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Vimala Judy Kamalodeen – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
This case study focuses on issues and dilemmas I faced when collecting data on a social networking site that enabled sociability, communication, and collaboration among teachers. To understand teacher online participation, I used an eclectic mixed-methods design with three phases to collect qualitative and quantitative data. This design allowed me…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Research Methodology, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication
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Smith, Cindy Ann; Willox, Lara; Olds, Courtney – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2017
The field of mentoring includes a broad base of stakeholders, such as researchers and practitioners who implement mentoring programs. The research-to-practice gap is an ongoing area of concern in many fields of social science including mentoring. One reason for this is that researchers and practitioners often operate in isolation. Technology is…
Descriptors: Mentors, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Social Networks
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Cankaya, Serkan; Yunkul, Eyup – International Education Studies, 2018
The purpose of this study was to reveal the attitudes and views of university students about the use of Edmodo as a cooperative learning environment. In the research process, the students were divided into groups of 4 or 5 within the scope of a course given in the department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology. For each group,…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Cooperative Learning, Student Attitudes, Semi Structured Interviews
Smith, Saress Ellerbe – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this qualitative study was to look at how teachers use micro-blogging, in this case Twitter (www.twitter.com), for their own personalized professional learning and how effective Twitter is as a professional development (PD) tool. In order to measure the effectiveness of the tool, the researcher first gleaned nine essential…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Social Media, Educational Technology
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Colwell, Jamie; Woodward, Lindsay; Hutchison, Amy – Online Learning, 2018
This research used an inductive qualitative method to examine how adolescents participated in online literature discussion, with limited guidance from adults, through a summer reading program. Using a New Literacies framework, the authors considered that literacy is social and collaborative and that adolescents often engage in such literacy…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Recreational Reading, Summer Programs, Public Libraries
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Heffel, Carly J.; Riggs, Shelley A.; Ruiz, John M.; Ruggles, Mark – Contemporary School Psychology, 2015
Although suicide clusters have been identified in many populations, research exploring the role of online communication in the aftermath of a suicide cluster is extremely limited. This study used the Consensual Qualitative Research method to analyze interviews with ten high school students 1 year after a suicide cluster in a small suburban school…
Descriptors: Suicide, Social Networks, Qualitative Research, Interviews
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Ellefsen, Lasse – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This paper reports the complete process for and findings resulting from an individual-led research project entitled "An Investigation into Perceptions of Facebook-use in Higher Education." The aim of the research project was primarily to investigate current perceptions of using Facebook as a means for interaction between students and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Higher Education, Teacher Student Relationship
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Beadle, Hazel – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
Using qualitative data gathered through 144 questionnaires completed online by education sector personnel, this paper examines the relevance of a definition of e-working to the educational context. It identifies that the definition, which draws on and extends existing knowledge and identifies e-working to be a way of being a worker as well as a…
Descriptors: Teleworking, Computer Use, Questionnaires, School Personnel
Dailey, Kimberli Simmemon – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study described the impact of collaboration and technology-based communication on the professional experiences of rural middle school classroom teachers. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to determine if technology-based tools, such as online discussion boards, email, social networking sites, and short message…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Middle School Teachers, Hermeneutics, Teacher Collaboration
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Habibi, Akhmad; Mukinin, Amirul; Riyanto, Yatim; Prasohjo, Lantip Diat; Sulistiyo, Urip; Sofwan, Muhammad; Saudagar, Ferdiaz – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
This inquiry examined student teachers' perceptions on the advantages of using Social Networking Services (SNS) in an English teacher education program at a public university in Jambi, Indonesia to ease the communication, supervision, discussion, and report submissions between supervisors and student teachers. The networking types included in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Teacher Attitudes, Educational Benefits
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Shakarami, Alireza; Hajhashemi, Karim; Caltabiano, Nerina – International Journal of Instruction, 2016
Analysis of the linguistic discourse plays an important role in the social, cultural, ethnographic, and comparative studies of languages. Discourse markers as indispensable parts of this analysis are reportedly more common in informal speech than in written language. They could be used at different levels, i.e. as "linking words,"…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Arndt, Katrina; Parker, Amy – American Annals of the Deaf, 2016
Findings are presented from a descriptive qualitative study of 10 adults who were deafblind who were interviewed about their social lives. Additional data were collected from a discussion board and e-mails from the study participants. Three findings emerged from the data: (a) Navigating adaptations was a significant part of socialization. (b) Gaps…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Deaf Blind, Social Networks
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Ferguson, Hazel; Wheat, Katherine L. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
Early career academics around the world frequently see themselves as being in need of targeted career support to navigate the years directly following PhD graduation. The growth of discussion groups on Twitter that target these users raises questions about their potential usefulness to address career development support needs. This paper reflects…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Career Development, Discussion Groups
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Chen, Hsin-I – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This article presents a case study that examines how an online social networking community is constituted through intercultural discourse on the part of one learner sojourning in the US. Using Byram's model of intercultural communicative competence, this study examines the learner's naturalistic communication in a social networking site (SNS). The…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Multilingualism
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Granados, Nadia R. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2017
Using qualitative methodology, this research examines how graduates of a K-5 dual language immersion program have experienced multiple and competing social, cultural, institutional, and political forces at play in complex processes that ultimately affect one's mobilities of language, literacy, and learning. These students have now grown into…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning
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