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Naghdipour, Bakhtiar; Eldridge, Nilgün Hancioglu – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
The use of online social networking sites for educational purposes or expanding curricular opportunities has recently sparked debates in scholarly forums. This potential, however, has yet to attract sufficient attention in second language classes, and particularly in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. The current study explores the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Affordances, English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction
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Moore, Robert L. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
The separation of student and instructor is the core characteristic of distance education (Simonson et al., 2012, p. 28), contributing to one of the biggest challenges to distance education-attrition (Dueber & Misanchuk, 2001, p. 2). By the very nature of distance education, students are different locations from one another and their…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Learner Engagement