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Spaces and Their Social Frontiers: Using Community Dimensions to Distinguish between Teacher-Focused Hashtags on Twitter
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Greenhalgh, Spencer P. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study is to begin describing the variety of social spaces that have been created on Twitter to support teachers and to describe the specific ways in which they vary. In particular, I have focused on Regional Educational Twitter Hashtags (RETHs)--hashtags that group tweets related to education within particular geographic…
Descriptors: Social Media, Geographic Regions, Correlation, Computer Mediated Communication
Differences in Electronic Exchanges in Synchronous and Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication: The Effect of Culture as a Mediating Variable
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Angeli, Charoula; Schwartz, Neil H. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Two hundred and eighty undergraduates from universities in two countries were asked to read didactic material, and then think and write about potential solutions to an ill-defined problem. The writing was conducted within a synchronous or asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) environment. Asynchronous CMC took the form of email…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries
The Impact of WhatsApp Use on Success in Education Process
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Cetinkaya, Levent – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of WhatsApp use for education and determine the opinions of students towards the process. The study was designed in mixed research model which combines both qualitative and quantitative data. In the quantitative aspect of the study, quasi-experimental design, with a pretest-posttest control…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Technology Uses in Education
How Teachers Use and Manage Their Blogs? A Cluster Analysis of Teachers' Blogs in Taiwan
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Liu, Eric Zhi-Feng; Hou, Huei-Tse – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
The development of Web 2.0 has ushered in a new set of web-based tools, including blogs. This study focused on how teachers use and manage their blogs. A sample of 165 teachers' blogs in Taiwan was analyzed by factor analysis, cluster analysis and qualitative content analysis. First, the teachers' blogs were analyzed according to six criteria…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
The Development of a Content Analysis Model for Assessing Students' Cognitive Learning in Asynchronous Online Discussions
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Yang, Dazhi; Richardson, Jennifer C.; French, Brian F.; Lehman, James D. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a content analysis model for assessing students' cognitive learning in asynchronous online discussions. It adopted a fully mixed methods design, in which qualitative and quantitative methods were employed sequentially for data analysis and interpretation. Specifically, the design was a…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Factor Analysis, Data Analysis, Content Analysis
Knowledge Contribution in Virtual Communities: Accounting for Multiple Dimensions of Social Presence through Social Identity
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Shen, Kathy Ning; Yu, Angela Yan; Khalifa, Mohamed – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2010
Integrating social presence theory and social identity theory, this study brings system design and social influence aspects together to explain their joint effects on knowledge contribution in virtual communities (VCs). Different from most prior information systems (IS) research that adopts a uni-dimensional approach and restricts social presence…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Information Systems, Internet