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Cara Jane Zimon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this Action Research study was to examine, understand, strengthen, and improve how virtual platforms can be used to support the challenges novice teachers face. This document will outline the study's objective for collecting data within the initial stages of this action research study. By fostering deeper relationships between…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Communities of Practice
Agustí Canals; Josep Cobarsí-Morales; Eva Ortoll – Online Learning, 2025
The idea of social capital as the value obtainable from an individual's social relationships has been used to study many organizational and social settings, but rarely virtual environments. We used data from an online higher education institution to examine how an individual's social capital derived from her position in the social structure…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Capital, Academic Achievement, Social Structure
Chalu Iila Harris-Adams – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many students who enroll in online universities will never graduate. Attrition in higher education is accepted and expected; however, in exclusively online programs, it is prolific, with more than 80% of those students who begin an online program leaving before graduating. It is well known in the academic literature that isolation is related to…
Descriptors: Social Media, Online Courses, Communities of Practice, Distance Education
Teachers' Virtual Communities of Practice: A Strong Response in Times of Crisis or Just Another Fad?
Ghamrawi, Norma – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived effectiveness of a virtual community of practice (vCoP) designed to support knowledge and expertise sharing between K-12 teachers during COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, it aimed at exploring the potential of such vCoPs in delivering effective professional development, in general, and during…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication
Ahmad, Razzaq; Mehmood, Sheikh Tariq; Ijaz, Safeer – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2023
With the use of technology, students can store, share, and record what they learned in a given session or day of remote learning. This study aimed to assess distance learners' abilities in digital literacy by examining their attitudes, concepts, and methods. The quantitative descriptive survey research method was used. For this purpose, 95…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Higher Education, Private Colleges, Likert Scales
García-Martínez, Inmaculada; Tadeu, Pedro; Montenegro-Rueda, Marta; Fernández-Batanero, José María – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
Teacher collaboration through networking needs to be promoted due to its positive effects on the world of teaching. Teaching collaboration in virtual environments affects the professional learning of teachers in their initial and in-service training, being potentially beneficial for instructional processes. The purpose of this paper is to know…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Social Networks, Distance Education
Dziubaniuk, Olga; Ivanova-Gongne, Maria; Nyholm, Monica – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2023
Higher education institutions may adopt various approaches to the pedagogic principles and methods used in teaching sustainable development in business and marketing courses. These methods can include the utilisation of digital technologies and online communication to facilitate distance learning and fast access to relevant information. Changes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development, Business Administration Education, Marketing
Ting Wang; Majid Ghasemy – SAGE Open, 2025
With the development of information and communication technology, virtual mobility, as an approach to internationalising education, allows students to receive cross-border education without going abroad through online educational interactions. Additionally, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates the development of virtual mobility, and…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, International Education, Distance Education, Computer Simulation
Mohamed M. Mostafa – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Interactive Learning Environments (ILE) is a leading international journal in the design and use of interactive learning environments. In this study we conduct a comprehensive bibliometric analysis spanning three decades to objectively examine the journal's impactful authors, citation patterns, collaboration networks and emerging trends.…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Network Analysis, Developing Nations, Developed Nations
Christine Greenhow; K. Bret Staudt Willet; Sarah Galvin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Social media use has spiked around the world during the COVID-19 global pandemic as people reach out for news, information, social connections, and support in their daily lives. Past work on professional learning networks (PLNs) has shown that teachers also use social media to find supports for their teaching and ongoing professional development.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Kevin Arnold – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the relationship between the use of collaborative technology, video-facilitated observation and feedback, and virtual professional development and coaching and levels of collective teacher efficacy. The study used a questionnaire to survey 547 coaches, content specialists, and district…
Descriptors: Role Theory, Computer Mediated Communication, Faculty Development, Coaching (Performance)
Quong, Jennifer; Snider, Sharla L.; Early, Jody – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2018
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a closed social media platform as an online tool to facilitate interactions among students and faculty participating in online and hybrid courses at a public university in North Texas (n = 330). Survey methods were used to measure undergraduate and graduate students' perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Blended Learning, Online Courses, Social Media
Marc Beardsley; Laia Albó; Pablo Aragón; Davinia Hernández-Leo – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
To identify factors that can contribute toward supporting educator adoption of digital technologies beyond the emergency remote teaching response to COVID-19, we investigated how teachers' motivation and abilities related to the use of digital technologies for teaching changed since the onset of the pandemic. Two surveys and interviews were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education
Ghadirian, Hajar; Salehi, Keyvan; Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd – American Journal of Distance Education, 2018
An ego network is an individual's social network relationships with core members. In this study, the ego network parameters in online discussion spaces of high- and low-performing students were compared. The extent to which students' ego networks changed over the course were also analyzed. Participation in 7 weeks of online discussions were…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion, High Achievement, Low Achievement
Tretyakova, Tatyana V.; Prokopiev, Mikhail S.; Goncharova, Svetlana V.; Karpova, Natalya A.; Ilina, Tatyana S. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
The relevance of the study is due to the problem of finding optimal solutions for organizing training sessions, the need to form the personality of a teacher in a difficult social and pedagogical situation. The leading research method is a pedagogical experiment on the organization of distance learning for students, the method of theoretical…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Pandemics, COVID-19, Teaching Methods