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Harrison, J. Buckley; West, Richard E. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This design-based research study explored whether "sense of community" was maintained while flexibility in the course was increased through an adoption of a unique blended learning model. Data collected in this study show a significant drop in the sense of connectedness score from a mean of 50.8 out of 66 to a mean of 39.68 in the first…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Blended Learning, Student Projects, Active Learning
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Gaševic, Dragan; Kovanovic, Vitomir; Joksimovic, Srecko; Siemens, George – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This paper reports on the results of an analysis of the research proposals submitted to the MOOC Research Initiative (MRI) funded by the Gates Foundation and administered by Athabasca University. The goal of MRI was to mobilize researchers to engage into critical interrogation of MOOCs. The submissions--266 in Phase 1, out of which 78 was…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Research, Research Proposals, Content Analysis
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Özmen, Büsra; Atici, Bünyamin – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
In this study, it was aimed to examine the use of learning management systems supported by social networking sites in distance education and to determine the views of learners regarding these platforms. The study group of this study, which uses a qualitative research approach, consists of 15 undergraduate students who resumed their education in…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Social Networks, Database Management Systems, Courseware
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Shea, Peter; Hayes, Suzanne; Smith, Sedef Uzuner; Vickers, Jason; Bidjerano, Temi; Gozza-Cohen, Mary; Jian, Shou-Bang; Pickett, Alexandra M.; Wilde, Jane; Tseng, Chi-Hua – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
This paper presents an extension of an ongoing study of online learning framed within the community of inquiry (CoI) model (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2001) in which we further examine a new construct labeled as "learning presence." We use learning presence to refer to the iterative processes of forethought and planning,…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Content Analysis, Metacognition