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Abdulkadir Palanci; Rabia Meryem Yilmaz; Zeynep Turan – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study aims to reveal the main trends and findings of the studies examining the use of learning analytics in distance education. For this purpose, journal articles indexed in the SSCI index in the Web of Science database were reviewed, and a total of 400 journal articles were analysed within the scope of this study. The systematic review…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Distance Education, Educational Trends, Periodicals
Jena, Ananta Kumar; Chakraborty, Sumanta – Online Submission, 2018
The study aimed to assess the relationship among epistemological beliefs, learning styles, learning approaches and achievement of the University students. One hundred University students participated and responded the Epistemological Belief Questionnaires (EVQ) and Learning Style Inventory (LSI), and MANOVA used to find out the relationship among…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Cognitive Style, Learning Processes
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Zonca, Joshua; Coricelli, Giorgio; Polonio, Luca – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
In our everyday life, we often need to anticipate the potential occurrence of events and their consequences. In this context, the way we represent contingencies can determine our ability to adapt to the environment. However, it is not clear how agents encode and organize available knowledge about the future to react to possible states of the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Individual Differences, Task Analysis, Futures (of Society)
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Chang, Chi-Cheng; Chou, Pao-Nan; Liang, Chaoyan – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of the ePortfolio-based learning approach (ePBLA) on knowledge sharing and creation with 92 college students majoring in electrical engineering as the participants. Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) with a covariance of pretest on knowledge sharing and creation was conducted…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Knowledge Management, Information Dissemination
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Rusli, Muhammad; Negara, I. Komang Rinartha Yasa – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
The effectiveness of a learning depends on four main elements, they are content, desired learning outcome, instructional method and the delivery media. The integration of those four elements can be manifested into a learning module which is called multimedia learning or learning by using multimedia. In learning context by using computer-based…
Descriptors: Animation, Multimedia Instruction, Cognitive Style, Programming
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Mejia, Carolina; Florian, Beatriz; Vatrapu, Ravi; Bull, Susan; Gomez, Sergio; Fabregat, Ramon – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2017
Existing tools aim to detect university students with early diagnosis of dyslexia or reading difficulties, but there are not developed tools that let those students better understand some aspects of their difficulties. In this paper, a dashboard for visualizing and inspecting early detected reading difficulties and their characteristics, called…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Dyslexia, Visualization, Metacognition
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Camacho-Miñano, María-del-Mar; del Campo, Cristina – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Many university lecturers are encouraged to implement innovative teaching tools and methodologies such as clickers in order to create an interactive learning environment and improve student learning, but its performance must be evaluated. The aim of this paper is to test empirically the impact of the use of clickers on students' learning…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Student Motivation, Classroom Techniques, Feedback (Response)
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Cheng, Kun-Hung; Hou, Huei-Tse; Wu, Sheng-Yi – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
In the social interactions among individuals of learning communities, including those individuals engaged in peer assessment activities, emotion may be a key factor in learning. However, research regarding the emotional response of learners in online peer assessment activities is relatively scarce. Detecting learners' emotion when they make…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Peer Evaluation, Emotional Response
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Kyndt, Eva; Dochy, Filip; Struyven, Katrien; Cascallar, Eduardo – Educational Psychology, 2012
This study starts with investigating the relation of perceived workload, motivation for learning and working memory capacity (WMC) with students' approaches to learning. Secondly, this study investigates if differences exist between different student profiles concerning their approach to the learning and the influence of workloads thereon. Results…
Descriptors: Motivation, Short Term Memory, Multivariate Analysis, Profiles
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Hora, Matthew T. – Review of Higher Education, 2014
This study utilizes theory from situated cognition to investigate faculty beliefs about student learning and their influence on teaching decisions. Results of interviews with and observations of 56 science and math faculty found that the two most common beliefs are: (a) students learn best through repeated practice, and (b) students have different…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Decision Making, Teaching Methods
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Ellis, Robert A. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Evaluating the quality of inquiry using technology in blended contexts at university is a complex phenomenon as there are many variables which could account for qualitative variation in the experience. This study looks at reasons for qualitative variation in the university student experience of inquiry using technologies. It considers approaches…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Blended Learning, College Students, Educational Quality
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Tran, Van Dat; Lewis, Ramon – International Education Studies, 2012
This study investigates the effects of jigsaw cooperative learning on the achievement and knowledge retention of 80 final-year Vietnamese mathematics students, as well as reporting their attitudes toward this form of learning. These tertiary students were divided into two matched groups of 40 to be taught by the same lecturer. In the experimental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, College Students, Academic Achievement
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de la Fuente, Jesus; Sander, Paul; Justicia, Fernando; Pichardo, M. Carmen; Garcia-Berben, Ana B. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2010
Introduction: The main goal of this study is to evaluate the psychometric and assessment features of the Scale for the "Assessment of the Teaching-Learning Process, Student Version" (ATLP-S), for both practical and theoretical reasons. From an applied point of view, this self-report measurement instrument has been designed to encourage…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Participation, Validity, Measures (Individuals)
O'Malley, Patricia Tenowich; Sonnenschein, Susan – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this study was to integrate domain-learning theory and goal theory to investigate the learning processes, achievement goals, social goals, and achievement of 141 college students. Cluster-analytic procedures were used to categorize participants at different levels of expertise based on their responses on knowledge, interest, and…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, College Students, Grade Point Average, Goal Orientation
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Theodosiou, Argiris; Mantis, Konstantinos; Papaioannou, Athanasios – Educational Research and Reviews, 2008
The present study examined age-group differences in students' self-reports of metacognitive activity in physical education settings. Five hundred and ten students of public elementary, junior and senior high school provided self-reports concerning the metacognitive processes they use during physical education lessons, their goal orientations and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Metacognition, Multivariate Analysis, Public Schools