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Christopher Russell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Online courses have become an important part of a student's academic career. The variety and number of online course offerings grow each year. Unfortunately, there are a few drawbacks to current online courses, including differences between success rates of general education courses and their face-to-face counterparts. Current research indicates…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, STEM Education, Outcomes of Education, Interpersonal Relationship
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Gallegos, Monica L. – Communication Teacher, 2020
Courses: Interpersonal Communication; Relational Communication. Objectives: Students who complete this activity should be able to: (1) understand the staircase model of relationships; (2) explain how social media has influenced the ways in which relationships develop and dissolve; (3) discuss advantages and limitations of the staircase model; and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Social Media, Models, Communication Strategies
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Kumar, Vikas; Nanda, Pooja – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2019
Higher Education Institutes across the world have started using social media to reach out to the prospective students as well as to interact with current students and alumni. Social media improves the communication on one hand and helps in promotional and development activities on the other. Present work explores the integration of social media in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Media, Telecommunications, College Students
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Agbo, Friday Joseph; Olawumi, Olayemi; Oyelere, Solomon Sunday; Kolog, Emmanuel Awuni; Olaleye, Sunday Adewale; Agjei, Richard O.; Ukpabi, Dandison C.; Yunusa, Abdullahi Abubakar; Gbadegeshin, Saheed A.; Awoniyi, Luqman; Erinle, Kehinde O.; Mogaji, Emmanuel; Silas, Aziaka Duabar; Nwachukwu, Chijioke E.; Olawuni, Adedayo – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2020
Social media has become an important platform where users share, comment, discuss, communicate, interact, and play games. Aside from using social media for personal, social, and business purposes, the use of social media has gained attention, particularly for collaborative learning in the educational sector. This paper examines the role of social…
Descriptors: Social Media, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
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Yeh, Ellen; Mitric, Svetlana – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
This study applied pedagogically-focused project design by using Instagram as a platform to investigate how the use of social media such as Instagram in a multimodal digital storytelling model could bridge the skills English language learners (ELLs) learn in the classroom to out-of-school literacy practices. The study applied the five learning…
Descriptors: Social Media, Telecommunications, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
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Worthington, Paisley; Reniers, Jennifer; Lackeyram, Dale; Dawson, John – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Research on the use of blogs in higher education suggests that students who blog as part of a course requirement demonstrate increased reflection, heightened feelings of connection, and increased course-related knowledge. Blogging provides a promising medium for students to engage in reflection on their participation in a cooperative education…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Diaries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Kayode, Bakare Kazeem – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Rapid development of communication tools has brought about contentious issues in communication management in distance learning (DL) programs. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between communication management indicators, namely, communication practices, communication tools, and students' cognitive engagement in distance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Distance Education, Learner Engagement
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Trespalacios, Jesús H.; Perkins, Ross A. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
Individual strategies to increase response rate and survey completion have been extensively researched. Recently, efforts have been made to investigate a combination of interventions to yield better response rates for web-based surveys. This study examined the effects of four different survey invitation conditions on response rate. From a large…
Descriptors: Response Rates (Questionnaires), Online Surveys, Focus Groups, College Students
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Baytiyeh, Hoda – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2018
Mobile technologies are all-pervasive in the current digital generation, and college students rely on their mobile phones to communicate on a daily basis. In the midst of the myriad of applications available to download on the mobile, some tools have become more well-known and more often adopted than others. An example of such a tool is WhatsApp,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, College Students
Varner, Brenda – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The original goal of this project was to build a peer e-mentoring program for parents and measure the effect of the program on persistence. In spite of strong mentor participation, two terms of focused recruiting did not attract mentees. This sparked the question of why those who had successfully navigated the higher education system thought a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mentors, Computer Mediated Communication
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Nielsen, W.; Hoban G.; Hyland, C. J. T. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2017
Students can now digitally construct their own representations of scientific concepts using a variety of modes including writing, diagrams, 2-D and 3-D models, images or speech, all of which communicate meaning. In this study, final-year chemistry students studying a pharmacology subject created a ''blended media'' digital product as an assignment…
Descriptors: Pharmacology, Student Attitudes, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Nitza, Davidivitch; Roman, Yavich – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
In recent years, there has been a significant rise in the use of technological means in general and in academic teaching in particular. Many programs have been developed that include computer-assisted teaching, as well as online courses at educational institutions. The current study focuses on WhatsApp messaging and its use in academia. Studies…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Communication Strategies
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Sinclair, Christine – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This study brings together three student comments and three theoretical constructs taken from Bakhtin's (1981) collection of essays "The Dialogic Imagination", written in the 1930s. Bakhtin's concepts of the chronotope, interanimation and the monologic provide lenses on a shifting student perspective on authoritative writing in…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Student Attitudes, Essays
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Dobbins, Chelsea; Denton, Philip – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
This paper is a report of an investigation in which mobile technologies were used during large lecture-type sessions in tandem with the Textwall™ software. This online program is able to receive and present messages from students' devices that the lecturer may then share. It also can be used to collect student votes on multiple-choice questions,…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Lecture Method, Large Group Instruction
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Premadasa, H. K. Salinda; Meegama, R. G. N. – Research in Learning Technology, 2016
Short messaging service (SMS) is perhaps the most popular mobile technology prevalent among students in higher education due to its ubiquitous nature and the capability of two-way communication. However, a major limitation in two-way text messaging is sending back a part of received data with the reply message. This limitation results in users of…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, College Students, Technology Uses in Education
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