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Arshad, Mamoona; Akram, Muhammad Shakaib – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
The paper investigates the impact of virtual environmental characteristics such as collaboration, communication, and resource sharing on social media adoption by the academic community at the university level. Building on the social constructivist paradigm and technology acceptance model, we propose a conceptual model to assess social media…
Descriptors: Social Media, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Universities
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Colas, Jean-François; Sloep, Peter B.; Garreta-Domingo, Muriel – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
A new approach for overcoming the language and culture barriers to participation in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is reported. It is hypothesised that the juxtaposition of English as the "language of instruction," used for interacting with course materials, and one's preferred language as the "language of participation,"…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Barriers, Language Usage
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Thomas, Marshall P.; Türkay, Selen; Parker, Michael – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
As online courses become more common, practitioners are in need of clear guidance on how to translate best educational practices into web-based instruction. Moreover, student engagement is a pressing concern in online courses, which often have high levels of dropout. Our goals in this work were to experimentally study routine instructional design…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Courseware, Best Practices, Educational Practices