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Sense of Challenge, Threat, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation of Students Learning in Virtual and Blended Courses
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Zilka, Gila Cohen; Rahimi, Ilan Daniels; Cohen, Revital – American Journal of Distance Education, 2019
Feelings of threat, challenge, motivation, self-efficacy, and transactional distance reflect students' struggles with the learning process. This study examined the relationship between students' subjective feelings about the learning process in virtual and blended courses (VC and BC). This is a mixed-method study. The sample included 484 students…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Blended Learning, Computer Simulation, Self Efficacy
Students' Views on the Use of ClassBoost in a Teachers' Education College
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Levin, Orna; Avidov-Ungar, Orit – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
There has been a recent acceleration in the use of lecture capture technologies (LCT) in higher education institutions. The present study focuses on an LCT system, by the name of ClassBoost, which has recently been introduced in some classes in an academic college of education in Israel. The system encourages collaborative learning skills at…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Management Systems, Cooperative Learning
Computer Science Students' Use of the Internet for Academic Purposes: Difficulties and Learning Processes
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Ben-David Kolikant, Yifat; ma'ayan, Ze'ev – Computer Science Education, 2018
Higher-education students now have more alternatives for searching for information than previous generations had. The Internet is a vast ocean of information sources, albeit with diverse reliability and quality. In Web 2.0 platforms, any participant can be a content creator. This reality is challenging for both the instructors and the students. We…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Higher Education, Internet, Web 2.0 Technologies
Team-Based Peer Review as a Form of Formative Assessment--The Case of a Systems Analysis and Design Workshop
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Lavy, Ilana; Yadin, Aharon – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2010
The present study was carried out within a systems analysis and design workshop. In addition to the standard analysis and design tasks, this workshop included practices designed to enhance student capabilities related to non-technical knowledge areas, such as critical thinking, interpersonal and team skills, and business understanding. Each task…
Descriptors: Systems Analysis, Formative Evaluation, Management Information Systems, Grading
The Emergence of Events.
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Avrahami, Judith; Kareev, Yaakov – Cognition, 1994
Three experiments using university students explored what constitutes an event and what determines its boundaries. Results supported the hypothesis that sequences of stimuli repeating in different contexts are cut out to become cognitive entities ("things" with a beginning and an end) in their own right. Results suggest that the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012)
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International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers