The purpose of this research was to discover the level of intentionality to stimulate Christian formation in the context of fully online undergraduate baccalaureate Bible education at ABHE schools. Since ABHE affirms transformational education as part of its institutional missio…
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Many studies have been conducted where a face-to-face training environment is compared to an online training environment. While some research has been conducted on the nature of online training in faith-based not-for-profit organizations, little to no research has been found on …
This dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of a customized educational health intervention on sexual health and female cancer prevention among young women in Pakistan and evaluates the applicability of the integrated model of behavior prevention (IM) when predicting three hea…
The goal of this study was to investigate the factors that may affect tutors' and students' intentions to use emerging technologies (ETs) in online tutorials. Based on a literature review, this study proposed a theoretical model predicting tutors' and students' intentions to use…
The unprecedented growth of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) networks in recent years has boosted the use of both established and new multimedia applications. In order to satisfy the diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements entailed by these applications, an efficient traffi…
This study focused on the factors that affect receptivity of online MBAs by Arab mid-level managers and whether there is enough receptiveness to online MBAs to accept along or substitute it with traditional MBAs. The growth of the Internet in the Arab world has opened up the pos…
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of undergraduate Saudi students at King Saud University in Riyadh toward utilizing online courses based on gender and geographical location. It is also to explore the advantages and disadvantages of online courses a…
Research indicates that extensive reading has been an effective approach for learning a language and therefore, more investigation in different contexts is needed. One major requirement for the success of the extensive reading approach is the availability of large amounts of mat…
The development and spread of Internet technology has been implicated in a variety of economic, political and social transformations. The most important of these include the rise of the global economy, the decline of the welfare state, and the proliferation of identity-based, as…
A This dissertation analyzes the experiences of high school students participating in an on-line character-playing simulation of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (“AIC”). In AIC, high school students in classrooms around the world play the characters of leaders of nations involved in t…
The majority of previous research investigating the role of vision in controlling adaptive gait has predominantly focused on over-ground walking or obstacle negotiation. Thus there is a paucity of literature investigating visuomotor control of step descent. This thesis addressed…
Background & Aims: Studies estimate that over 500 live Pro-Ana websites are in existence (Hansen, 2008). Broadly speaking they advocate that eating 'disorders'' are a 'life-style' choice rather than a mental health problem requiring treatment (Bardone‐Cone & Cass, 2007). To date…
This thesis investigates the relationship between identity and discourse in a networked collaborative environment in order to explore the following question: <br /> Is the construction of a common identity taking place? <br /><br /> The research question draws on the socio-cultu…
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 programs. Using a dominant qualitativ…
The last few years have seen a flood of courses on the Internet in higher education. This increase has seen institutional stakeholders wrestle with decisions about committing funds, faculty, staff, and other resources to this new educational forum, in the midst of uncertainties …
This qualitative phenomenological study explored the perceptions of twenty students enrolled in courses at the Virtual University of Pakistan. The Virtual University of Pakistan was chosen for this study because it is a unique institution in third-world country in South Asia, of…
This study provided insights about how to develop online cross-cultural projects designed to foster global awareness in upper elementary-age students. Three schools, located in the southern United States, Mexico and Turkey, implemented a cross-cultural model as part of a compara…
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between students' level of effort and their perceptions about the online portion of a college course taught in blended learning format. Web-based learning has been around for about two decades and has already been implemen…
The purpose of this study was to understand the effect of engaging preservice teachers in an online learning community (OLC) on their sense of community, technological proficiency, and attitude toward online learning. The web-based learning community was developed in two undergr…