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Salajan, Florin D.; Nyachwaya, James M.; Hoffman, Jeanette G.; Hill, Brent D. – Teacher Educator, 2016
This article examines the implementation of a wiki-type platform for lesson planning for teacher candidates in an undergraduate general instructional methods course in the teacher education program of a Midwestern university in the United States. The study draws on the results of two separate sets of analysis involving 159 participants. Teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education, Lesson Plans, Collaborative Writing
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Mirzaei, Azizullah; Eslami, Zohreh R. – Educational Psychology, 2015
Recent second/foreign language (L2) research has witnessed the application of sociocultural tenets to L2 classrooms. This study aimed to probe whether Iranian L2 learners' engagement in ZPD-activated collaborative dialogue, or "languaging", mediates their learning process and, specifically, their appropriate use of metadiscourse to…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Second Language Learning, Sociocultural Patterns, Collaborative Writing
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Prokofieva, Maria – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Wiki technology has been promoted as a collaborative software platform. This study investigates interactions that occur in a wiki-based collaborative learning project. The study draws on interaction literature and investigates the types of interactions with which students are engaged in wiki-based group projects, clusters that reflect online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Interpersonal Communication, Statistical Analysis
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Biasutti, Michele; EL-Deghaidy, Heba – Computers & Education, 2012
The current study reports on the use of Wiki as an online didactic tool to develop knowledge management (KM) processes in higher education. This study integrates social constructivist principles to learning where learners are pro-active and collaborative through higher order cognitive processes. The study was administered in two countries, namely…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Constructivism (Learning), Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
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Garcia-Sanchez, Soraya; Rojas-Lizana, Sol – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2012
This article aims to demonstrate how the use of an online journal, a bilingual blog, can contribute to filling in the language and cultural gaps of foreign language learners. This case study focuses on the participation, interaction, motivation, language acquisition, feedback and cultural input improved by students of Spanish as a Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, Web Sites