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Hagit Meishar-Tal – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
This paper critically analyzes the potential impact of ChatGPT, a creative artificial intelligence tool, on learning and teaching, focusing on its impact on using writing assignments as a means of assessing knowledge. The paper examines the challenges this tool presents to learners and teachers in various aspects, including writing as a means of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology, Barriers, Writing (Composition)
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Bruce Parsons; John H. Curry – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
This article investigates an artificial intelligence language model, ChatGPT, and its ability to complete graduate-level instructional design assignments. The approach subjected ChatGPT to a needs, task, and learner analysis for a 12th-grade media literacy module and benchmarked its performance by expert evaluation and measurements via grading…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Design
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Lazarevic, Bojan; Fuller, Julia; Cain, Jabari – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
This study explores the relationship between the three elements of the Community of Inquiry (teaching, social, and cognitive presences) and video-based instruction in the online environment. The video-based instruction included instructor-created videos and screencasts, video feedback assignment critiques, video-enhanced content discussions, and…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Video Technology, Online Courses
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Farmer, E. Christa; Catalano, Amy J.; Halpern, Adam J. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
In a Fall 2017 introductory course in Environmental Geology, homework assignments alternated between traditional textbook chapters in an electronic format and adaptive learning platform (ALP) modules on the Smart Sparrow (www.smartsparrow.com) platform to assess student preference for and satisfaction with either modality. Few studies have…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Textbooks, Electronic Publishing
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Miller, Alyssia M.; Morgan, William Justin; Koronkiewicz, Bryan – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
Social media has become a daily activity in today's technological age, and with this development, educators are met with another possible tool to facilitate language learning. This study was conducted to examine the use of social media, in particular Facebook and Twitter, as a pedagogical instrument in beginning level Spanish courses. Two…
Descriptors: Social Media, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Introductory Courses
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Hornik, Steven; deNoyelles, Aimee; Chen, Baiyun – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
The purpose of the study is to explore the use of a mobile application called Flipboard, which facilitates the curation of digital content into a magazine-like product, to engage students in class discussion and participation in a college course. Research questions include: (1) What were students' beliefs and attitudes regarding the use of…
Descriptors: College Students, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Machajewski, Szymon; Steffen, Alana; Romero Fuerte, Elizabeth; Rivera, Eleanor – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
Technology in Higher Education affects teaching and learning excellence while being a significant expense for universities. There is a need for evaluation of current instructional technology use when planning for renewal or adoption of a new learning management system (LMS). This study was conducted to understand the patterns of course tools used…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Educational Technology, Enrollment Trends, College Faculty