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Chang, Hsin-Yi; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2023
The study employed epistemic network analysis (ENA) to investigate students' conceptions of science learning with technology. One-hundred and eleven tenth-grade students were asked to express via drawings their conceptions of experienced and ideal learning of science with technology. Their drawings were coded into 20 elements in seven categories.…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Network Analysis, Freehand Drawing, Student Attitudes
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Darmawansah Darmawansah; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Chi-Jen Lin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Dialectical thinking is a way of discussing and analyzing things from different viewpoints to reach a solution. It is often taught in language courses by conducting argumentation activities. However, without providing effective strategies or tools, learners generally encounter difficulties in structuring their viewpoints during the argumentation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Hatzipanagos, Stylianos; John, Bernadette A. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2017
In this paper we report on the evaluation of an institutional social network (KINSHIP) whose aims were to foster an improved sense of community, enhance communication and serve as a space to model digital professionalism for students at King's College London, UK. Our evaluation focused on a pilot where students' needs with regard to the provision…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Sense of Community, Institutional Characteristics, Pilot Projects
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Caple, Helen; Bogle, Mike – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2013
This paper investigates the use of new media technologies, in particular wikis, for the compiling and grading of group assessment tasks. Wikis are open web pages that can be viewed and modified by anyone with internet access and are well known for their collaborative nature. Wikis are also transparent, which means that any edit/modification is…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Group Testing, Grading, Technology Uses in Education
Coklar, Ahmet Naci – Online Submission, 2012
Taking cognizance of the transformation experienced in education technologies, the concept that comes into prominence in integration of ICTs to education process at present is web 2.0. The main philosophy of web 2.0 technologies is its contribution to content formation of users and high-level interaction between users. One of web 2.0 technologies…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Environment, Web 2.0 Technologies, Network Analysis
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2019
For the forty-second time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains 37 papers dealing…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Research and Development, Elementary Education
Qiu, Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The study explores factors that enhance or inhibit the language adjustment of international students in the U.S. Using social network influence model, the study examines the effects of language resources, language norm, and technology use on international students' self-confidence in overall English skills and four subskills, namely, listening,…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Educational Technology, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Poellhuber, Bruno; Anderson, Terry – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the use of social networking tools (e.g., Facebook) and social media in general, mainly for social purposes (Smith, Salaway & Caruso 2009). Many educators, including ourselves, believe that these tools offer new educational affordances and avenues for students to interact with each other and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Social Integration, Distance Education, Questionnaires
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Shen, Demei; Nuankhieo, Piyanan; Huang, Xinxin; Amelung, Christopher; Laffey, James – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2008
This study uses social network analysis (SNA) in an innovative way to describe interaction and explain how interaction influences sense of community of students in online learning environments. The findings reveal differences on sense of community between two similarly structured online courses, and show unique interaction patterns for students in…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Online Courses, Interaction, Social Networks
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2011
For the thirty-fourth year, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, FL. A limited quantity of these Proceedings were printed and sold in both hardcopy and electronic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Educational Technology, Conference Papers