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Ricoy, Carmen; Feliz, Tiberio; Couto, Maria Joao – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2013
Use of new technologies in university training is an ongoing reality today. However, the inequalities that exist among university students are the source of an important problem. Such inequalities need to be detected and analyzed and therefore a study of college freshmen can be very valuable. This qualitative study intends to analyze the digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Freshmen, Qualitative Research
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Savin-Baden, Maggi – London Review of Education, 2013
This paper will present a study that explored the perceived impact of spatial practice in "Second Life" (SL) on teaching and learning from the point of view of participants in higher education (lecturers, developers and researchers). Narrative inquiry was used to access stories and experiences of space and spatial practice from staff…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes, Cues, Information Technology
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Conole, Grainne; Galley, Rebecca; Culver, Juliette – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
This paper describes a new social networking site, Cloudworks, which has been developed to enable discussion and sharing of learning and teaching ideas/designs and to promote reflective academic practice. The site aims to foster new forms of social and participatory practices (peer critiquing, sharing, user-generated content, aggregation, and…
Descriptors: Interaction, Social Networks, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education
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Scanlon, Eileen – Distance Education, 2012
This article focuses on the potential of free tools, particularly inquiry tools for influencing participation in twenty-first-century learning in science, as well as influencing the development of communities around tools. Two examples are presented: one on the development of an open source tool for structured inquiry learning that can bridge the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Observation, Science Instruction
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Muukkonen, Hanni; Lakkala, Minna – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2009
The skills of knowledge-creating inquiry are explored as a challenge for higher education. The knowledge-creation approach to learning provides a theoretical tool for addressing them: In addition to the individual and social aspects in regulation of inquiry, the knowledge-creation approach focuses on aspects related to advancing shared objects of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Content Analysis, Inquiry
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Durick, Mary Ann – Journal of Chemical Education, 2001
Highlights and provides information about the grant awarded to Bismarck State College, Bismarck, North Dakota by the National Science Foundation (NSF). (ASK)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Higher Education, Inquiry
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Nel, E.; Wilkinson, A. C. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
At the University of the Free State (UFS) blended learning (a combination of face-to-face and online modes of delivery) is regarded as a relatively new practice with possibilities of addressing many of the context-specific teaching and learning problems at the institution. During the planning phase for the third cycle of an action inquiry project…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Online Courses
Gallová, Mária, Ed.; Guncaga, Ján, Ed.; Chanasová, Zuzana, Ed.; Chovancová, Michaela Moldová, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this scientific monograph is to show new and creative approaches to different school subjects in primary and secondary level. Methodology: Interdisciplinary and international comparative approaches were used. Now according to the 7th Framework Program, the preferred form of Science Education (www.scientix.eu) is preferred…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intellectual Disciplines, Comparative Analysis
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Knowlton, Dave S. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
Instead of designing by following prescriptive models, students may benefit by approaching design as a process of free inquiry. This paper considers the impact of this inquiry-based approach on students' thinking by considering the ways that students represented the design process at the end of an inquiry-based design course.
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Educational Technology, Inquiry, Instructional Design
Cakir, Mustafa; Carlsen, William S. – 2002
The Environmental Inquiry (EI) program (Cornell University and Pennsylvania State University) supports inquiry based, student-centered science teaching on selected topics in the environmental sciences. Texts to support high school student research are published by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) in the domains of environmental…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education, Inquiry, Peer Evaluation
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Garrison, D. Randy; Arbaugh, J. B. – Internet and Higher Education, 2007
Since its publication in "The Internet and Higher Education," Garrison, Anderson, and Archer's [Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T., & Archer, W. (2000). Critical inquiry in a text-based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education. "The Internet and Higher Education," 2(2-3), 87-105.] community of inquiry (CoI) framework has generated…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Teleconferencing, Internet
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Odom, A. Louis; Settlage, John; Pedersen, Jon E. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2002
Investigates the current state of technology use and know-how among members of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science (AETS). Examines the differences between current and desired levels of knowledge about using technology as an instructional tool to enhance productivity in classroom applications and data collection and analysis.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Kerns, Tim – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1996
Reviews the general literature on cooperative learning in science at both the secondary and postsecondary level and the use of cooperative learning in the college chemistry laboratory. Discusses the use of cooperative learning with other instructional techniques such as the use of computers, multimedia, and inquiry-based instruction. (JRH)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies
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Slavit, David; LoFaro, Tom; Cooper, Kevin – School Science and Mathematics, 2002
Describes one instructor's approach to incorporating simulations and classroom discussions into a differential equations course. Discusses subsequent effects on student learning attitudes and outcomes in conceptualizing and applying ideas regarding solutions to differential equations in this learning environment. Explores issues on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Concept Formation, Differential Equations
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Malone, Kathy; Rieland, Bob – Physics Teacher, 1995
Describes the use of an exploratory computerized approach to introduce first-year physics students to the ramifications of Newton's third law of motion. (JRH)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education, Inquiry, Mechanics (Physics)
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