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Teacher Social Capital and Student Achievement: Impact of a Cyber-Enabled Teacher Professional Development Program
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Liu, Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This is an evaluative research study of a NSF-funded, DRK-12 cyber-enabled teacher professional development program in elementary engineering education. The finding shows the significant impact of the program on students' science and engineering knowledge in the second year of the program's implementation. However, student learning gain…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Electronic Learning
Knowledge Contribution in a Non-Formal Virtual Setting through a Social Constructionist Approach: A Case Study of an Online Learning Community
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Moses, Myra Gail – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explored an online learning community in a non-formal educational setting and the process participants used in order to share, create, and construct knowledge through their interactions in the online community. Participants in the study were college interns who were part of a grant that focused on providing professional development for…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Electronic Learning, Communities of Practice, Social Networks
A Study of Student Interaction in an Online Learning Environment Specially Crafted for Cross-Level Peer Mentoring
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Ruane, Regina – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explored the ways that students in an online teacher education program connected in a specially crafted peer mentoring program developed for cross-level peer mentoring. Program administrators developed the peer mentoring site in response to observations that enrolled students, particularly new students, were often unsure of how to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Peer Relationship, Mentors, Teacher Education Programs
An Assessment of Knowledge Construction in an Online Discussion Forum: The Relationship between Content Analysis and Social Network Analysis
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Buraphadeja, Vasa – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examines the relationship between two ways of measuring critical thinking in online discussion forums. The study proposes that the results from content analysis, a well-developed technique that is used to measure level of thinking and knowledge construction in online environment, would relate to the results from social network analysis,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Network Analysis, Critical Thinking, Social Networks
The Role of Dialogue in Distance Education: A Qualitative Study
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Watts, Lynette K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Distance education has come a long way from its first offerings of pen and paper when submissions had to be mailed and no interaction occurred between students and instructors. One concern that has remained is that of keeping students connected to peers and instructors. Moore (1973) stated this psychological and communication gap (transactional…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses, Course Content
Perceptions of Community of Associate Degree Nurse Learners in an RN-to-BSN Online Program
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Rebar, Cherie R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Registered Nurses (RNs), when educated in an Associate Degree (AD) program, learn in a face-to-face environment. Today's preferred standard of education for RNs is to achieve a minimum of a Bachelor's degree. For convenience while they continue working, numerous AD-prepared nurses seek online education to complete their Bachelor of Science in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Nurses