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Criswell, Chad – Teaching Music, 2012
There was a time, not so long ago, when having a website for a teacher's music program was considered cutting-edge. But today, over 40 years after the birth of the Internet, everyone lives in an age of instant information. New online services and Internet technologies have changed more than just the interaction between teacher, student, and…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Internet, Music Education, Computer Mediated Communication
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Powell, D.; Dixon, M. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2011
The recent increase in short messaging system (SMS) text messaging, often using abbreviated, non-conventional "textisms" (e.g. "2nite"), in school-aged children has raised fears of negative consequences of such technology for literacy. The current research used a paradigm developed by Dixon and Kaminska, who showed that exposure to phonetically…
Descriptors: Spelling, Adults, Error Patterns, Error Analysis (Language)
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Kearns, Lorna R.; Frey, Barbara A. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2010
Communication, collaboration and community development are processes that contribute to student satisfaction and learning in online courses. This paper describes a study that investigated how campus and distance graduate students in a library science program communicated with one another outside the official boundaries of their courses. We…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, Distance Education, Online Courses
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Jenks, Christopher Joseph – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2009
There has been extensive reporting on the interactional characteristics of multi-participant text-based chat rooms. In these chat rooms there are several students typing at the same time, often on more than one topic. As a result, it is not uncommon to see multiple overlapping utterances. Despite these communicative challenges, research suggests…
Descriptors: Cues, Computer Mediated Communication, Internet, Teleconferencing
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Lin, Yi-Mei; Laffey, James – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2006
This study investigated how different tools differentially mediate the way groups interact and how the differential tool use and interactivity influence interdependence in online collaborative activity. Activity Theory is used as a framework to examine and explain computer-mediated interactions among students during group work. The findings reveal…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics, Computer Mediated Communication
Xin, Cindy; Feenberg, Andrew – Journal of Distance Education, 2006
This article elaborates a model for understanding pedagogy in online educational forums. The model identifies four key components. Intellectual engagement describes the foreground cognitive processes of collaborative learning. Communication processes operating in the background accumulate an ever richer store of shared understandings that enable…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
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Arnold, Julie; Kaske, Neal K. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
A quantitative study of a university chat reference service (online synchronous) addresses the following research questions: (1) What types of questions are being asked? (2) Who is asking the questions of the service? and (3) Did the customers get correct answers to their questions? All the transcripts (351) from January through August 2002 were…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Computer Mediated Communication, User Needs (Information), Communication Research
Campos, Milton N.; Laferriere, Therese; Lapointe, Judith M. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2005
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the method of meaning implication discourse analysis can be applied in the context of online collaborative reflective practice of student teachers. The method was developed to identify knowledge building in networked contexts. It derives from the model of meaning implication developed by Piaget,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis, Student Teachers, Schematic Studies