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Direct linkNgocvan Bui; Jessica Collier; Yunus Emre Ozturk; Donggil Song – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
The popularity of generative AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, has sparked numerous studies investigating their use in educational contexts. However, it is important to note that chatbots are not a new phenomenon; researchers have explored conversational agents across diverse fields for decades. Conversational agents engage users in natural language…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
Safadel, Parviz; White, David – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
Spatial understanding of molecules in molecular biology provides a better understanding of molecules in isolation and relation to their next elements. Augmented reality (AR) has recently been developed as a computer interface that enables the users to see the real world with virtual objects superimposed on it. We report a method that shows the use…
Descriptors: Molecular Biology, College Students, Science Instruction, Computer Interfaces
Sheail, Philippa – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This article draws on theoretical work which considers the composition of meetings, in order to think about the form of the meeting in digital environments for higher education. To explore the motif of meeting, I undertake a "compositional interpretation" (Rose, 2012) of the default interface offered by "Collaborate", an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Meetings, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Interfaces
Luterbach, Kenneth J.; Hubbell, Kenneth R. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
To create instructional apps for desktop, laptop and mobile devices, developers must select a development tool. Tool selection is critical and complicated by the large number and variety of app development tools. One important criterion to consider is the type of development environment, which may primarily be visual or symbolic. Those distinct…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Handheld Devices
Descy, Don E. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2006
Some remember when they accessed the Internet through the telephone on a 300-baud modem. It was slow and it was not easy, but it gave them a view of the world. Now there is the web, idiot-proof email, and practically unlimited wireless connectivity. Having gone from desktop computers to laptops, now a major push is moving connectivity into the…
Descriptors: Internet, Telecommunications, History, Computers
Beatty, Brian; Ulasewicz, Connie – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2006
Online teaching and learning has been in transition for its entire existence. The number of courses offered at a distance has grown rapidly. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (Waits & Lewis, 2003), in 2000-2001 more than 56% of four-year colleges and universities in the United States offered distance education degree…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Distance Education, Computer Managed Instruction
