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Agbo, Friday Joseph; Olaleye, Sunday Adewale; Sanusi, Ismaila Temitayo; Dada, Oluwaseun Alexander – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2021
The growth in education, research, and development in developing economies cannot be compared with their developed counterparts. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), which have played a key role in nations' socio-economic development, can leverage developing economies. The International Journal of Education and Development using…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Periodicals, Economic Development, Research and Development
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Lim, Janine; Hall, Barbara M.; Jeong, Allan C.; Freed, Shirley – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2017
This study explores the combination of course structure, prompt type, and characteristics of discussion posts and their relationships with intersubjectivity. A content analysis measured the intersubjectivity of peer responses by analyzing the interaction analysis model (IAM) phase of each post and comparing with the IAM phase of the previous post.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Content Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Statistical Analysis
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Cela, Karina L.; Sicilia, Miguel Ángel; Sánchez, Salvador – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
Teachers and instructional designers frequently incorporate collaborative learning approaches into their e-learning environments. A key factor of collaborative learning that may affect learner outcomes is whether the collaborative groups are assigned project topics randomly or based on a shared interest in the topic. This is a particularly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
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Befus, Madelaine – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2016
This paper will provide a methodology and progress report from a multivocal thematic synthesis being conducted on an extensive, diverse body of empirical studies. The study data includes a corpus of peer-reviewed empirical literature sharing a common reference published in English between 2000 and 2014. In this study, data to be synthesized share…
Descriptors: Methods, Grounded Theory, Research Projects, Teaching Methods
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Chadha, Anita – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
E-learning has become one of the primary ways to deliver education around the globe. Research is keeping pace with the use of various techno-aids as educators evaluate how to effectively use these aids in an ever-changing e-classroom. Adding to this body of work, and in assessing the effectiveness of techno-tools, this study evaluates meaningful…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Group Discussion, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
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Vinagre Laranjeira, Margarita – Research-publishing.net, 2016
In this paper we explore the data gathered from a group of nine in-service teachers who were trained online to become future telecollaborative teachers. Participants from different countries worked in two small groups in a wiki designed specially to facilitate discussion and collaboration. Tasks included reading and reviewing articles on…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction, Teacher Collaboration
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Wu, Sheng-Yi; Hou, Huei-Tse; Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Liu, Eric Zhi-Feng – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2013
Both asynchronous and synchronous discussions have advantages and limitations for online learning. This study conducts an empirical analysis of these discussion activities while applying the proposed Seamless Online Learning Integrated Discussion (SOLID) system, which can instantly integrate Facebook's asynchronous discussion function with the MSN…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Active Learning, Student Projects, Student Behavior
Gorsky, Paul; Caspi, Avner; Blau, Ina – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2012
This study compares dialogic behavior in asynchronous course forums from blended learning environments with "non"-mandatory student participation at a campus-based college and at a distance education, Open University. The goal is to document similarities and differences in students' and instructors' dialogic behavior that occur in two similar…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Student Participation, Content Analysis, Distance Education
Toom, Anna – Online Submission, 2013
In this work, a new method of teaching psychology based on the union of scientific, artistic, and information-technological knowledge is presented. The author teaches Cognitive Development in Early Childhood analyzing Anton Chekhov's short story "Grisha" and uses both traditional and computerized instructional methodology. In the authors' two…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Maceviciute, Elena; Borg, Martin; Kuzminiene, Ramune; Konrad, Katie – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: Our aim is to compare the advantages and problems of e-book acquisition identified in research literature to those experienced by two Swedish university libraries. Method: A literature review was used to identify the main issues related to acquisition of e-books by academic libraries. The data for comparison were collected through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Learning
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Condon, Conna; Valverde, Raul – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2014
A common approach for demonstrating learning in online classrooms is through submittal of research essays of a discussion topic followed by classroom participation. Issues arose at an online campus of a university regarding the originality and quality of critical thinking in the original submittals. Achievement of new course objectives oriented to…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
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Ke, Fengfeng; Kwak, Dean – Computers & Education, 2013
This mixed-method study examined whether online learning interaction participation, perception, and learning satisfaction would be consistent across varied age and ethnicity groups. Data were collected from students enrolled in 28 online courses via content analysis with online interaction transcripts, structural equation modeling with the…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Satisfaction, Transcripts (Written Records), Age Differences
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Hussein-Farraj, Rania; Barak, Miri; Dori, Yehudit Judy – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2012
This study examined the development of two Distance Learning (DL) courses and their effect on students' perceptions and learning experiences. Our study included about 260 science and engineering graduate students. Among them, 105 students were divided into two research groups: on-campus students (N=70) and DL students (N=35). These two groups…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Wu, Longkai; Looi, Chee-Kit – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
Recent research has emphasized the importance of reflection for students in intelligent learning environments. This study tries to investigate whether agent prompts, acting as scaffolding, can promote students' reflection when they act as tutor through teaching the agent tutee in a learning-by-teaching environment. Two types of agent prompts are…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Prompting, Reflection, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Bai, Hua – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2012
Facilitating students' critical thinking in asynchronous discussions is important in online learning environments. Since students need to be self-regulated in online learning, the instructors are expected to scaffold students by providing structure and guidance. This paper discusses critical inquiry in two groups of students' online discussions.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Discourse Analysis, Student Surveys, Asynchronous Communication
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