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Oviatt, Sharon L.; Cohen, Adrienne O. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2010
From a theoretical viewpoint, educational interfaces that facilitate communicative actions involving representations central to a domain can maximize students' effort associated with constructing new schemas. In addition, interfaces that minimize working memory demands due to the interface per se, for example by mimicking existing non-digital work…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Short Term Memory, Science Education, Computer Interfaces
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Potter, Andrew – Internet and Higher Education, 2008
Numerous studies have affirmed the value of asynchronous online communication as a learning resource. Several investigations, however, have indicated that discussions in asynchronous environments are often neither interactive nor coherent. The research reported sought to develop an enhanced understanding of interactional coherence, argumentation,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Semantics, Discussion Groups
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Westera, Wim; van den Herik, Jaap; van de Vrie, Evert – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2004
The field of higher education shows a jumble of alliances between fellow institutes. The alliances are strategic in kind and serve an economy-of-scales concept. A large scale is a prerequisite for allocating the budgets for new educational methods and technologies in order to keep the educational services up-to-date. All too often, however,…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Consortia
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Marshall, Byron B.; Chen, Hsinchun; Shen, Rao; Fox, Edward A. – Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 2006
The GetSmart system was built to support theoretically sound learning processes in a digital library environment by integrating course management, digital library, and concept mapping components to support a constructivist, six-step, information search process. In the fall of 2002 more than 100 students created 1400 concept maps as part of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Concept Mapping, Knowledge Representation, Electronic Libraries