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McElvaney, Jessica; Berge, Zane – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009
This paper explores how "personal web technologies" (PWTs) can be used by learners and the relationship between PWTs and connectivist learning principles. Descriptions and applications of several technologies including social bookmarking tools, personal publishing platforms, and aggregators are also included. With these tools,…
Descriptors: Desktop Publishing, Internet, Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication
Anderson, Lynn; Anderson, Terry – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009
In order to stay current within their field, many professionals regularly attend conferences and training events in distant locales. Travel to these conferences costs professionals, and their sponsor organizations, both time and money. In the past the benefits afforded by these conferences, and the lack of comparable alternatives, have provided…
Descriptors: Travel, Climate, Professional Development, Computer Mediated Communication
Scardamalia, Marlene; Bereiter, Carl – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2010
Knowledge Building as a theoretical, pedagogical, and technological innovation focuses on the 21st century need to work creatively with knowledge. The team now advancing Knowledge Building spans multiple disciplines, sectors, and cultural contexts. Several teacher-researcher-government partnerships have formed to bring about the systemic changes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Research and Development, Intentional Learning
Murphy, Elizabeth – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2008
The effectiveness of computer-based learning environments depends on learners' deployment of metacognitive and self-regulatory processes. Analysis of transmitted messages in a context of Computer Mediated Communication can provide a source of information on metacognitive activity. However, existing models or frameworks (e.g., Henri, 1992) that…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Computer Mediated Communication, Instructional Design, Computer Assisted Instruction
MacKinnon, Gregory R.; Aylward, M. Lynn – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009
Technology offers promising opportunities for creating new types of classroom learning environments. This paper describes three technology models used by teacher education interns: electronic portfolios, negotiative concept mapping, cognote-supported electronic discussions. As implemented in the current study, these models invoke graduated…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Educational Technology, Models, Preservice Teacher Education
Murphy, Elizabeth; Rodriguez Manzanares, Maria A. – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2006
This paper provides an illustrative example of an approach to creating and reporting individual profiles of engagement in particular behaviours in an online asynchronous discussion (OAD). Individual results of analysis of transcripts of an OAD can provide insights different from those gained by focusing on aggregate measures of group behaviours.…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Graduate Students, Student Behavior
McCracken, Janet – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2003
As increasing numbers of undergraduate students in higher education are engaging in online group discussions as part of their course work, there is a need to gain insights into the nature of the experience of learning in this new context. Previous studies have reported benefits for students who engaged in online discussions, but few describe these…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion, Learning Strategies
Anderson, Terry – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2005
Design-based research is proposed as a strategy to address the need for innovation in educational contexts. The article argues the case for increased and more effective research and development in education, and then presents a discussion of design-based research as a methodological set of tools to address this need. The four phases of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Innovation, Research and Development, Research Design