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Q & A with Ed Tech Leaders: Interview with Ryan Watkins
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Shaughnessy, Michael F.; Fulgham, Susan M. – Educational Technology, 2016
In this regular feature of "Educational Technology," Michael F. Shaughnessy and Susan M. Fulgham present their interview with Ryan Watkins, Associate Professor of Educational Technology at the George Washington University and the author of 10 books and more than 95 articles. In this interview, Watkins discusses the following topics:…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Interviews, Electronic Learning, Skill Development
Peer Feedback through Blogs: Student and Teacher Perceptions in an Advanced German Class
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Dippold, Doris – ReCALL, 2009
Recent years have seen the emergence of Web2.0, in which users are not only passive recipients of the featured content, but actively engaged in constructing it. Sites such as "Facebook" and "Myspace" are typical examples of this, as are blogs that allow users to present themselves online, to write about their daily lives or even to establish…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Focus Groups, Learning Processes
Consensus, Difference and "Multiple Communities" in Networked Learning
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Hodgson, Vivien; Reynolds, Michael – Studies in Higher Education, 2005
The article reviews the popularity in networked learning designs for values of collaboration, and in particular, of community. Examples of this are drawn from the networked learning literature, highlighting corresponding arguments for networked learning providing the basis for a more democratic ethos within higher educational programmes. The…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Processes, Computer Networks, Higher Education
Situated Action and Distributed Knowledge: A JITOL Perspective on EPSS.
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Goodyear, Peter – Innovations in Education and Training International, 1995
Describes the JITOL (Just-in-Time Open Learning) project funded by the European Community and offers a JITOL perspective on electronic performance support as a technology for accessing distributed knowledge and promoting continuing professional development through computer-mediated communication. The learning cycle, prototype tools, and courseware…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Courseware, Foreign Countries
Dialogue Theory as a Tool for Understanding Interactive Learning Processes.
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Dysthe, Olga – Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 1999
Explicates aspects of dialogue theory that may enhance understanding of educational processes in general and interactive learning processes in particular. Bakhtin's extended theory of dialogue, the concept of multivoicedness and Lotman's dual functions of texts are explained and used to analyze a Web-mediated discussion among university students.…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Dialogs (Language), Higher Education
An Education and Training Toolkit for the New Millennium?
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Race, Phil – Innovations in Education and Training International, 1998
Presents a personal overview regarding education and training in general, and effective continuing professional development in particular, in the next millennium. Topics include change; learning processes; types of learning, including open, flexible, independent, group, collaborative, and cooperative; lifelong learning; continuing vocational…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning, Futures (of Society)
The E-Learning Revolution: How Technology Is Driving a New Training Paradigm.
Sloman, Martyn – 2002
This book, which is written from the perspective of a practicing human resources manager, presents 17 case studies illustrating how technology is driving a new training paradigm. The case studies support 21 propositions regarding training in the e- learning (electronic learning) revolution, including the following:(1) the Internet changes…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies