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Factors Influencing Student Mobility: A Comparative European Study
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Perez-Encinas, Adriana; Rodriguez-Pomeda, Jesus; de Wit, Hans – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
A range of different factors drive student decision-making with respect to studying abroad, they are called push and pull factors. They influence in the (non)-mobility experience of students. This paper focuses on the international student experience, predominantly focusing on: credit-degree mobility and bachelor -- master students. The aim of…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, College Credits, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
The Impact of Network Ties, Shared Languages and Shared Visions on Entrepreneurial Intentions of Online University Students
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Pérez-Macías, Noemí; Fernández-Fernández, José- Luis; Rúa Vieites, Antonio – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
There is a scarcity of research on the influence of structural -network ties (NT)-, cognitive -shared languages (SL) and shared visions (SV)- social capital (SC) dimensions on online students' entrepreneurial intentions (EI). This paper, drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), examines this influence on a sample of 302 Spanish online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Capital
Re-Evaluating the Postgraduate Students' Course Selection Decision Making Process in the Digital Era
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Towers, Angela; Towers, Neil – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
The paper explores how postgraduate students make course selection decisions in the digital era. An exploratory study with seven postgraduate student focus groups (UK, EU and International) gained a detailed insight into this important change. The availability of information, from an increased use of digital media had a significant impact on…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Decision Making, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students
Learning from a Wiki Way of Learning
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Page, Kelly L.; Reynolds, Nina – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
There is a growing need to design learning experiences in higher education that develop collaborative and mediated social writing practices. A wiki way of learning addresses these needs. This paper reports findings from a case study involving 58 postgraduate students who in small groups participated over eight weeks in a mediated collaborative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Research Universities, Cooperative Learning
Consensus, Difference and "Multiple Communities" in Networked Learning
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Hodgson, Vivien; Reynolds, Michael – Studies in Higher Education, 2005
The article reviews the popularity in networked learning designs for values of collaboration, and in particular, of community. Examples of this are drawn from the networked learning literature, highlighting corresponding arguments for networked learning providing the basis for a more democratic ethos within higher educational programmes. The…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Processes, Computer Networks, Higher Education
Designs for Network Learning: A Communities of Practice Perspective
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Cousin, Glynis; Deepwell, Frances – Studies in Higher Education, 2005
This article explores the relevance for network learning of themes developed by Wenger, initially with Lave and subsequently alone. While Wenger's fieldwork is located in the workplace, he sees his theorisation on becoming a learner as applicable to any context, be it home, work or formal education. In unravelling the connectedness between…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Theories, Group Dynamics, Group Unity