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Kukkonen, Jari; Dillon, Patrick; Kärkkäinen, Sirpa; Hartikainen-Ahia, Anu; Keinonen, Tuula – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
Scaffolding helps the novice to accomplish a task goal or solve a problem that otherwise would be beyond unassisted efforts. Scaffolding firstly aims to support the learner in accomplishing the task and secondly in learning from the task and improving future performance. This study has examined pre-service teachers' experiences of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Goldstein, Olzan; Peled, Yehuda – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2016
The study examines pedagogical approaches in using wikis in teaching and learning in teacher education colleges. It focuses on: instructors' motivation for wiki-based teaching; course types; teaching methods; evaluation; content structure; characteristics of student collaboration and learning outcomes; involvement of instructors in the learning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods, Course Content
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Wang, Chia-Sui; Huang, Yong-Ming – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
Face-to-face computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) was used extensively to facilitate learning in classrooms. Cloud services not only allow a single user to edit a document, but they also enable multiple users to simultaneously edit a shared document. However, few researchers have compared student acceptance of such services in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Preferences, Social Influences
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Savran Çelik, Seyd; Aydin, Selami – Online Submission, 2016
The number of the studies conducted on the use of wikis on the English as a foreign language (EFL) learning process has remained fairly limited. More specifically, in the Turkish EFL context, little attention has been paid to the effects of wikis on EFL writing achievement. Thus, this study aims to examine the effects of a wiki-based writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Achievement
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Fattah, Said Fathy El Said Abdul – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The present study was an attempt to determine the effectiveness of using a WhatsApp Messenger as one of mobile learning techniques to develop students' writing skills. Participants were 30 second year college students, English department from a private university in Saudi Arabia. The experimental group (N = 15) used WhatsApp technology to develop…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
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Blonder, Ron; Jonatan, Moshe; Bar-Dov, Ziva; Benny, Naama; Rap, Shelley; Sakhnini, Sohair – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2013
The goal of this research was to examine the change in the skills, Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and self-efficacy beliefs of chemistry teachers regarding video editing and using YouTube videos in high-school chemistry lessons, as a result of a professional development program that focused on editing YouTube videos and the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Educational Technology, Self Efficacy, Beliefs
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Biasutti, Michele; EL-Deghaidy, Heba – Computers & Education, 2012
The current study reports on the use of Wiki as an online didactic tool to develop knowledge management (KM) processes in higher education. This study integrates social constructivist principles to learning where learners are pro-active and collaborative through higher order cognitive processes. The study was administered in two countries, namely…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Constructivism (Learning), Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
Alzahrani, Ibraheem – Online Submission, 2012
Wikis technologies are one of Web 2.0 applications that can be used to improve the learning method and to engage students in learning with others in a collaborative environment. This paper investigates the potential use of wiki technology in Al-Baha University through students' perceptions; the study seeks to answer the main question. How to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Web Based Instruction
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Arnold, Nike; Ducate, Lara; Kost, Claudia – CALICO Journal, 2012
This study examines the online writing and revision behaviors of university language learners. In small groups, 53 intermediate German students from three classes at three different universities created wiki pages with background information about a novel read in class. All meaning- and language-related revisions were analyzed to determine whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperation, Group Dynamics, German
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Dishaw, Mark; Eierman, Michael A.; Iversen, Jakob H.; Philip, George C. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2011
Businesses and other organizations are relying increasingly on virtual teams to perform a range of business activities. A key challenge in utilizing virtual teams is to support collaboration among team members who are separated by distance and/or time. In this paper we use a research model based on a combination of the Technology Acceptance Model…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Electronic Mail, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software
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Wheeler, Steve; Wheeler, Dawn – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
This paper discusses writing as a social practice and speculates on how wikis might be used to promote higher quality academic writing and support collaborative learning. This study of undergraduate teacher trainees' online learning activities focuses on how shared spaces--wikis--might be used to communicate ideas and generate course-specific…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Collaborative Writing, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
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Kear, Karen; Woodthorpe, John; Robertson, Sandy; Hutchison, Mike – Internet and Higher Education, 2010
Web 2.0 communication tools have considerable promise for supporting collaborative learning. But there is a need for research examining learners' and teachers' experiences of the newer communication tools, such as wikis, in comparison with well-established tools, such as discussion forums. This paper reports on an initiative where distance…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Social Influences