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Conrad Borchers; Clémence Darriet; Joshua M. Rosenberg; Francesca López – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
Public Internet Data Mining methods enable studying educational institutions' public-facing communication. Multiple online data sources can illuminate differences in how different audiences are addressed online, opening the door for critical inquiry into emerging issues of representation and targeted advertising. The present study presents a case…
Descriptors: School Districts, Advertising, Social Media, Web Sites
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Trespalacios, Jesús H.; Perkins, Ross A. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
Individual strategies to increase response rate and survey completion have been extensively researched. Recently, efforts have been made to investigate a combination of interventions to yield better response rates for web-based surveys. This study examined the effects of four different survey invitation conditions on response rate. From a large…
Descriptors: Response Rates (Questionnaires), Online Surveys, Focus Groups, College Students
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Sinclair, Christine – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This study brings together three student comments and three theoretical constructs taken from Bakhtin's (1981) collection of essays "The Dialogic Imagination", written in the 1930s. Bakhtin's concepts of the chronotope, interanimation and the monologic provide lenses on a shifting student perspective on authoritative writing in…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Student Attitudes, Essays
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Dobbins, Chelsea; Denton, Philip – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
This paper is a report of an investigation in which mobile technologies were used during large lecture-type sessions in tandem with the Textwall™ software. This online program is able to receive and present messages from students' devices that the lecturer may then share. It also can be used to collect student votes on multiple-choice questions,…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Lecture Method, Large Group Instruction
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Zimmerman, Heather Toomey; Gamrat, Christopher; Hooper, Simon – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
Parents and children are rapidly adopting mobile technologies, yet designs for mobile devices that serve a communication function to connect parents to children's out-of-school time activities are limited. As a result, our team designed the Digital Postcard Maker so that children attending summer camps can create digital photographs to send…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Communication Strategies, Summer Programs, Resident Camp Programs
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Kearns, Lorna R.; Frey, Barbara A. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2010
Communication, collaboration and community development are processes that contribute to student satisfaction and learning in online courses. This paper describes a study that investigated how campus and distance graduate students in a library science program communicated with one another outside the official boundaries of their courses. We…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, Distance Education, Online Courses