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Abualrob, Marwan; Nazzal, Safa – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2020
The aim of the study is to assess the extent to which WhatsApp Instant Messaging is used to teach chemistry and biology to the tenth-grade students. A mixed approach was used, whereby the authors drew on the content analysis model to analyze quantitative data. The sample consisted of 28 Palestinian tenth-grade students and their teachers, who used…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Grade 10, High School Students, Teaching Methods
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Singh, Vandana; Thurman, Alexander – American Journal of Distance Education, 2019
Online learning as a concept and as a keyword has consistently been a focus of education research for over two decades. In this paper, we present results from a systematic literature review for the definitions of online learning because the concept of online learning, though often defined, has a range of meanings attached to it. Authors and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Definitions, Content Analysis, Literature Reviews
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Carr, Tony; Ludvigsen, Sten Runar – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2017
This article analyses participant experiences and statements about perceived problems in two online conferences to identify tensions and disturbances relating to external factors, conference technology, online discussions and design choices and then considers the underlying contradictions within the conference systems which generate both positive…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Teleconferencing, Social Theories, Computer Mediated Communication
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Ghadirian, Hajar; Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
This study explored patterns of e-moderating behaviour students performed when they were assigned as peer moderators of asynchronous online discussions in a reciprocal manner. Eighty-four students from an undergraduate blended course were observed during a 7-week-long online discussions. Using quantitative content analysis peer moderators'…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Computer Mediated Communication, Student Behavior, Asynchronous Communication
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Costley, Jamie; Lange, Christopher – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2016
Understanding the relationship between social presence and critical thinking is useful for gaining insight into the interaction and discourse of learners online. Further study of how these two presences interact is important because research has shown a wide variety of relationships, both positive and negative, between social presence and critical…
Descriptors: Correlation, Interpersonal Relationship, Critical Thinking, Electronic Learning
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Titarenko, Larissa; Little, Craig B. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2017
"Study abroad" college programs can transform domestic students into a kind of "global citizens" with international experience and cross-cultural competences demanded in the emerging global market. Can a full-time international online undergraduate class serve as a virtual alternative to study abroad experience? Two questions…
Descriptors: College Students, Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness, Global Approach
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Annamalai, Nagaletchimee – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2017
Purpose: This study aims to explore how the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model (2000) is used to categorize students' and teachers' interactions in an asynchronous discussion and how these interactions are able to help students add quality to their narrative writing. Design/methodology/approach: The interactions were categorized based on teaching,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interaction
Watson, Firm Faith Saint Annie – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Students' satisfaction is a very important indicator of the caliber of online courses, a learning modality which has escalated in the last decade. Satisfaction, however, is a complex construct and most related studies assume that satisfaction is the opposite of dissatisfaction. An alternative view from the area of organizational psychology was…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Online Courses, College Students, Student Surveys
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Ghadirian, Hajar; Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd; Bakar, Kamariah Binti Abu; Hassanzadeh, Maryam – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This study presents a case study of asynchronous online discussions' (AOD) growth patterns in an undergraduate blended course to address the gap in our current understanding of how threads are developed in peer-moderated AODs. Building on a taxonomy of thread pattern proposed by Chan, Hew and Cheung (2009), growth patterns of thirty-six forums…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Blended Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Azevedo, Breno T.; Reategui, Eliseo; Behar, Patrícia A. – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2014
This paper presents ForumMiner, a tool for the automatic analysis of students' posts in asynchronous discussions. ForumMiner uses a text mining system to extract graphs from texts that are given to students as a basis for their discussion. These graphs contain the most relevant terms found in the texts, as well as the relationships between them.…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Content Analysis, Graphs
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Bonnici, Laurie J.; Maatta, Stephanie L.; Klose, M. Katherine; Julien, Heidi; Bajjaly, Stephen – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
This case study examined student preference for delivery mode of online courses in two graduate degree programs in Library and Information Science. Within-group and between-groups comparisons indicated a distinct preference across the institutions. Findings from focus groups conducted with two cohorts of students enrolled in a federally funded…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Graduate Students, Comparative Analysis, Focus Groups
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Crosta, Lucilla; Manokore, Viola; Gray, Morag – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2016
The current study explored the interaction patterns of a cohort of international students in a Professional Doctorate of Higher Education program (EdD) in order to establish the extent to which (if at all) the cohort evolved into an authentic online learning community. Phase 1 of the study consisted of a retrospective audit of three out of the…
Descriptors: Interaction, Foreign Students, Doctoral Programs, Communities of Practice
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Yilmaz, Ozkan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
A variety of e-learning theories, models, and strategy have been developed to support educational settings. There are many factors for designing good instructional settings. This study set out to determine functionality of mobile devices, students who already have, and the student needs and views in relation to e-learning settings. The study…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education
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Cote Parra, Gabriel Eduardo – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
The purpose of this action research was to explore the types of interactions that foreign language learners experience while using a wiki as a supporting tool for a face-to-face research course. This design allowed me to play a dual role: first, I studied my own classroom setting and students. Second, I implemented a pedagogical intervention based…
Descriptors: Action Research, Interaction, Second Language Learning, Educational Technology
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Chiu, Ming Ming; Fujita, Nobuko – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2014
Online forums (synchronous and asynchronous) offer exciting data opportunities to analyze how people influence one another through their interactions. However, researchers must address several analytic difficulties involving the data (missing values, nested structure [messages within topics], non-sequential messages), outcome variables (discrete…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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