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Dittmar, Johanna; Eilks, Ingo – Education Sciences, 2019
Students today are increasingly engaged in the use of digital information and communication technologies. The Internet continues to grow and more and more young people are using it worldwide. Educational practices, however, have been slow to adapt to the corresponding developments. For example, Internet forums are generally ignored in most…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Internet, Discussion Groups, Student Attitudes
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Zheng, Yafeng; Xu, Chang; Li, Yanyan; Su, You – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
Knowledge elaboration plays a critical role in promoting knowledge acquisition and facilitating the retention of target knowledge in online collaborative discussions. Adopting a key-term-based automated analysis approach, we proposed an indicator framework to measure the level of knowledge elaboration in terms of coverage, activation, and…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Knowledge Level, Academic Ability
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Lefebvre, Sonia; Samson, Ghislain; Gareau, Alexandre; Brouillette, Nancy – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2016
The interactive whiteboard (IWB) is increasingly used for teaching and learning in the classroom. Nevertheless, the ways that teachers incorporate this tool within their teaching practices remain poorly understood. This paper examines elementary and high school teachers' self-reported practices with the IWB. The conceptual framework centers on…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Birch, Elisa; Williams, Andrew – International Education Studies, 2013
This paper examines the impact of supplementary web-based materials on students' academic performance in a first-year economics unit at university. In particular, the paper considers the impact of students' usage of the unit's webpage, voluntary on-line discussion board, voluntary on-line quizzes and voluntary on-line homework questions on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Economics Education, Instructional Materials
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Casey, Gail – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2013
This article reports on part of the author's PhD action research study. It examines the complexity of features that social media and Web 2.0 offer when combined with face-to-face teaching and learning. Action research was used to help redesign the learning programs of XXX's thirteen Middle Years classes over an eighteen month period. These…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interaction, Internet, Web Sites
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Green, Rodney A.; Hughes, Diane L. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2013
Asynchronous online discussion forums are increasingly common in blended learning environments but the relationship to student learning outcomes has not been reported for anatomy teaching. Forums were monitored in two multicampus anatomy courses; an introductory first year course and a second year physiotherapy-specific course. The forums are…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Medical Education, Medical Students, Computer Mediated Communication
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Kim, Il-Hee – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
This article investigates the effect of participation in synchronous online discussions on the development of individual reasoning as manifested in reflective essays. Students from a fourth-grade classroom engaged in a series of real-time online discussions. The format of the discussion was based on the Collaborative Reasoning approach which has…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Synchronous Communication
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Huang, Heng-Tsung Danny; Hung, Shao-Ting Alan – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Online discussion forums represent "online collaborative learning spaces in which communities become engaged in the discourse on a topic about which they share common interests or goals" (Montero, Watts & Garcia-Carbonell, 2007, p. 568). This digital communication modality has been claimed to enhance second/foreign language (L2)…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Discussion Groups, Computer Uses in Education
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Graham, Deryn – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2013
Evaluation of "e-Learning", or arguably "e-Delivery", is difficult. One reason is that comparisons are often made between different courses delivered using various delivery modes, making such comparisons hard to justify. The Business School at a university in the United Kingdom reportedly delivers the same postgraduate course…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Computer Software, Comparative Analysis
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Rogerson-Revell, Pamela; Nie, Ming; Armellini, Alejandro – Open Learning, 2012
We researched the incorporation of three learning technologies (voice boards, i.e. voice-based discussion boards, e-book readers, and Second Life virtual world), into the Master's Programme in Applied Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages offered by distance learning at the University of Leicester. This small-scale study…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Simulation
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Moore, Keri; Iida, Sumiko – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This paper discusses the frequency of use and the reasons for non-use of the online component of a course developed in "Blackboard 9", one popular learning management system (LMS) in tertiary education. The study particularly focuses on the three tools in the LMS: Groupwork tool, Downloadable quiz and Discussion forum. These tools were…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Japanese, Second Language Learning
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Sarrafzadeh, Maryam; Hazeri, Afsaneh; Alavi, Soheila – Education for Information, 2011
The present paper discusses results of a study which aimed to explore the knowledge and use of Web 2.0 technologies by LIS academics in Iran and to explore the challenges they face for using these technologies. The research method was explorative and empirical. Data was collected through a web-based survey questionnaire containing both open and…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Discussion Groups, Familiarity
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Hall, Andrew G.; Zentgraf, Claudia – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the concept of Winnicott's intermediate space as a method of understanding the role of learning spaces in the development of technology-enhanced educational organisations. Design/methodology/approach: The approach takes the form of a comparative analysis of interaction within face-to-face and online learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Seminars, Internet
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McLoughlin, D.; Mynard, J. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2009
This paper describes a study of online discussion forums as tools for promoting higher-order thinking. The study was carried out in a women's university in the United Arab Emirates. Data, in the form of online discussion forum transcripts, were collected over a 20-week semester and were analysed according to a model developed by Garrison,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education
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Liu, I-Fan; Chen, Meng Chang; Sun, Yeali S.; Wible, David; Kuo, Chin-Hwa – Computers & Education, 2010
An online learning community enables learners to access up-to-date information via the Internet anytime--anywhere because of the ubiquity of the World Wide Web (WWW). Students can also interact with one another during the learning process. Hence, researchers want to determine whether such interaction produces learning synergy in an online learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Internet, Models, Intention
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