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Shermak, Jeremy L.; Whipple, Kelsey N. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2020
We Love Weather is the fan community of The Weather Channel. Launched in 2016, We Love Weather aims to serve so-called "weather geeks" by providing exclusive and specialized weather content, as well as participatory and communal elements. This study proposes that We Love Weather is an "affinity space" where participants create,…
Descriptors: Weather, Discussion Groups, Asynchronous Communication, Popular Culture
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Kim, Ann Y.; Thacker, Ian – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2020
We examined asynchronous online discussion boards, specifically those that are unmediated by teacher figures, to identify characteristics of these spaces that support or constrain students as they seek help in mathematics. We analyzed 86 questions and 114 associated responses posted to two Khan Academy discussion boards centered around two related…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Mathematics Instruction, Help Seeking
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Trespalacios, Jesús; Uribe-Flórez, Lida J. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2020
The analysis of case studies is an important constructivist instructional strategy that shows potential for engaging students in asynchronous online discussions. However, little is known about the use of audio-based discussions to promote this type of analysis. Twenty-nine students from two sections enrolled in an online instructional design…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Instructional Design, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication
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Islam, Md. Kabirul; Sarker, Md. Fouad Hossain; Islam, M. Saiful – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2022
This empirical study is conducted in a blended learning setting of a technology-focused private university in Bangladesh to offer a model that could help attain a comprehensive goal of blended learning. The main objectives of this study are to examine course design in a blended learning setting, strategies adopted by the course teachers to…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Blended Learning, Higher Education, Models
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Graham, Deryn – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
The concept of time is a key issue incorporated in most educational theories, and the notion of time has been considered in different ways in diverse approaches, such as behaviourism, genetic epistemology, cultural psychology and didactic. In research leading to the development of a nine-stage Transnational Framework for E-Learning Technologies,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Processes, Time Factors (Learning), Time Perspective
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Enriquez, Judith Guevarra – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
It is possible that the pedagogical benefits of a discussion board or any asynchronous communicative tool may not be realised as inscribed in terms like "collaborative learning environment" or "discussion board" due to two things: first, as instructors, we focus on what the technology can do and should do and ignore "what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology
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Rockinson-Szapkiw, Amanda J. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2012
As higher education institutions enter the intense competition of the rapidly growing global marketplace of online education, the leaders within these institutions are challenged to identify factors critical for developing and for maintaining effective online courses. Computer-mediated communication (CMC) systems are considered critical to…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Online Courses, Performance Factors, Performance Technology
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Seufferheld, Manfredo J.; Scagnoli, Norma I. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
The last decade has seen a great variety in the ways in which instructors have incorporated the World Wide Web into their traditional classroom courses; however, this combination has not always translated into changes or improvements in teaching and learning. The real challenge has proved to be not the addition of web resources to the traditional…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Science Curriculum