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The Relationship between Adopting a Synchronous Medium and Participation in Online Group Work: An Explorative Study
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Hrastinski, Stefan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2006
Achieving student participation, it has been argued, is one of the most important challenges in distance education. This explorative study examines whether a synchronous communication medium, instant messaging (IM), may enable students to participate more actively in online group work. When comparing two groups that adopted IM with two groups that…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Distance Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Networks
Brave New (Interactive) Worlds: A Review of the Design Affordances and Constraints of Two 3D Virtual Worlds as Interactive Learning Environments
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Dickey, Michele D. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2005
Three-dimensional virtual worlds are an emerging medium currently being used in both traditional classrooms and for distance education. Three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds are a combination of desk-top interactive Virtual Reality within a chat environment. This analysis provides an overview of Active Worlds Educational Universe and Adobe…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Distance Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Mail