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Li, Zhen – Learning, Media and Technology, 2016
The contextualized nature of learning with technology is widely acknowledged in research, but there remains a lack of sound social theorization to conceptualize and understand this contextualization. Giddens' structuration theory has been proposed as an appropriate tool for analysing and understanding human interactions with technologies. Drawing…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Social Theories
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Bolldén, Karin – Learning, Media and Technology, 2016
The aim of this article was to analyse relations between online teaching practices and their virtual material arrangements. Two higher education online settings were studied using an online ethnographic approach in which observation of the teaching process was of central importance. The first setting was a course in education carried out on…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Technological Advancement, Higher Education
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Masterman, Elizabeth; Shuyska, Jane Alexen – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
Taught Master's students have been largely overlooked in research into learners' engagement with digital technologies. This article reports work to redress this imbalance, in which an extended email correspondence was conducted with 23 Master's students. Specifically, it investigates (1) the extent to which these students start their courses both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Electronic Mail, Computer Literacy
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Vernadakis, Nikolaos; Antoniou, Panagiotis; Giannousi, Maria; Zetou, Eleni; Kioumourtzoglou, Efthimis – Learning, Media and Technology, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of information literacy on students' perception toward the educational services offered by an asynchronous course management system (e-Class) for the support of the traditional instruction method in tertiary physical education (PE) institutions. Participants were 211 PE students between the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Physical Education, Integrated Learning Systems, Student Attitudes
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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