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Rouhollah Khodabandelou; Hossein Chaharbashloo; Mostafa Ghaderi; Hassanreza Zeinabadi; Leila Karimi – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Online instruction is now a common practice in higher education. Due to the great demand for online instruction, roles and competencies of online instructors have received significant attention to be determined. This study is a systematic review of 11 years of research (2010-2020) on the higher education context's online instructor roles and…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, College Faculty, Teacher Role, Distance Education
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Kaysi, Feyzi – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
With the rising influence of technology, students have become heavy users of instant messaging applications. It makes one wonder about students' motivations in using these applications and their usage habits. The aims of this study were to analyze the messaging activities of university students in blended classroom groups, to investigate the…
Descriptors: College Students, Synchronous Communication, Handheld Devices, Student Behavior
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Bing Yang; Chongqing Xie; Tingting Liu; Jing Xu; Weihua Li – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
It is still a challenge for students to engage in classroom dialogue actively and realize effective dialogue-based learning, as classroom dialogue are influenced by a multitude of factors. It is reasonable to believe that by delving into a specific variable (perceived care) to gain insights into its potential impact on dialogue engagement, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Grade 7, Teacher Student Relationship
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Zhicheng Dai; Junxia Xiong; Liang Zhao; Xiuling He – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Activity theory is of great importance in emphasizing the role of community and intermediary tools in the subject's internalization activities. From the perspective of activity theory, via systematically and comprehensively exploring kinds of different interactions between various elements (e.g. subject, community and tools) in classroom teaching,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Information Technology, Educational Theories, Classroom Communication
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Kai Guo; Yuchun Zhong; Danling Li; Samuel Kai Wah Chu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This study proposed a novel approach to classroom debates, in which chatbots that are able to engage in argumentative dialogues are adopted to facilitate students' debate preparation. The approach comprised three stages: first, students interacted with a chatbot named Argumate to help them generate ideas; second, students discussed the ideas with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Debate, Persuasive Discourse
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Johnson, Mark William; Rodriguez-Arciniegas, Svetlana; Kataeva, Anna Nikolaevna – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The way in which informal learning in a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is coordinated is poorly understood. Conversation -- with teachers, friends or family -- contributes to the processes involved in meaningfully negotiating resources. While institution-centric education creates contexts for conversations and codifies educational attainment,…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Independent Study, Concept Formation, Cybernetics
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Waheed, Mehwish; Leišyte, Liudvika – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study aims to examine the difference in students' satisfaction with the Quality Characteristics (QualChar) of the Digital Learning Systems (DLs) with regards to gender and frequency of interaction between students-students and students-teachers. A cross-sectional online quantitative survey was used to collect data from English language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Electronic Learning, Learning Management Systems
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Hsiao-Ling Hsu; Howard Hao-Jan Chen; Andrew G. Todd – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
With advances in technology, intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) have become available to assist users with a variety of tasks using voice commands. Because IPAs may induce dialogic interactions, researchers speculated that they may benefit second language learning, especially regarding pronunciation, listening and speaking skills. So far, very…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Artificial Intelligence
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Lui, Debora; Walker, Justice T.; Hanna, Sheri; Kafai, Yasmin B.; Fields, Deborah; Jayathirtha, Gayithri – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
Portfolios have recently gained traction within computer science education as a way to assess students' computational thinking and practices. Whereas traditional assessments such as exams tend to capture learning within artificial settings at a single point in time, portfolios provide more authentic opportunities to document a trajectory of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Computer Science Education, Textiles Instruction, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Iglesias, Ana; Jiménez, Javier; Revuelta, Pablo; Moreno, Lourdes – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Education is a fundamental human right, however unfortunately not everybody has the same learning opportunities. For instance, if a student has hearing impairments, s/he could face communications barriers in the classroom, which could affect his/her learning process. APEINTA is a Spanish educational project that aims for inclusive education for…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Strategies, Barriers, Assistive Technology