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Won, Samantha G. L.; Evans, Michael A.; Huang, Lixiao – Learning, Media and Technology, 2017
Social networking sites (SNSs) are popular technologies used frequently among youth for recreational purposes. Increasing attention has been paid to the use of SNSs in educational settings as a way to engage youth interest and encourage academically productive discussion. Potential affordances of using SNSs for education include knowledge…
Descriptors: Clubs, After School Programs, STEM Education, Educational Technology
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Judge, Miriam; Tuite, Declan – Learning, Media and Technology, 2017
This paper provides a systematic review of students' multimedia projects and reveals how a complex web of institutional, local, global and gender issues influence the process of digital media creation by young adults. The significance of this research for this Special Issue lies in the study's longitudinal nature, which examined students'…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Multimedia Materials, Technology Uses in Education
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Kimmons, Royce; Veletsianos, George – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
As teacher education students become professionals, they face a number of tensions related to identity, social participation, and work-life balance, which may be further complicated by social networking sites (SNS). This qualitative study sought to articulate tensions that arose between professionalization influences and teacher education student…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Qualitative Research, Preservice Teachers, Professional Identity
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Stewart, Bonnie – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
Within the academy, signals of a scholar's academic influence are made manifest in indices like the "h"-index, which rank output. In open scholarly networks, however, signals of influence are less codified, and the ways in which they are enacted and understood have yet to be articulated. Yet the influence scholars cultivate in open…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Ethnography
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Thibaut, Patricia; Curwood, Jen Scott; Carvalho, Lucila; Simpson, Alyson – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
With the introduction of digital tools and online connectivity in primary schools, the shape of teaching and learning is shifting beyond the physical classroom. Drawing on the architecture of productive learning networks framework, we examine the affordances and limitations of an upper primary learning network and focus on how the digital and…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
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Robertson, John W.; Lee, Sally – Learning, Media and Technology, 2007
Much previous research into the effectiveness of CMC has suffered from a lack of clarity or of consistency in the adoption and explication of coding typologies or taxonomies. This has reduced the opportunities for comparison between studies and for the accumulation of evidences to guide pedagogy. In addition, most studies of CMC have used…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Sciences, Humanities