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Cicco, Gina – Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
This article will review the importance of effective communication in fully online courses, to the extent that positive culture and climate are established, and healthy faculty-student relationships are cultivated. Online courses require instructors to utilize diverse pedagogical techniques in order to reach the student audience through…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Interpersonal Communication
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Parenti, Melissa A. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
With an increasing presence and continual adaptations related to distance learning, there is a recognized need for up-to-date research in the area of effectiveness of online education programs. More specifically, assessing the capacity to attain academic goals by use of asynchronous and synchronous web based tools within Learning Management…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Distance Education
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Swaminathan, Raji; Mulvihill, Thalia M. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
This paper is based on a qualitative study that investigated graduate student perspectives of online discussions in higher education courses. The data are drawn primarily from interviews and student journal entries. The study examined student experiences of online discussions from a "technorealist" perspective thereby taking into account…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication, Online Courses
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Bledsoe, Scott; Harmeyer, Dave – Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This paper provides qualitative student-centered research from an online Research Methodology course taught partly within the immersive, 3-D environment of Second Life with fifty-eight graduate psychology students for the purpose of suggesting a constructivist-based instruction model for immersive environments. A qualitative method approach was…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Web Based Instruction, Computer Simulation, Student Attitudes
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Knoll, Elisabeth; Berge, Zane – Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
This paper addresses the concept of blended learning, an approach that has been gaining popularity in recent years with the advancement of computer-mediated training solutions. It begins with an effort to define blended learning and a description of its historical context. A discussion of blended learning as a learner-centric approach follows,…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Delivery Systems, Computer Mediated Communication, Definitions
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Halloran, Margaret E. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
Course management software enables faculty members to learn one software package for web-based curriculum, assessment, synchronous and asynchronous discussions, collaborative work, multimedia and interactive resource development. There are as many as 109 different course management software packages on the market and several studies have evaluated…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Integrated Learning Systems, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology