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Azevedo, Breno T.; Reategui, Eliseo; Behar, Patrícia A. – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2014
This paper presents ForumMiner, a tool for the automatic analysis of students' posts in asynchronous discussions. ForumMiner uses a text mining system to extract graphs from texts that are given to students as a basis for their discussion. These graphs contain the most relevant terms found in the texts, as well as the relationships between them.…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Content Analysis, Graphs
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Pieterse, Efrat; Peled, Yehuda – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2014
This research examines the feasibility and benefits of using Twitter as a support tool to enhance social interaction among teachers in their first year of service, as they participate in an online induction workshop, and as a tool to aid the workshop's moderator in monitoring the group and enhancing and supporting the early-service teachers'…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education, Interaction
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Cohen, Anat; Duchan, Galit – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2012
This research discusses the use of Twitter as a teaching-supporting tool in face to face (F2F) learning. The uniqueness and importance of this research is in the age group on which it focuses, an age group that has not yet been examined (ninth grade); furthermore, data was analyzed by decoding tweets, grouping tweets into various pedagogical and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Telecommunications, Grade 9
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Hussein-Farraj, Rania; Barak, Miri; Dori, Yehudit Judy – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2012
This study examined the development of two Distance Learning (DL) courses and their effect on students' perceptions and learning experiences. Our study included about 260 science and engineering graduate students. Among them, 105 students were divided into two research groups: on-campus students (N=70) and DL students (N=35). These two groups…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes