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Assessing Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). An Expert Evaluation
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Llorente Cejudo, María del Carmen – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2013
On the basis of the Research Project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education under the title "Design, production and evaluation of a 2.0 learning environment for faculty training in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)" (EDU2009-08 893), experts have used the external competence coefficient to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Computer System Design, Technological Literacy, Faculty Development
Designing Social Media for Informal Learning and Knowledge Maturing in the Digital Workplace
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Ravenscroft, A.; Schmidt, A.; Cook, J.; Bradley, C. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012
This paper presents an original approach to designing social media that support informal learning in the digital workplace. It adapts design-based research to take into account the embeddedness of interactions within digitally mediated work-based contexts. The approach is demonstrated through the design, implementation, and evaluation of software…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Formative Evaluation, Methods, Organizational Development
Finding and Reusing Learning Materials with Multimedia Similarity Search and Social Networks
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Little, Suzanne; Ferguson, Rebecca; Ruger, Stefan – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2012
The authors describe how content-based multimedia search technologies can be used to help learners find new materials and learning pathways by identifying semantic relationships between educational resources in a social learning network. This helps users--both learners and educators--to explore and find material to support their learning aims.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Use Studies, Semantics, Educational Technology
Assessing the Application of Three-Dimensional Collaborative Technologies within an E-Learning Environment
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McArdle, Gavin; Bertolotto, Michela – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
Today, the Internet plays a major role in distributing learning material within third level education. Multiple online facilities provide access to educational resources. While early systems relied on webpages, which acted as repositories for learning material, nowadays sophisticated online applications manage and deliver learning resources.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Interaction
Clicker Implementation Models
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White, Peter J. T.; Delaney, David G.; Syncox, David; Akerberg, Oscar Avila; Alters, Brian – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2011
Student response systems can help instructors integrate active learning into their classrooms. Such technology is known by a variety of names, including classroom response systems, student response systems, audience response systems, electronic response systems, personal response systems, zappers, and clickers. The "system" consists of three…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Audience Response, Computer Software, Active Learning
Collaborative Software and Focused Distraction in the Classroom
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Rhine, Steve; Bailey, Mark – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2011
In search of strategies for increasing their pre-service teachers' thoughtful engagement with content and in an effort to model connection between choice of technology and pedagogical goals, the authors utilized collaborative software during class time. Collaborative software allows all students to write simultaneously on a single collective…
Descriptors: Discussion, Blended Learning, Computer Software Evaluation, Video Technology