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Gallego-Romero, Jesús Manuel; Alario-Hoyos, Carlos; Estévez-Ayres, Iria; Delgado Kloos, Carlos – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can be enhanced with the so-called learning-by-doing, designing the courses in a way that the learners are involved in a more active way in the learning process. Within the options for increasing learners' interaction in MOOCs, it is possible to integrate (third-party) external tools as part of the instructional…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Behavior, Learning Analytics, Online Courses
Park, SeungWon; Kim, ChanMin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2014
This article reports on evaluation studies of the Virtual Tutee System (VTS) designed to enhance students' engagement in academic reading. The VTS is a web-based peer-tutoring environment in which students teach a virtual tutee about the content in course readings that students have been assigned to learn. With the VTS, students interact with…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Peer Teaching, Reading Instruction, Formative Evaluation
Sansone, Carol; Fraughton, Tamra; Zachary, Joseph L.; Butner, Jonathan; Heiner, Cecily – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
Successful online students must learn and maintain motivation to learn. The Self-regulation of Motivation (SRM) model (Sansone and Thoman 2005) suggests two kinds of motivation are essential: Goals-defined (i.e., value and expectancy of learning), and experience-defined (i.e., whether interesting). The Regulating Motivation and Performance Online…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Motivation, Online Courses, Learning Motivation
Sullivan, Florence R.; Hamilton, Claire E.; Allessio, Danielle A.; Boit, Rachel J.; Deschamps, Alexandra D.; Sindelar, Tony; Vargas Ramos, German E.; Randall, Anthony; Wilson, Nicholas; Zhu, Yan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
In this paper we report the results of a study which investigated the affordances of multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) for collaborative learning from a design perspective. Utilizing a mixed methods approach, we conducted a comparative study of the effect of varying representational and interactional design features on a collaborative design…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Interaction, Child Development, Problem Solving
Erichsen, Elizabeth A.; Bolliger, Doris U. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
A mixed-methodology approach was employed to gain a better understanding of international graduate students' perceptions of academic and social isolation, both in traditional and online environments, to see if these differ, and to explore suggestions for improving their sense of engagement within their learning communities. A survey was completed…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Distance Education, Social Isolation
Kay, Robin H.; Knaack, Liesel – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2009
Learning objects are interactive web-based tools that support the learning of specific concepts by enhancing, amplifying, and/or guiding the cognitive processes of learners. Research on the impact, effectiveness, and usefulness of learning objects is limited, partially because comprehensive, theoretically based, reliable, and valid evaluation…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity, Measures (Individuals)