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Chapman, Diane D.; Storberg-Walker, Julia; Stone, Sophia J. – E-Learning, 2008
Providing tools for dialogue exchange does not ensure that students will respond to team mate postings or that online groups will grow in cohesiveness. Students decide whether or not to reply, and it is increasingly important to understand how students make these decisions due to the increase in distance education, millenials, and asynchronous…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Graduate Students, Discussion Groups, Electronic Learning
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Brett, Clare – E-Learning, 2009
This article examines key issues in how new technologies are impacting upon how we teach, learn and collaborate, and uses an educational research project called GRAIL (Graduate Researcher's Academic Identity Online) under development to illustrate some fundamental issues in adopting new technologies. A significant challenge to the effective use of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Cultural Context, Social Environment, Social Change
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Xin, Cindy; Feenberg, Andrew – E-Learning, 2007
This article elaborates a model for understanding pedagogy in online educational forums. The model identifies four key components. Intellectual engagement describes the foreground cognitive processes of collaborative learning. Communication processes operating in the background accumulate an ever richer store of shared understandings that enable…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Communication, Motivation
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Probst, Heidi; Eddy, David; Doughty, Jo; Hodgson, Denyse – E-Learning, 2009
Training health professionals within university environments has traditionally focused on face-to-face methods. Practitioners working within the UK National Health Service (NHS) have found it difficult to gain leave from work to attend for study due to the demands of the NHS and staff shortages. In response, the authors developed a distance…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Health Services, Student Attitudes
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Holstrom, Lisa; Ruiz, Donna; Weller, Gerry – E-Learning, 2007
This article explores innovations in assessment of student teaching practice employed in the University of Cincinnati, USA, online associate's degree in early childhood education, the Early Childhood Learning Community. The program's components are identified with a specific focus on assessment of teaching practicum. The use of a range of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Practicums
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McShane, Kim – E-Learning, 2006
Teaching and learning online is one of several risky practices in higher education today that threaten to disfigure academics' work and identity. For many academics, accustomed to the tempo and practices of face-to-face teaching, it threatens disorientation. In this article the author examines the teaching beliefs of a computer science lecturer,…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Online Courses, Computer Science, College Faculty