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Freidig, Amy – Journal of Extension, 2019
The Wisconsin Master Gardener Program team used the Google+ Community platform to provide an engaging online discussion forum for asynchronous continuing education experiences. Applications of such a tool for volunteer online education have numerous benefits, including the capacity for asynchronous posting, ease of posting, privacy options, wide…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Asynchronous Communication, Continuing Education, Discussion Groups
Dittmar, Johanna; Eilks, Ingo – Education Sciences, 2019
Students today are increasingly engaged in the use of digital information and communication technologies. The Internet continues to grow and more and more young people are using it worldwide. Educational practices, however, have been slow to adapt to the corresponding developments. For example, Internet forums are generally ignored in most…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Internet, Discussion Groups, Student Attitudes
Zheng, Yafeng; Xu, Chang; Li, Yanyan; Su, You – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
Knowledge elaboration plays a critical role in promoting knowledge acquisition and facilitating the retention of target knowledge in online collaborative discussions. Adopting a key-term-based automated analysis approach, we proposed an indicator framework to measure the level of knowledge elaboration in terms of coverage, activation, and…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Knowledge Level, Academic Ability
Buckley-Marudas, Mary Frances – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2017
This inquiry into the digital discussion forums tied to two English classes in an urban public high school examines the potential of new media to honor the multicultural composition of classrooms and support teachers to design culturally sustaining pedagogies. Given the increasing significance of digital media as well as the growing diversity of…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education
Lefebvre, Sonia; Samson, Ghislain; Gareau, Alexandre; Brouillette, Nancy – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2016
The interactive whiteboard (IWB) is increasingly used for teaching and learning in the classroom. Nevertheless, the ways that teachers incorporate this tool within their teaching practices remain poorly understood. This paper examines elementary and high school teachers' self-reported practices with the IWB. The conceptual framework centers on…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Grant R. Jackson; Sarah M. Schiffecker; Oleksandra Poquet – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Nationwide, postsecondary institutions are seeing the need and searching for ways to prepare their students for life in an increasingly complex and often polarized society. Since its development in the 1980s, intergroup dialogue (IGD) has become a nationally prominent social justice pedagogy that brings together small, diverse groups of college…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Electronic Learning, Social Justice, Teaching Methods
Gerber Hornink, Gabriel; Costa, Manuel João – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2021
Learning metabolic pathways is vital for understanding biochemical processes and all of their implications for life. Their learning in the virtual environment is complex and generative learning strategies, such as the construction of online conceptual maps, can help in this process. This article presents a proposal for the collaborative…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Brainstorming
Öztok, Murat – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2016
Learning scientists and the CSCL community have argued that knowledge construction is a process of collective thinking; a process that is simultaneously personal and social that requires group cognition. However, while CSCL researchers have investigated situated knowledge in the process of collective thinking, little work has been done to fully…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Cooperative Learning, Knowledge Level
Thorne, Steven L. – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
In this article I revisit the cultures-of-use conceptual framework--that technologies, as forms and processes comprising human culture, mediate and assume variable meanings, values, and conventionalized functions for different communities (Thorne, 2003). I trace the antecedent arc of investigation and serendipitous encounters that led to the 2003…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Communication (Thought Transfer), Social Environment, Sociocultural Patterns