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Damasceno, Cristiane S. – Communication Education, 2018
This paper explores learners' and facilitators' participation in Peer 2 Peer University's Learning Circles (face-to-face study groups for people who are taking massive open online courses together). While digital technologies and open educational resources bring new possibilities for learning in informal settings, few empirical studies explore how…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Communities of Practice, Large Group Instruction, Online Courses
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Meabon Bartow, Susan – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2014
Because social technologies present illuminating educational, ethical, economic, and structural challenges to existing constructions of public education, they catalyze a fundamental examination of what public education should look like and be like in a democracy. Given their performances in other arenas, mobile and electronic technologies have the…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Herman-Davis, Beth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore how critical pedagogy, culturally relevant curriculum, and student centered instruction impacted student engagement in reading for struggling high school readers, including first- and second-generation immigrants. The researcher/practitioner (r/p) chose to highlight Latinas in the study to understand the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Caring, Reading Materials, Critical Theory