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Ozden Candemir; Berrin Ozkanal – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2024
The aim of this study is to determine the metaphorical ideas held by learners/graduates who engage in online student communities within the Anadolu University Open and Distance Education System, specifically with the concept of "online student communities". The study utilized a qualitative research methodology, specifically employing the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Communities of Practice, Student Attitudes, Graduates
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Kaustavi Sarkar – Journal of Dance Education, 2024
The pandemic has forced Indian dance communities to pivot to online mediums. I investigate pandemic-induced shifts in two ways. I theorize through "Chhapaka" (a sling-shot movement involving oppositions of footwork and torso articulations) of my dancing Odissi (an eastern Indian traditional form) body, providing an embodied metaphor of…
Descriptors: Mass Media, Dance, Asian Culture, Shift Studies
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Kim A. Johnston; Anne B. Lane – Student Success, 2023
Generalised moves to online and more flexible delivery modes of teaching have challenged the perceptions and expectations of university educators worldwide. Congruence around educator role expectations, held by both the educator and their students, therefore is central to educator wellbeing, and by default, student success in a changing university…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teacher Welfare, Teacher Role, Expectation
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Alan, Yakup – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
Metaphors are important ways to show how people perceive the world and life around them. By creating metaphors, people show how they position themselves life, and that of other people, their environment, and situations in their minds and what the phenomenon, for which they create a metaphor, means to them in today's world. This has been affected…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, College Faculty, Negative Attitudes
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Jihea Maddamsetti; Rui Yuan – Research Papers in Education, 2024
This study examines how primary-level preservice teachers (PSTs) in an online asynchronous course (co-)constructed and (re)negotiated their professional identities through the use of metaphors in online asynchronous courses in the U.S. By using metaphors and narrating their lived experiences in relation to their chosen metaphors, participants…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Self Concept, Personal Narratives
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Polat, Murat – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2022
The COVID-19 Pandemic process has brought with it a climate of uncertainty. This uncertain environment also contains a lot of uncertainty about classroom management for preservice teachers. The main purpose of this study was to reveal the metaphorical perceptions and views of preservice teachers about the source of the uncertainties they encounter…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Topalak, Sefika – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2022
This research was conducted to reveal the metaphorical perceptions of music teacher candidates about piano lessons during the pandemic period's online education process. The study group of the research consists of fortyone students who are studying in Trabzon University Fatih Education Faculty Fine Arts Education Department, Music Teaching…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Music Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Music Education
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Saglamel, Hasan; Erbay Çetinkaya, Sakire – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2022
The current COVID-19 situation has affected almost all walks of life, including language education. As a result, remote teaching practices have become the mainstream offering in many settings. However, how students respond to this transition needs to be grasped to develop a deeper understanding of the educational practices at this period. Metaphor…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Emergency Programs, Distance Education
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Asvat, Zaheera Jina – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2022
Background: Research argues that parents/teachers and learners work collaboratively and this active participation in scaffolded activities builds knowledge and extends understandings. However, researchers who have explored scaffolding as a pedagogic tool do not demonstrate how this tool looks in practice. Objectives: As a teacher educator, I…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Semantics, Electronic Learning, Teacher Student Relationship
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Cunico, Sonia – Research-publishing.net, 2021
Exeter students who had their 2019-2020 Year Abroad (YA) cut short by the COVID-19 health crisis were offered alternative online language provision to support their learning. This contribution discusses the students and staff's experience in the light of 'learning is a journey' metaphor. [For the complete volume, "Languages at Work, Competent…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Tourism
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Shearer, Rick L.; Aldemir, Tugce; Hitchcock, Jana; Resig, Jessie; Driver, Jessica; Kohler, Megan – American Journal of Distance Education, 2020
As online learning continues to evolve many have proposed that we think differently about our pedagogical approaches, to move beyond the replication of the face-to-face experience. Here we explore the student and faculty visions of the future using a Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation (ZMET) method that uses images to metaphorically represent how…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Online Courses, Figurative Language, Evaluation Methods
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Alyahya, Dalia – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2018
Studies have shown the importance of visual metaphor in facilitating learning. Metaphor aids in communicating complex concepts in a clear manner, and enhances the learning experience. This study investigates graduate students' experiences and attitudes toward visual metaphors in an online learning environment. The visual metaphor used in this…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Qualitative Research, Visualization, Figurative Language
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Sharma, Ramesh C., Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
New tools and technologies are being developed to cater to the e-learning triangle of content, technology, and services. These developments (in technology, needs of students, emergence of new modes of education like MOOCs or flipped classrooms, etc.) have resulted in a change in the approach to teaching. "Innovative Applications of Online…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Instructional Design
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Liu, Ming-Chou; Chi, Ming-Hsiao – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
In the era of the Internet, factors which influence effective learning in a Web-based learning environment are well worth exploring. In addition to knowledge acquisition and skills training, affect is also an important factor, since successful learning requires excellent affective performance. Thus this study focuses on learners' affective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Program Effectiveness, Personality Traits
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Wang, Yu-Mei; Chen, Derthanq Victor – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2011
Online learning space design becomes a significant issue with the proliferation of online learning in higher education. Never before has the instructor been given such a privilege in building and molding the learning space to fulfill his/her instructional aspirations. However, enormous challenges are present to the instructor in taking advantage…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Instructional Design, Web Based Instruction
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