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Solorio, Christian D.; Gire, Elizabeth; Roundy, David – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has made conducting in-person research a health risk for interviewers and participants. Near the start of the pandemic, many universities pivoted to emergency remote teaching where courses were delivered remotely in observance of safety guidelines. The safety guidelines also necessitated that research be done remotely. We…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Honeychurch, Sarah; Patrick, Fiona – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2018
This paper describes a participatory online culture--Connected Learning Massive Open Online Collaboration (CLMOOC)--and asks how its ethos of reciprocity and creative playfulness occurs. By analysing Twitter interactions over a four-week period, we conclude that this is due to the supportive nature of participants, who describe themselves as…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Large Group Instruction, Online Courses
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Luzón, María José – Written Communication, 2017
Blogs provide an open space for scholars to share information, communicate about their research, and reach a diversified audience. Posts in academic blogs are usually hybrid texts where various genres are connected and recontextualized; yet little research has examined how these genres function together to support scholars' activity. The purpose…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Computer Mediated Communication, Researchers
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Klein, Emily J.; Taylor, Monica – Studying Teacher Education, 2017
This self-study examines our use of video with a cohort of preservice teachers as a means to address the challenges we face as teacher educators who are working with candidates in extensive clinical practice. We came to video as a nuanced way to discuss and make meaning of complex practice and as a means of bridging theory and practice. We found…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Video Technology, Teacher Educators, Educational Technology
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Ghadirian, Hajar; Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
This study explored patterns of e-moderating behaviour students performed when they were assigned as peer moderators of asynchronous online discussions in a reciprocal manner. Eighty-four students from an undergraduate blended course were observed during a 7-week-long online discussions. Using quantitative content analysis peer moderators'…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Computer Mediated Communication, Student Behavior, Asynchronous Communication
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Charalampidi, Marina; Hammond, Michael – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the process of analysing online discussion and argue for the merits of mixed methods. Much research of online participation and e-learning has been either message-focused or person-focused. The former covers methodologies such as content and discourse analysis, the latter interviewing and surveys.…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology
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Edwards, Richard – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
Openness has a long genealogy in education. Whether through the use of post, radio, television and digital technologies, extending learning opportunities to more and a wider range of people has been a significant aspect of educational history. Transcending barriers to learning has been promoted as the means of opening educational opportunities in…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Technology, Educational Opportunities, Open Source Technology
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Costley, Jamie; Lange, Christopher – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2016
Understanding the relationship between social presence and critical thinking is useful for gaining insight into the interaction and discourse of learners online. Further study of how these two presences interact is important because research has shown a wide variety of relationships, both positive and negative, between social presence and critical…
Descriptors: Correlation, Interpersonal Relationship, Critical Thinking, Electronic Learning
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Gray, Colin M.; Howard, Craig D. – Journal of Learning Design, 2015
"Designerly Talk in Non-Pedagogical Social Spaces" (Gray and Howard, 2014) is a paper on a study that was conducted as an early attempt to understand the kinds of talk students engaged in outside of the formal curriculum in student-run communities that enhanced their design learning. While the paper has only been available for a…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Interaction
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Vivakaran, Mangala Vadivu; Maraimalai, Neelamalar – Gender and Education, 2017
The Constitution of India ensures equal treatment to all its citizens without any discrimination. On the contrary, the patriarchal roots of the Indian society have subjected women to experience severe inequalities. This has resulted in a wide gender gap, which has been perceived to affect all the facets of a woman's life. The field of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Social Media, Training
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Satar, H. Muge; Akcan, Sumru – Language Learning & Technology, 2018
Participation in online communities is an increasing need for future language teachers and their professional development. Through such participation, they can experience and develop an awareness of the behaviors required to facilitate their future learners' participation in online learning. This article investigates participation, interaction…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Gu, Xiaoqing; Wang, Huawen; Mason, Jon – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Numerous studies have recognized collaboration as an effective way of learning. When collaboration involves students from different cultural backgrounds, a question arises: "Will cultural differences influence the manner in which roles are adopted within collaborative learning?" In this study, a correlation analysis was used to explore…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Correlation, Cultural Influences, Cross Cultural Studies
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Gray, Colin M.; Howard, Craig D. – Journal of Learning Design, 2014
Students live and work in worlds where virtual communities, such as those created via social network sites (e.g. Facebook) may interplay with their formal learning, but scholars of design pedagogy know little about how these spaces can support design learning. In this study, we describe how a set of informal communications, encapsulated in five…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Interaction
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Moorefield-Lang, Heather – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
Makerspaces and accompanying technologies are exciting new services being offered in libraries. However, these come with their own challenges and successes. Training for maker learning locations continues to be difficult to obtain. Inservice librarians rely on peers in the field and online resources for their training. Most preservice librarians…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Librarians, Libraries, Library Education
Agrawal, Akshay; Venkatraman, Jagadish; Leonard, Shane; Paepcke, Andreas – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
In Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), struggling learners often seek help by posting questions in discussion forums. Unfortunately, given the large volume of discussion in MOOCs, instructors may overlook these learners' posts, detrimentally impacting the learning process and exacerbating attrition. In this paper, we present YouEDU, an…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Distance Education, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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