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Direct linkLinda E. Rohr; Jane Costello; Laura Squires – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2024
Online asynchronous courses require close attention to course design to ensure there are strategies in place to foster social presence to build stronger senses of community and to motivate students to engage (content, peers and instructors). Judicious use of social media may serve this purpose. Since its inception, social media, Twitter in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Media, Web Sites, Distance Education
Trespalacios, Jesús; Uribe-Flórez, Lida J. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2020
The analysis of case studies is an important constructivist instructional strategy that shows potential for engaging students in asynchronous online discussions. However, little is known about the use of audio-based discussions to promote this type of analysis. Twenty-nine students from two sections enrolled in an online instructional design…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Instructional Design, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication
Barreto, Daisyane; Oyarzun, Beth; Conklin, Sheri – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2022
Although online learning has increased as a delivery method of instruction in higher education, learners may still feel isolated from the instructor and peers due to a lack of physical presence. Thus, intentional and purposeful online course design is necessary. To remediate feelings of isolation, cooperative learning strategies have been…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Teaching Methods
Kabat, Katalin J. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
The present study investigates the temporal elements affecting asynchronous discussion board messages over a semester, ways in which time is contextualized in space and content, and students' spatio-temporal practices within fixed frames. The theoretical framework uses Lefebvre's rhythm analysis, Bakhtin's chronotope, and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Discussion Groups, Asynchronous Communication, Time
Kumar, Swapna; Ritzhaupt, Albert D. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
A cohort-based online professional doctorate program that consisted of both online coursework and research activities was designed using Garrison et al's community of inquiry (CoI) framework. The evaluation of the program proved a challenge because all existing CoI assessment methods in the past have dealt with online courses, not with online…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Electronic Learning, Doctoral Programs
Rockinson-Szapkiw, Amanda J. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2012
As higher education institutions enter the intense competition of the rapidly growing global marketplace of online education, the leaders within these institutions are challenged to identify factors critical for developing and for maintaining effective online courses. Computer-mediated communication (CMC) systems are considered critical to…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Online Courses, Performance Factors, Performance Technology
