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Input in the Digital Wild: Online Informal and Non-Formal Learning and Their Interactions with Study Abroad
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Sockett, Geoffrey – Second Language Research, 2023
As research into online informal language learning (OILL) develops as a field, the impact on such practices for a wide variety of contexts can be considered. In the case of this publication, the study abroad (SA) context is of particular interest. Indeed the study abroad student may interact with a range of online learning resources in formal,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Informal Education, Learning Activities, Second Language Learning
Technology and Social Media Usage in Higher Education: The Influence of Individual Innovativeness
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Aldahdouh, Tahani Z.; Nokelainen, Petri; Korhonen, Vesa – SAGE Open, 2020
This article presents a two-phase study exploring the usage of technology in higher education as well as the role of the general innovativeness in predicting the actual use of technology. During the first phase of the study, which involved 502 staff members, a descriptive analysis of their usage of social media, technological devices, and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Technology, Higher Education, Educational Innovation
Contrasting the Cognitive Effects of Graphical and Sentential Logic Teaching: Reasoning, Representation, and Individual Differences.
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Stenning, Keith; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Compares the effects of teaching undergraduate logic courses using Hyperproof (a graphical computer software program) and a traditional syntactic teaching method. The results indicate that there is significant transfer from the logic courses to a range of verbal reasoning problems, and that individual differences in aptitude should be considered…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Conventional Instruction
An Investigation of Styles and Strategies in Self-Directed Learning.
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Stanton, Neville; Baber, Chris – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1992
This study investigated the cognitive style (field dependence/independence) and learning strategies of undergraduate students in learner-controlled computer-assisted instruction (CAI). Three learning strategies were identified, but it was concluded that cognitive styles and learning strategies may be the result of the computer software design,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Field Dependence Independence
Individual Differences in Learning from an Intelligent Discovery World: Smithtown.
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Shute, Valerie J. – 1990
"Smithtown" is an intelligent computer program designed to enhance an individual's scientific inquiry skills as well as to provide an environment for learning principles of basic microeconomics. It was hypothesized that intelligent computer instruction on applying effective interrogative skills (e.g., changing one variable at a time…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Concept Formation, Economics
Technology for Students with Learning Disabilities: Educational Applications.
Higgins, Kyle, Ed.; Boone, Randall, Ed. – 1997
This collection of 12 papers addresses the application of various technologies to the education of students with learning disabilities. Also included is a CD-ROM version of the original text, which provides enhancements through digital editing such as hypertext and hypermedia links. The papers included are: (1) "Special Education Technology:…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education