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Tegos, Stergios; Demetriadis, Stavros – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Research in computer-supported collaborative learning has indicated that conversational agents can be pedagogically beneficial when used to scaffold students' online discussions. In this study, we investigate the impact of an agile conversational agent that triggers student dialogue by making interventions based on the academically productive talk…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Prior Learning, Intervention, Outcomes of Education
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Lekka, Foteini; Efstathiou, Giorgos; Kalantzi-Azizi, Anastasia – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2015
The aim of the current study is to investigate the impact of counselling-based training on online peer support by comparing the interventions of trained peer supporters as opposed to non-trained peer supporters. Two independent raters analysed 746 support posts published during a period of one year at the "Student to Student" online peer…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Peer Relationship, Intervention, Counseling Services
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Pellas, Nikolaos; Peroutseas, Efstratios – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
While pedagogical and technological affordances of three-dimensional (3D) multiuser virtual worlds in various educational disciplines are largely well-known, a study about their effect on high school students' engagement in introductory programming courses is still lacking. This case study presents students' opinions about their participation in a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Educational Games, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment
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Fauville, Géraldine; Lantz-Andersson, Annika; Säljö, Roger – Research-publishing.net, 2012
Environmental education (EE) is now clearly specified in educational standards in many parts of the world, and at the same time the view of language learning is moving towards a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) strategy, to make English lessons more relevant and attractive for students (Eurydice, 2006). In this respect,…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Social Media, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Papanikolaou, Kyparisia; Boubouka, Maria – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2011
In this paper we investigate the value of collaboration scripts for promoting metacognitive knowledge in a project-based e-learning context. In an empirical study, 82 students worked individually and in groups on a project using the e-learning environment MyProject, in which the life cycle of a project is inherent. Students followed a particular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Case Method (Teaching Technique), College Students
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Patriarcheas, Kiriakos; Xenos, Michalis – Computers & Education, 2009
This article presents a study carried out in the area of distance learning electronic forums. Based on the relevant bibliographic review, electronic forums are increasingly becoming part of the learning process. The specific study was stimulated by previous works relevant to the modelling of the behaviour of IT students at Hellenic Open University…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Program Effectiveness, Discussion Groups, Models