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Beach, Pamela; Henderson, Gail; McConnel, Jen – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
This study involves an in-depth examination of Canadian elementary teachers' cognitive processes and metacognitive strategies they used during a self-directed online learning experience. The virtual revisit think aloud, a methodology that combines a retrospective procedure with screen recording technology, was used to capture verbalisations from…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Metacognition, Electronic Learning, Professional Development
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Kammerer, Yvonne; Brand-Gruwel, Saskia; Jarodzka, Halszka – Frontline Learning Research, 2018
Recent technological developments related to the World Wide Web including mobile computing, social media, and online videos are shaping the way we learn. As argued in the present commentary, the majority of educational psychological research that has examined how individuals learn by searching the Web, however, has not kept up with this pace.…
Descriptors: Internet, Online Searching, Electronic Learning, Learning Processes
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Fernández-Pampillón, Ana M. – Education Sciences, 2017
Vocabularies are linguistic resources that make it possible to access knowledge through words. They can constitute a mechanism to identify, describe, explore, and access all the digital resources with informational content pertaining to a specific knowledge domain. In this regard, they play a key role as systems for the representation and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Electronic Libraries, Metadata, Information Management
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Kuosa, Kirsi; Distante, Damiano; Tervakari, Anne; Cerulo, Luigi; Fernández, Alejandro; Koro, Juho; Kailanto, Meri – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2016
This paper presents two interactive visualization tools for learning management systems (LMS) in order to improve learning and teaching in online courses. The first tool was developed at the Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory (IISLab) at the Tampere University of Technology (TUT). The tool is used to analyse students' activity from…
Descriptors: Interaction, Visualization, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
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Gorissen, Pierre; van Bruggen, Jan; Jochems, Wim – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
Students more and more have access to online recordings of the lectures they attend at universities. The volume and length of these recorded lectures however make them difficult to navigate. Research shows that students primarily watch the recorded lectures while preparing for their exams. They do watch the full recorded lectures, but review only…
Descriptors: Navigation (Information Systems), Usability, Lecture Method, Online Courses
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Chen, Hsin-Yuan – Education Research and Perspectives, 2010
The present study targeted the online reading strategies of upper-elementary and middle school students with and without learning disabilities in the U.S. and in Taiwan. Several aspects of the comprehension process were studied, including: (1) Internet navigation strategies and behaviours, (2) sensitivity to the organisational structure of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Reading Strategies, Search Strategies
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Waniek, Jacqueline; Ewald, Karolin – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2008
This study examines the cognitive costs of navigation aids in a hypermedia learning task. In a 2(navigable vs. non-navigable) x 2(map vs. content list) experimental design cognitive requirements were measured by users' eye movement data. Additionally, data from users' navigation operations, knowledge acquisition, and subjective evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Eye Movements, Hypermedia, Cognitive Processes
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Gutbrod, Martin; Werner, Christian; Fischer, Stefan – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2006
One of today's major problems in the field of e-learning is that the creation of high-quality content is still rather time consuming and expensive. In the past, many efforts have been made to produce educational content on the fly, but the results were mainly static blocks of recorded lecture lacking sophisticated navigation facilities. Facing…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Metadata, Educational Technology