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Ayeshah Syed; David Yoong; Nor Mohd Nazari – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
In some studies, participants are assigned ethnographic or communicative tasks, such as field-work observation, life-story interviews, and photography. These studies usually involve in-person interaction, both for the participants doing the task and for the researchers in engaging with participants throughout the research process. Our study was…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Dentistry, Graduate Students, Empathy
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Lowenthal, Patrick R.; Dunlap, Joanna C. – Distance Education, 2018
Social presence is a popular construct used to describe how people socially interact in online courses. Online educators continue to try different ways to establish and maintain social presence in online courses. However, research to date has not identified which strategies, or types of strategies, are best for establishing social presence. We…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication
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Owens, Marissa; Nussbaum, E. Michael – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2017
This study aimed to: 1) evaluate Twitter as a viable tool for promoting collaborative argumentation; 2) determine if scripting through sentence openers promotes a greater number of arguments within an online discussion; and 3) compare Twitter to Facebook as viable tools for promoting collaborative argumentation. Participants were 27 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse, Sentences
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Pitt, Adele; Oprescu, Florin; Tapia, Geraldine; Gray, Marion – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Studying at university can be a very stressful experience. Although the literature provides some information regarding different sources of stress among students, studies have not addressed the issue of changes over the course progression. This study aimed to obtain a deeper understanding of the sources of stress for first-year students and…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Mixed Methods Research, Longitudinal Studies, Focus Groups
Weeden, Elissa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A mainstream course has several components that deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students must reconcile. In class, components can include the instructor, projection display, whiteboard, interpreting, and real-time captioning. Outside the classroom, components can include materials from the instructor, notes generated by a note-taker, and a lecture…
Descriptors: Teleconferencing, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Inclusion
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Rowe, Nicholas – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2018
Conferences are generally felt to facilitate knowledge exchange and interactions between delegates, and to support formative higher education and continued professional education. However, the motivations and needs of conference delegates are sparsely researched and subjective in nature. This paper presents a mixed method analysis of the needs and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Mixed Methods Research, Science Education, Interviews
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MacLeod, Jason; Yang, Harrison Hao; Xiang, Zongping – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
Research has identified the need for additional teaching strategies to address issues within intercultural computer-supported collaborative learning (iCSCL) environments. While some strategies have been proposed to support teacher effectiveness and student participation, to date no research has traced issues back to students' underlying, intrinsic…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication
Mills, Jodi Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Most research on Cognitive Load Theory (Sweller, 1988) has uncovered many instructional design considerations for learning complex tasks. Additionally, the Community of Inquiry (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000) framework describes many of the learning experiences in online education. A gap existed in the literature for investigating…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Algebra
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Hayward, Charles N.; Laursen, Sandra L. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2018
Background: Studies continually show benefits of active learning in college classrooms, yet it is difficult to get faculty to adopt these methods. Particularly challenging is the final step of the instructional change process, "refreezing," when after making initial changes in instructional methods, instructors decide whether to continue…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Mathematics Instruction, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods
Palacio, May Antonette; Gustilo, Leah – Online Submission, 2016
As the English language continues to evolve through time, many of its structures and functions changed, which made it even realizable that the smallest unit in a discourse can play a crucial role in communication. Hence, this present study is an attempt to investigate the phenomenon and further delve into the discourse-pragmatic functions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Modes
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Soengas-Pérez, Xosé; Assif, Mohamed – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2017
This research analyses the contribution of cyberactivism to the political and social change in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, as well as the opinion of young Arabs on the present context. Meaningful information has been extracted from regular interviews to 30 undergraduates over a five-year period. These students had already participated in the process…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Activism, Social Change
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Alenazi, Ali A. – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This study investigated the extent to which pre-service teachers can utilize WhatsApp Messenger to create an effective learning platform without instructor interference. Twenty-six male pre-service teachers created a WhatsApp group and interacted through it independently for nine weeks. Each pre-service teacher was required to share a minimum of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Media
Basso, Jeremy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research study examines the dynamics of student-to-student interpersonal mediated communication motives within asynchronous discussion forums. The objective is to determine the interpersonal mediated communication motives and communicator style of students enrolled in fully asynchronous community college courses with the intention to…
Descriptors: College Students, Peer Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Dyment, Janet E.; Downing, Jill – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
This paper draws on the work of Helen Timperley (2015) who suggests there are six clear enablers that support educators to have professional conversations: processes, resources, culture, knowledge, relationships, as well as context. This purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, it describes how weekly web conferences that were offered for online…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication
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Chadha, Anita – Journal of Educators Online, 2017
Fostering reflective deliberation in the online classroom ensures that students reach a high level of achievement in virtual courses. Student peer exchanges were evaluated on a collaborative web site structured around interactive weekly discussions offered across an online, face-to-face, and upper- and lower-division political science courses.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Teaching Methods, Reflection
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