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Oztok, Murat; Wilton, Lesley; Zingaro, Daniel; Mackinnon, Kim; Makos, Alexandra; Phirangee, Krystle; Brett, Clare; Hewitt, Jim – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
Online learning has been conceptualized for decades as being delivered in one of two modes: synchronous or asynchronous. Technological determinism falls short in describing the role that the individuals' psychological, social and pedagogical factors play in their perception, experience and understanding of time online. This article explores…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Time Perspective
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Kumar, Swapna; Ritzhaupt, Albert D. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
A cohort-based online professional doctorate program that consisted of both online coursework and research activities was designed using Garrison et al's community of inquiry (CoI) framework. The evaluation of the program proved a challenge because all existing CoI assessment methods in the past have dealt with online courses, not with online…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Electronic Learning, Doctoral Programs
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Graham, Deryn – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
The concept of time is a key issue incorporated in most educational theories, and the notion of time has been considered in different ways in diverse approaches, such as behaviourism, genetic epistemology, cultural psychology and didactic. In research leading to the development of a nine-stage Transnational Framework for E-Learning Technologies,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Processes, Time Factors (Learning), Time Perspective
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Khoo, Elaine; Cowie, Bronwen – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
Time takes on a different character when online teachers take advantage of the possibilities for interactions occurring over different scales of time. Online teachers' pedagogical link-making can help students see links between ideas across individual postings so that meaning making becomes cumulative and progressive. This article reports on a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, Graduate School Faculty, Educational Research
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Enriquez, Judith Guevarra – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
It is possible that the pedagogical benefits of a discussion board or any asynchronous communicative tool may not be realised as inscribed in terms like "collaborative learning environment" or "discussion board" due to two things: first, as instructors, we focus on what the technology can do and should do and ignore "what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology
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Seufferheld, Manfredo J.; Scagnoli, Norma I. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
The last decade has seen a great variety in the ways in which instructors have incorporated the World Wide Web into their traditional classroom courses; however, this combination has not always translated into changes or improvements in teaching and learning. The real challenge has proved to be not the addition of web resources to the traditional…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Science Curriculum