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A Critical Review of the Literature of Social Media's Affordances in the Classroom
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Stewart, Olivia G. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2015
Even though the use of social media in education is a now widely-studied topic, there still does not seem to be a consensus for what social media may afford students or how best to use them in the classroom. In this critical review of current literature, I discuss some of the most prominent qualitative studies that explore the use of social media…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Literacy, Educational Research
Understanding the Perceptions of Network Gatekeepers on Bandwidth and Online Video Streams in Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
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Odigie, Imoisili Ojeime; Gbaje, Ezra Shiloba – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2017
Online video streaming is a learning technology used in today's world and reliant on the availability of bandwidth. This research study sought to understand the perceptions of network gatekeepers about bandwidth and online video streams in Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria. To achieve this, the interpretive paradigm and the Network Gatekeeping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
CoLab: A Collaborative Laboratory for Facilitating Code Reviews through a Peer-to-Peer Network
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Kini, Shwetha – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2010
CoLab is a collaborative tool for peer review of software programs for providing constructive feedback to first-time programmers. It targets two kinds of users: a trainer (who is the facilitator) and a trainee (whose programming skills have to be assessed and, if needed, improved). The tool provides real-time information on the reviewing ability…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Software, Programming, Peer Evaluation
Reinventing Education: New Technology Does Not Guarantee a New Learning Culture
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Giest, Hartmut – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2010
Analyzing the contradictory relation between a media-theoretical and a media-pedagogical point of view, some basic problems regarding a new learning culture using Web 2.0 online tools are discussed. Against this background, data and findings from an empirical investigation (evaluation of an in-service teacher training e-learning project…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Teacher Education, Information Technology
Teachers Teaching in the New Mediascape: Digital Immigrants or "Natural Born Cyborgs"?
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Adams, Catherine A.; Pente, Patti – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
Schooled in an earlier time, educators are laboring to find meaningful purchase in new media environments, unable to match the fluency and sophistication of their "digital native" students. Yet is Marc Prensky's portrayal of teachers as "digital immigrants" really an accurate rendering of the today's situation? Drawing on phenomenological and…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Handheld Devices, Familiarity, Generational Differences