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Ellis, Ainslie – 2001
The traditional form of collaborative learning has been via face-to-face groups working together. The online forum can provide a different collaborative learning environment, due to its student-centric, asynchronous, written form. As a result of an investigation into the differences between face-to-face and online asynchronous communication,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Conventional Instruction
Foell, Nelson A. – 1989
This study assessed the effect of an alternative delivery system using microcomputers. All 19 students enrolled in the University of Georgia's off-campus curriculum development course were assigned to the experimental group, and all 16 students taking the same course on campus were assigned to the control group. All students were vocational…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Fahy, Patrick J. – 2000
Online teaching technologies still have three main disadvantages: cost, complexity, and negative impacts on productivity. In many areas of Canada, cost is still a major factor affecting ownership and use of computers and other new technologies. Until online teaching technologies become as simple to use as telephones and new cars, they will…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems
Bednar, Anne K.; Charles, Michael T. – 1999
The goals at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) for preparation of pre-service teacher educators in educational media and technology include the development of pedagogical ability as well as technical knowledge and skills. Pedagogically, EMU faculty adopted the goal of teaching the students to use technology to facilitate a constructivist approach…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Distance Education
Urven, Lance E.; Yin, L. Roger; Bak, John D. – 1998
In fall 1997, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (UWW) provided Science and Technology in Society, a university general studies science literacy course, to advanced placement high school students at three local high schools, using a combination of live video presentations and World Wide Web (WWW) courseware. A total of 26 high school students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, Audiovisual Communications, College Students