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Modeling the Personal Adult Learner: The Concept of PLE Re-Interpreted
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Fiedler, Sebastian H. D.; Väljataga, Terje – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
This paper argues for conceptualizing the notion of personal learning environments in higher education from an explicit adult education perspective that emphasizes the realization, re-instrumentation, and integration of learning activity in the wider context of adult life. It discusses and re-interprets an existing proposal for modeling "the…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Adult Students, Adult Education, Higher Education
Understanding the Process of Teachers' Technology Adoption with a Dynamic Analytical Model
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Zheng, Longwei; Gibson, David; Gu, Xiaoqing – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
This study extends the understanding of the process of teachers' technology adoption by investigating the dynamic nature of the adoption process. We propose a nonhomogeneous hidden Markov model that reveals the dynamics of teachers' adoption over time and examines the impact of internal and external factors, including experiences, interventions,…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Technology Integration, Electronic Publishing, Textbooks
The Impact of an Online Collaborative Learning Program on Students' Attitude towards Technology
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Magen-Nagar, Noga; Shonfeld, Miri – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
This quantitative research examined the contribution of an Online Collaborative Learning (OCL) program on attitudes towards technology in terms of technological anxiety, self-confidence and technology orientation among M.Ed. students. The advanced online collaborative program was implemented at two teacher training colleges in Israel for a period…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning, Statistical Analysis, Anxiety
Beyond the Personal Learning Environment: Attachment and Control in the Classroom of the Future
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Johnson, Mark William; Sherlock, David – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
The Personal Learning Environment (PLE) has been presented in a number of guises over a period of 10 years as an intervention which seeks the reorganisation of educational technology through shifting the "locus of control" of technology towards the learner. In the intervening period to the present, a number of initiatives have attempted…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Intervention, Educational Technology, Locus of Control
The Role of Model Building in Problem Solving and Conceptual Change
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Lee, Chwee Beng; Jonassen, David; Teo, Timothy – Interactive Learning Environments, 2011
This study examines the effects of the activity of building systems models for school-based problems on problem solving and on conceptual change in elementary science classes. During a unit on the water cycle in an Asian elementary school, students constructed systems models of the water cycle. We found that representing ill-structured problems as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Water, Problem Solving, Models
Effects of Group Reflection Variations in Project-Based Learning Integrated in a Web 2.0 Learning Space
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Kim, Paul; Hong, Ji-Seong; Bonk, Curtis; Lim, Gloria – Interactive Learning Environments, 2011
A Web 2.0 environment that is coupled with emerging multimodal interaction tools can have considerable influence on team learning outcomes. Today, technologies supporting social networking, collective intelligence, emotional interaction, and virtual communication are introducing new forms of collaboration that are profoundly impacting education.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Undergraduate Students, Student Projects, Computer Mediated Communication