of Education is investigating the use ofvideoconferencing to replace some of the face-to-face site visits. In January 2005, the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge enrolled a cohort of students from the Peace River School District in the University's ftrst graduate level videoconferencing blended learning environment. These instructors, administrators, and students were the participants in this multi-methodological study to evaluate student and instructor perceptions of using videoconferencing in a blended learning environment, and establish best practices for future course offerings.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.084

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0250.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.050
GPT teacher head0.368
Teacher spread0.318 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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