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Rodriguez, Brenda Cecilia Padilla; Armellini, Alejandro – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
Although interaction is recognised as a key element for learning, its incorporation in online courses can be challenging. The interaction equivalency theorem provides guidelines: Meaningful learning can be supported as long as one of three types of interactions (learner-content, learner-teacher and learner-learner) is present at a high level. This…
Descriptors: Interaction, Online Courses, Theories, Teacher Student Relationship
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Plester, Beverly; Wood, Clare; Joshi, Puja – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
This paper presents a study of 88 British 10-12-year-old children's knowledge of text message (SMS) abbreviations ("textisms") and how it relates to their school literacy attainment. As a measure of textism knowledge, the children were asked to compose text messages they might write if they were in each of a set of scenarios. Their text…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Short Term Memory, Reading Ability
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Fowley, Cathy, Ed.; English, Claire, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2013
From 2000 to 2012 the number of Internet users rose from less than 0.4 billion to 2.4 billion. Scholarly, evidence-based Internet research is of critical importance. The field of Internet research explores the Internet as a social, political and educational phenomenon, providing theoretical and practical contributions to understanding, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Online Searching, Use Studies
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Zafeiriou, Georgia – Education for Information, 2003
The present article presents conditions relating to the effective use of text-based computer conferencing for group interaction. More specifically, it discusses ways peers found in order to express themselves as members of on-line groups and if they were able to reach consensus during interaction. The findings of the research are based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory, Teleconferencing
Macdonald-Ross, Michael – 1993
The two papers presented in this document discuss aspects of the computer revolution and its effects on the production of print materials. The papers are addressed to readers who are educators rather than technologists. The first article, entitled "Print," interprets that term broadly to include text development and production, and…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software, Distance Education
Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed.; Hoffman, James V., Ed.; Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2004
This volume presents the 53rd Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). The papers in this Yearbook reflect NRC's practice of pursuing not only traditionally important topics in literacy but also many issues that may not be deemed worthy of funding and government attention. Rather than a narrowing of the field, the submitted manuscripts,…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Yearbooks, Foreign Countries, Literacy