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Tare, Medha; Golonka, Ewa M.; Vatz, Karen; Bonilla, Carrie L.; Crooks, Carolyn; Strong, Rachel – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
This study examines the importance of interaction for second language (L2) acquisition by analyzing outcomes from two types of out-of-class activities. The study compared: (a) interactive homework, completed via text chat, and (b) individual homework, completed via independent writing. In a between-subjects design, participants in two…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Instructional Design, Second Language Learning, Russian
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Krutka, Daniel G.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2016
The microblogging service Twitter offers a platform that social studies educators increasingly use for professional development, communication, and class activities, but to what ends? The authors drew on Deweyan conceptions of participatory learning and citizenship aims of the field as lenses through which to consider social media activities. To…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Networks, Electronic Publishing
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Wright, Leigh L.; Shemberger, Melony; Price, Elizabeth – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2016
Journalism professors are concerned with how effectively students understand current news events and engage with mainstream news sources. This essay is based on a survey administered to students in a newswriting course and analyzed the kinds of current news that students followed in weekly assignments designed with a digital, interactive approach.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Current Events, Journalism, Student Surveys
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deNoyelles, Aimee; Seo, Kay Kyeong-Ju – Computers & Education, 2012
A 3D multi-user virtual environment holds promise to support and enhance student online learning communities due to its ability to promote global synchronous interaction and collaboration, rich multisensory experience and expression, and elaborate design capabilities. Second Life[R], a multi-user virtual environment intended for adult users 18 and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Class Activities, Video Games, Females
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Beauchamp, Gary; Kennewell, Steve; Tanner, Howard; Jones, Sonia – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
The teacher's role has often been described as one of "orchestration", and this musical analogy is a powerful one in characterising the manipulation of features in the classroom setting in order to generate activity or "performance" which leads to learning. However, a classical view of orchestration would fail to recognise the extent to which…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Role, Music, Figurative Language
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Casey, Gail; Evans, Terry – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
This paper deploys notions of emergence, connections, and designs for learning to conceptualize high school students' interactions when using online social media as a learning environment. It makes links to chaos and complexity theories and to fractal patterns as it reports on a part of the first author's action research study, conducted while she…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Learning Processes, Classroom Environment
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Scalia, Lynne M.; Sackmary, Benjamin – Computers in the Schools, 1996
Discusses groupware, a form of computer-mediated communication that supports interaction and cooperative work among group members regardless of location. Highlights include computer-supported cooperative work; electronic mail; computer conferences; group decision support systems; an example of a classroom groupware project with undergraduates; and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning, Decision Support Systems
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Yildiz, Senem; Bichelmeyer, Barbara A. – Distance Education, 2003
The purpose of this study is to describe forum participation of international graduate students who speak English as a foreign language in two Web-based graduate courses. Research questions focused around how linguistic and cultural differences impact nonnative speaking international students' perception of classroom participation, what effect…
Descriptors: Interaction, Cultural Differences, Data Analysis, Graduate Students