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Sarthak Punj; Poorvi Kejriwal; S. P. Raja – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2024
Technology is advancing and metaverse is gaining popularity. The magic of metaverse is beyond our imagination. In simple terms, the metaverse refers to a virtual shared space that exists online, where people can interact, socialise, work, and play using digital avatars, just like they do in the real world. It is a combination of virtual reality,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Mediated Communication, Health Services, Social Media
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Victoria M. Bryan, Editor; Cat Stanfield, Editor – National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
This volume is intended as an argument for honors education in online spaces--an opportunity to demonstrate how courses and programming can operate virtually while maintaining the rigor, innovation, and community on which honors education prides itself. Online honors courses may not have been the most popular, but those invested in that work knew…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Computer Simulation
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An, Yunjo – Educational Process: International Journal, 2021
Background/purpose: This study examined how team-based gamified learning influenced students' attitudes towards the gamification of learning, online collaboration, and competition. Furthermore, the study explored what factors contributed to the students' positive or negative experiences with gamified learning. Materials/methods: Game elements used…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Game Based Learning, Student Attitudes, Cooperation
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Martinsen, Rob A.; Thompson, Gregory L. – Hispania, 2023
Interacting with native speakers in various types of virtual exchanges is becoming increasingly accessible for language learners and teachers around the world. The present study examined the experiences of beginning and intermediate level learners of Spanish in the United States as they interacted weekly with native Spanish speakers over the…
Descriptors: Exchange Programs, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bioglio, Livio; Capecchi, Sara; Peiretti, Federico; Sayed, Dennis; Torasso, Antonella; Pensa, Ruggero G. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2019
In this paper, we address the problem of enhancing young people's awareness of the mechanisms involving privacy in online social networks by presenting an innovative approach based on gamification. In particular, we propose a web application that allows kids and teenagers to experience the typical dynamics of information spread through a realistic…
Descriptors: Privacy, Social Media, Children, Adolescents
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Brunner, Melissa; Palmer, Stuart; Togher, Leanne; Hemsley, Bronwyn – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2019
Background: Social media can support people with communication disability to access information, social participation and support. However, little is known about the experiences of people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who use social media to determine their needs in relation to social media use. Aims: To determine the views and experiences of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Communication Problems, Social Networks, Disabilities
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Bagarukayo, Emily – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2018
Employers have criticised graduates for having inadequate skills to apply knowledge into practice. One of the causes of this challenge is the traditional teaching and learning methods which concentrate more on theory than practice. Technology affords several teaching and learning tools like social media which students are already motivated to use.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Video Technology
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Koseoglu, Suzan; Bozkurt, Aras – Online Learning, 2018
This mixed methods study addresses a knowledge gap in the nature and effects of networked scholarship. We analyze #DigPed, a Twitter hashtag on critical pedagogy, through the lens of Tufekci's "capacities and signals" framework in order to understand how educational narratives develop and spread on #DigPed. Using social network analysis…
Descriptors: Social Media, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Social Networks
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Suarez-Warden, Fernando; Barrera, Salvador – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Communicative learning progress in industry and education must gain focus and commitment otherwise innovation efforts by new technologies and recent researches will produce scarce results. Frequently, it appears gaps in quality and efficiency due to lack of ideas assimilation, matter that can be noticed. Investigators may discourse about platforms…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Man Machine Systems, Communication Skills
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2020
An English teacher uses Skype to connect his high school students in an Indian village with international teachers to help them interact and converse with them in English. Each international teacher interacts with the students in English once for 40 minutes. The teacher does that daily, and each day an international guest teacher is from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Social Networks, Videoconferencing
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2020
An English teacher uses Skype to connect his high school students in an Indian village with international teachers to help them interact and converse with them in English. Each international teacher interacts with the students in English once for 40 minutes. The teacher does that daily, and each day an international guest teacher is from a…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Videoconferencing, Computer Simulation
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Attardi, Stefanie M.; Barbeau, Michele L.; Rogers, Kem A. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2018
An online section of a face-to-face (F2F) undergraduate (bachelor's level) anatomy course with a prosection laboratory was offered in 2013-2014. Lectures for F2F students (353) were broadcast to online students (138) using Blackboard Collaborate (BBC) virtual classroom. Online laboratories were offered using BBC and three-dimensional (3D)…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Online Courses, Computer Simulation, Course Descriptions
Sotomayor, Gilda E. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2014
This article aims to outline and project three new learning scenarios for Higher Education that, after the emergence of ICT and communication through the Network-lnternet, have appeared under the generic name of virtual communities. To that end, we start from a previous conceptual analysis on collaborative learning, cooperative learning and…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Computer Simulation, Higher Education, Computer Mediated Communication
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McKenzie, Brian A. – History Teacher, 2014
Born-digital sources are, in fact, already old enough to fall into the domain of traditional, albeit recent, history. Bulletin Board Systems date from the 1980s. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) launched the first website and server in 1990. Websites and the new digital media are cultural artefacts. Archivists and librarians…
Descriptors: Social Media, History Instruction, Computer Simulation, Primary Sources
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Karaoglan Yilmaz, Fatma Gizem – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2017
Today, the use of social network-based virtual learning communities is increasing rapidly in terms of knowledge management. An important dynamic of knowledge management processes is the knowledge sharing behaviors (KSB) in community. The purpose of this study is to examine the KSB of the students in a Facebook-based virtual community created…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Communities of Practice, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication
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