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Download full textTom Neuschafer – Journal of Educators Online, 2025
Online instructors have identified several issues that must be addressed to facilitate better online learning experiences, including authentic experiential education, building community, technology for remote learning, and supporting learners. Online forums are often used by users to express their frustrations, feelings, jokes, and even…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
Tom Neuschafer – Journal of Educators Online, 2024
This research used qualitative netnography to examine the use of Duolingo German discussion boards among users of varying levels of engagement. The sample contained six participants of various levels of engagement. The criteria for selecting participants were based on usage counts in the discussion board community. This study aimed to examine…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German, Computer Software
Direct linkKerrigan, John; Andres, Debbie – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2022
Many undergraduate and graduate courses have been recently converted to fully remote offerings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even within the remote structure, courses vary in their frequency of synchronous and asynchronous meetings. Fostering collaboration through students' idea-sharing and supporting their learning is especially challenging in…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups
Eva A. Alfoldi – Journal of Education for Business, 2024
In the COVID-19 era, "Yellowdig" (an online discussion board with social media-like features) has increasingly risen to prominence in higher education. Reflecting on a multi-year experiment involving 14 international business and marketing courses, I argue that Yellowdig remains a valuable tool for learning even after returning to…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Interpersonal Relationship, Discussion Groups, Online Courses
Huntington, Heidi E. – Journal of Advertising Education, 2022
Visual bookmarking app Pinterest, known for its aspirational and consumptive qualities of users' "pinning" work, has recently made concerted forays into the online advertising and marketing space. At the same time, its visual and collaborative qualities offer unique potential for application in pedagogy. This paper describes a…
Descriptors: Social Media, Advertising, Teaching Methods, Computer Mediated Communication
Guo, Chen; Shea, Peter; Chen, Xiangdong – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Online discussions have become important educational activities through which collaborative learning and knowledge construction can be facilitated. This study explores the use of two online discussion tools, online discussion board and VoiceThread, for supporting online course discussion activities among a group of graduate students and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion, Cooperative Learning, Computer Software
K. Bret Staudt Willet; Hunhui Na – Online Learning, 2024
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has ignited debates regarding its potential benefits and detriments for education. Despite widespread discussions, insights into GenAI's impact on education have been limited because early studies have often been narrow in scope and focused on specific contexts. Therefore, the purpose of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Synchronous Communication, Web Sites
Chopra, Harshita; Lin, Yiwen; Samadi, Mohammad Amin; Cavazos, Jacqueline G.; Yu, Renzhe; Jaquay, Spencer; Nixon, Nia – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
Exploring students' discourse in academic settings over time can provide valuable insight into the evolution of learner engagement and participation in online learning. In this study, we propose an analytical framework to capture topics and the temporal progression of learner discourse. We employed a Contextualized Topic Modeling technique on…
Descriptors: Semantics, Computer Mediated Communication, Pandemics, COVID-19
Xi Lin; Ken Luterbach; Kristen H. Gregory; Sarah E. Sconyers – Online Learning, 2024
This study explored the impact of integrating ChatGPT into asynchronous online discussions. The analysis encompassed students' log data from Canvas and their perspectives on using ChatGPT. Results revealed a significant enhancement in overall discussion participation when ChatGPT is encouraged, emphasizing its potential as a catalyst for…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Computer Mediated Communication
Chenglu Li; Wanli Xing; Walter Leite – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
A discussion forum is a valuable tool to support student learning in online contexts. However, interactions in online discussion forums are sparse, leading to other issues such as low engagement and dropping out. Recent educational studies have examined the affordances of conversational agents (CA) powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion, Artificial Intelligence, Safety
Staudt Willet, K. Bret; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2020
The website Reddit has received scant attention from educational researchers despite the presence of numerous teaching-related subreddits that host thousands of threaded conversations. The purpose of this study was to provide an initial comparison of discussions occurring in several different affinity spaces on Reddit. Because of the lack of…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Social Media, Social Networks, Network Analysis
Chenglu Li; Wanli Xing; Walter Leite – Grantee Submission, 2022
A discussion forum is a valuable tool to support student learning in online contexts. However, interactions in online discussion forums are sparse, leading to other issues such as low engagement and dropping out. Recent educational studies have examined the affordances of conversational agents (CA) powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion, Artificial Intelligence
Durgungoz, Ahmet; Durgungoz, F. Canan – Learning Environments Research, 2022
In this study, we examined a mathematics teacher's communicative acts on an instant messaging tool, WhatsApp, and its role in creating a sustained learning environment between secondary-school students and a teacher in Turkey. The interactions of a mathematics teacher and his students (n = 38) over two years were explored. The WhatsApp group…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction
Knowles, Claire L. – L2 Journal, 2022
The increasing prevalence of students' use of Google Translate has been the catalyst for re-developing the language classroom. Through progressive adaptations, Google Translate has been integrated to help support meaningful language learning, academic rigor and intellectual curiosity. Five key steps form the foundation of the ADAPT approach:…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
Intercultural Learning through Chinese-American Telecollaboration: Results of a Song Sharing Project
Han Luo; Pan Gao – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This study reports on the results of a semester-long Chinese-American telecollaborative exchange via WeChat, in which students from China and the U.S. shared thematically similar songs in their respective languages and discussed relevant cultural topics that were suggested by the students. Various types of qualitative data collected from the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication, Computer Software, Group Discussion
