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Hendry, Gillian; Wiggins, Sally; Anderson, Tony – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2016
As mobile phone technology becomes more advanced, so too does its presence in everyday life. Research has shown, for instance, that students are using their mobile phones in classroom settings, a practice that holds both potential advantages and disadvantages. In group work, these interactions may have consequences for group dynamics in that…
Descriptors: Interaction, Problem Based Learning, Handheld Devices, Tutorial Programs
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Chien, Hung-Ju; Tann, D. B. – Educational Gerontology, 2017
The aim of the Multigenerational Learning Program (MLP) is to increase multigenerational interactions through activities, which will help all learners including middle aged to older adults, university students, and children to improve multigenerational understanding, and increase their positive attitudes toward each other. The MLP activities were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intergenerational Programs, Participant Characteristics, Learning Activities
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Ioannou, Andri; Vasiliou, Christina; Zaphiris, Panayiotis; Arh, Tanja; Klobucar, Tomaž; Pipan, Matija – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This exploratory case study aims to examine how students benefit from a multimodal learning environment while they engage in collaborative problem-based activity in a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) university course. For 12 weeks, 30 students, in groups of 5-7 each, participated in weekly face-to-face meetings and online interactions.…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Blended Learning, Problem Based Learning, Case Studies
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Ingram, Patreese; Chaudhary, Anil Kumar; Jones, Walter Terrell – College Student Journal, 2014
One of the fastest growing sub-groups of students of color at today's colleges and universities is the bi-racial/multiracial population. How one identifies themselves and is identified by others can impact biracial students' college experience and the groups to which biracial students interact. Some biracial students come to college from families…
Descriptors: Campuses, Multiracial Persons, Interaction, Interaction Process Analysis
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Thanh Pham, Thi Hong – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
This study aimed to investigate the perceptions, interactions and behaviours of different-ability college students when they worked on different types of assessments. Two classes of 145 Vietnamese college students participated in this three-month study. The students were assigned to mixed-ability groups, each of which consisted of five students.…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, High Achievement, Student Projects, Group Activities
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Luo, Yi; Sun, Yan; Strobel, Johannes – Journal of International Students, 2013
This study examined how cultural background (collectivism vs. individualism) affects motor skill learning in a dyadic cooperative learning environment. The research context of this study was Nintendo™ Wii Tennis. Twenty college students from a Midwestern university participated in the study, among whom half were from an individualistic culture…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Collectivism, Individualism, Cooperative Learning
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Castano-Munoz, Jonatan; Sancho-Vinuesa, Teresa; Duart, Josep M. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Online interaction is considered to be a key aspect of effective e-learning and improved academic achievement. However, few studies have examined how effectiveness varies with the degree of interaction intensity. Using data for 17,090 students from three Catalan universities, in this paper we study the productivity associated with five different…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interaction, Electronic Learning, Evidence
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Zheng, Lanqin; Yang, Kaicheng; Huang, Ronghuai – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study proposes a new method named the IIS-map-based method for analyzing interactions in face-to-face collaborative learning settings. This analysis method is conducted in three steps: firstly, drawing an initial IIS-map according to collaborative tasks; secondly, coding and segmenting information flows into information items of IIS; thirdly,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Program Effectiveness, Research Methodology
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Topcu, Abdullah – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
This study verified the efficacy of the intentional repetition technique in improving interaction in asynchronous online discussions by taking into account the learning styles of the participants. A conceptual framework served for the development of the technique, which conceptualises efficient and cohesive interaction on a continuum of process…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Cognitive Style, Interaction
Hosman, Lawrence A.; Tardy, Charles H. – 1981
A review of the literature on reciprocal self-disclosure indicates that scholars have limited their investigations to one aspect of disclosure--intimacy--while recent research suggests that disclosure is a multidimensional phenomenon. A study was conducted to assess the possibility of reciprocation of intimacy, amount, and valence (positive or…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Disclosure, Higher Education
Radcliffe, Terrence R. – 1974
This study observed the communication behavior within ad hoc and established groups and compared the two types of groups on several indexes of interaction patterns. Ad hoc groups were individuals who had no in-group activity with each other prior to the experiment. Established groups were individuals who had nine 50-minute sessions of ingroup…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Research, Group Dynamics
Spear, Stephen J.; Miller, Larry D. – 1982
A study explored the relationship between the functional communication patterns occurring in conflict and post conflict impressions of relational concern. The first part of the study involved the development and testing of an instrument to measure perceived relational concern, while the second part investigated whether varying styles of functional…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Robey, Daniel – Peabody Journal of Education, 1975
This paper explores the college classroom as a cybernetic system and the implications of such a conceptualization for college teaching. (MK)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, College Students, Cybernetics
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Douglas, William – Human Communication Research, 1984
Provides evidence that high and low self-monitors are distinguishable not only by their initial interactions but also by their cognitive summaries of these sequences. Found that students who are high self-monitors appear to be more linguistically competent, in part because their scripted understanding of appropriate conversation is more extensive.…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Higher Education, Interaction
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Shaw, Mark R. – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1983
Examines the taken-for-granted assumptions students make about selection interviews and how these assumptions affect the interview process. (PD)
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Employment Interviews, Higher Education
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