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Miron, Eli; Ravid, Gilad – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
The move from a walled garden type Learning Management Systems (LMS) to open environments (like Facebook) forces us to adapt new teaching ways. This article offers a brief review of the use of Facebook groups in learning, describes the experience of using Facebook groups in an academic institute, explains the considerations for choosing the type…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Privacy
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Chawinga, Winner Dominic – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2016
It is understood that microblogging (tweeting) which is a form of Web 2.0, has been a centre of attraction in some institutions of higher education. However, despite its hype and pomp as reported by some scholars in developed countries, integration of Twitter in a classroom environment in developing countries is just beginning to flourish. In…
Descriptors: Social Media, Electronic Publishing, Course Content, Foreign Countries
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Stack, Sue; Watson, Jane; Abbott-Chapman, Joan – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Tasmania, one of the first locations to have communities connected to the national broadband network (NBN), provided the context within which to ask significant questions about the implications of the NBN for all levels and sectors of education. This paper reports findings from a research project that developed innovative methodology to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Computer Networks, Internet
Trevett-Smith, Matthew D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Ethnographic and interview data from a long-term study of "NetU," a wired community and college, are used to investigate the effects of computer-mediated communication on social relationships. During the course of this research "LAN" residents of NetU are compared with a similar group of non-LAN residents who lived in the same neighborhood, but…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Colleges, Social Capital, Computer Mediated Communication
Kennedy, Mike – American School & University, 2010
For the generation of people whose classroom memories consist of chalk squeaking on a blackboard, weather-beaten textbooks and a ready supply of sharpened No. 2 pencils, the resources available to students in many 21st-century American schools may seem unfamiliar, even amazing. Computer networks with access to the Internet--wired or wireless--have…
Descriptors: Technology Planning, Textbooks, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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Hodgins, Dave – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010
The explosion of Web 2.0 into libraries has left many smaller academic libraries (and other libraries with limited computing resources or support) to work in the cloud using free Web applications. The use of commercial Web hosting is an innovative approach to the problem of inadequate local resources. While the idea of insourcing IT will seem…
Descriptors: Computers, Academic Libraries, Internet, Word Processing
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
The author discusses the gossip Web site Juicy Campus. Although many students express concern that potential employers who see the cite may decline to hire individuals after reading gossip-filled allegations, or that their social lives are in tatters over the mean-spirited, anonymous messages posted about them, because the site has no affiliation…
Descriptors: Publicity, Interpersonal Communication, Internet, Web Sites
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Taylor, Jeffery – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2010
The literature on globally networked learning environments (GNLEs) has predominantly focused on research or classroom partnerships in higher education that usually involve traditional students enrolled in traditional degree programmes. However, the driving motivation behind GNLEs--learning in partnership across institutional and national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Labor Education, Global Approach
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Bottum, James R.; Davis, James F.; Siegel, Peter M.; Wheeler, Brad; Oblinger, Diana G. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2008
Cyberinfrastructure permits a new kind of scholarly inquiry and education, empowering communities to innovate and to revolutionize what they do, how they do it, and who participates. (Contains 6 notes.)
Descriptors: Inquiry, Computer Networks, Internet, Technological Advancement
Azeta, A. A.; Oyelami M. O. – Online Submission, 2008
With the vast development of various technologies, learning today is no longer confined to classrooms with lecture delivery as the only method of conveying knowledge, rather, an electronic means of learning has continued to evolve. Electronic learning (e-Learning), which facilitates education using communications networks, has made learning…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computer Software, Computer Networks, Computer Mediated Communication
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Dawson, Phillip – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This article presents an argument for the use of networked interactive whiteboards (NIWBs) in regional Australian higher education and identifies new pedagogies for this context. Most Australian universities operate multiple campuses, and many use video conference facilities to deliver courses across these sites. For students at remote video…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Lecture Method, Regional Programs
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Sheehan, Mark C. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2008
Drawn from a recent ECAR research study, this article addresses the importance of five CI technologies to various academic areas in research and in teaching and learning at present and how survey respondents think the importance of these technologies might change in the near future. (Contains 2 figures, 2 tables and 7 notes.)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Internet, Technological Advancement, Research
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Berman, Francine – EDUCAUSE Review, 2008
Providing an evolving foundation for 21st-century research and education, cyberinfrastructure is both a focus for invention and an accelerator of innovation, linked through a trajectory that begins with design and evolves to broad-based use. (Contains 1 figure, 1 table and 11 notes.)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Internet, Technological Advancement, Computer Mediated Communication
Farmer, Lesley; Shontz, Marilyn – School Library Journal, 2009
This year's "School Library Journal's" spending survey showed that, despite the recession, the vast majority of media centers around the country have retained their credentialed media specialists. For example, almost 85% of elementary schools and more than 95% of middle and high schools have a full-time certified librarian. In addition, salaries…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Media Specialists, Surveys, Financial Problems
Trotter, Andrew – Education Week, 2006
This article deals with federal E-rate program's support of school leaders' Blackberry habit. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has cleared the way to allow money from the $2.25 billion program of subsidies for school technology to apply to e-mail service for mobile, wireless devices, such as the BlackBerry, which are increasingly…
Descriptors: Internet, Electronic Mail, Telecommunications, Computer Networks
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