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Long, Deanna; Szabo, Susan – Cogent Education, 2016
This quasi-experimental mixed methods study examined the use of e-readers during guided reading instruction and its impact on 5th grade students' reading motivation, attitude toward reading, and reading comprehension. For 10 weeks, 19 students received guided reading instruction by means of the traditional paper/text format, while 16 students…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Comprehension, Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning
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Atchley, Wayne; Wingenbach, Gary; Akers, Cindy – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Enrollment in online courses has outpaced overall university enrollment for the past several years. The growth of online courses does not appear to be slowing. The purpose of this study was to compare course completion and student academic performance between online and traditional courses. Archival data from the host university student records…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Conventional Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Amro, Hanan; Maxwell, Gerri M.; Kupczynski, Lori – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2013
With continually increasing enrollment, and colleges and universities struggling to meet the demand, leaders in education are turning to the web instruction to deliver instruction to students. In order to meet the needs of these online students, institutions of higher education need more data concerning the factors that influence students'…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Intermode Differences
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Chien, Chih-Feng; Rad, Zahra Moghadsian – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2013
This article is to report an action research conducted in two sections of a course called Second Language Acquisition and Development during the fall semester of 2011 and the spring semester of 2012. By focusing on a three-way blended learning (BL) environment--face-to-face (F2F), eLearning, and Second Life (SL, a virtual-world environment), this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Language Acquisition, Technology Integration