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Xiu, Ying; Thompson, Penny – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2020
Video is a rich medium that conveys more social cues than text. Use of video in an online discussion forum therefore has the potential to increase social presence in online learning environments. This experimental study compared a group using video for a portion of the required discussion posts to a group using only text in an online undergraduate…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Video Technology, Electronic Learning
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Krzyszkowska, Krystyna; Mavrommati, Maria – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2020
Education authorities in Norway endorse online courses for in-service teachers to raise education standards and to promote digital competence. Naturally, these offerings present teachers with opportunities to integrate new theoretical perspectives and their professional experience in an online learning community. The inquiry into one's…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Distance Education
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Arasaratnam-Smith, Lily A.; Northcote, Maria – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2017
Exploring the challenges and opportunities associated with the concepts of community and communication in online higher education, this paper reconsiders the intention to replicate face-to-face learning and teaching strategies in online learning environments. Rather than beginning with the assumption that face-to-face education is the prototype…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Nonverbal Communication
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Motlhaka, Hlaviso – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2020
Academic writing in higher education involves acculturation of discourse characterised by new and unfamiliar social, cultural and academic conventions which remain a huge challenge for instructors and students worldwide. This study aimed at investigating the use of Blackboard Collaborated-Based Instruction to improve academic writing skills of…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Academic Language, Writing Instruction, Writing Improvement
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Weber, Peter; Lehr, Christian; Gersch, Martin – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2014
Virtual collaboration continues to gain in significance and is attracting attention also as virtual collaborative learning (VCL) in education. This paper addresses aspects of VCL that we identified as critical in a series of courses named "Net Economy": (1) technical infrastructure, (2) motivation and collaboration, and (3) assessment…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning, Action Research, Online Courses
Barber, Wendy; Taylor, Stacey; Buchanan, Sylvia – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to examine a specific online pedagogical tool, "Digital Moments" that can be an effective strategy for building online communities in a knowledge building environment. While the paper will examine the specific techniques and teaching methodologies that enabled the authors to create authentic online learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), Innovation
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Nerantzi, Chrissi – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
The idea of moving away from battery-type Academic Development Activities and silo modules and programmes towards open cross-institutional approaches in line with OEP are explored within this paper based on a recent small-scale, fully-online study. This brought together academics and other professionals who support learning, from different…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Feedback (Response)
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Jameson, Jill – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2008
A nomadic collaborative partnership model for a community of practice (CoP) in Design for Learning (D4L) can facilitate successful innovation and continuing appraisals of effective professional practice, stimulated by a "critical friend" assigned to the project. This paper reports on e-learning case studies collected by the UK JISC eLIDA…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Partnerships in Education, Electronic Learning, Case Studies
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Balcaen, Philip L.; Hirtz, Janine R. – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007
In this paper, we consider an approach to developing critically thoughtful e-Learning communities of practice--where participants are deliberate about the use of specific intellectual tools supporting critical thinking. We address Garrison & Anderson's (2003) argument that such critical thinking should play a central role within the ecology of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Electronic Learning, Communities of Practice
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Courtney, Kathy – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007
This paper gives an account of an attempt by an educational developer to support and strengthen an emergent Community of Practice (CoP) (Wenger 1998a). This community consists of members of staff associated in different capacities with the Centre for Interprofessional e-Learning (CIPeL), a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL),…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Electronic Learning, Community Development, Virtual Classrooms
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Levinsen, Karin Tweddell – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2006
It is often stressed that the pedagogic models and approaches of Collaborative Online Learning support a learner's shared knowledge building within collaborating groups of learners, the individual construction of knowledge and the formation of an ongoing learning Community of Practice. Based on a recent case study of a Danish Master's programme,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Critical Thinking, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
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Moule, Pam – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2006
Doctoral research considered whether healthcare students were able to develop characteristics of Communities of Practice when engaged in an interprofessional online module. Using a case study approach the research included two phases. Within phase one a questionnaire was administered to the group of 109 healthcare students. These were analysed to…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Paraprofessional Personnel