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Cheng, Mengmeng; Kinshuk – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Asynchronous discussions have been widely used in education to support learning. Exploring the reasons why threads in asynchronous discussion forums die may help us improve our understanding of asynchronous discussions and lead to a more effective learning process. This study explored why threads in asynchronous discussion forums shut down. Two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Patterns, Student Behavior, Computer Mediated Communication
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Carnevale, Stefania; Di Napoli, Immacolata; Esposito, Francesca; Arcidiacono, Caterina – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
Drawingvoice 2.0 is an instructional method of collaborative pencil and paper drawing to use in the school classroom, followed by Facebook interaction on the drawing produced in class. It is based on a participatory and meta reflective approach, explicitly aimed at deconstructing, negotiating, and reconstructing the meaning that students attribute…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Design, Social Media, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Msonde, Sydney Enock; Van Aalst, Jan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
Virtual learning environments are used in higher education around the world to promote student learning. However, in many countries it has not yielded the expected effect on student interaction and learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the use of certain pedagogical approaches would promote student interaction,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Chemistry
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Yang, Ya-Ting C. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2008
This study was designed to investigate the effects of teaching critical thinking skills (CTS) in a large class through asynchronous discussion forums (ADFs) with the facilitation of teaching assistants. A pretest and posttest quasi-experimental design with a comparison group was employed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Teleconferencing