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Direct linkHuang, Kun; Law, Victor – American Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Much is known about help seeking in face-to-face classrooms, but there is a limited understanding about how learners seek and provide help online. This study implemented a peer-help forum in an online technology course, and investigated students' engagement in the forum, their perceptions, and the relationship between peer help and course…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Help Seeking, Online Courses, Technology Education
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
Wanstreet, Constance E.; Stein, David S. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2011
This study investigated the small-group, learner-led discussion process in synchronous discussions. Transcripts from online chats and face-to-face discussions were analyzed within the context of the Community of Inquiry framework to examine the relationship of teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence to one another and for…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Inquiry, Models, Asynchronous Communication
Dorner, Helga – American Journal of Distance Education, 2012
This study examines online mentor roles and effects with the online mentoring process in computer-supported collaborative learning environments in communities of in-service teachers. Interest in the online mentors' activity encompassed their participation in the online interactions, the influence of their activity on participants' patterns of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction, Mentors
Hampel, Robert L. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2009
As enrollments in correspondence schools soared in the early twentieth century, unethical practices marred the reputation of this type of learning. Prominent schools created the National Home Study Council in 1926 to combat the proliferation of sham schools. At the same time, council members knew that the better schools also needed to change their…
Descriptors: Correspondence Schools, Home Study, Content Analysis, Marketing
Oriogun, Peter K. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2009
In this article, the community of inquiry cognitive presence model was mapped to a recently developed semistructured approach to online discourse called SQUAD to detect aspects of critical or higher-order thinking online by cleaning online message transcript through the use of code-recode. It is argued that using code-recode in the way suggested…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Thinking Skills, Transcripts (Written Records), Coding
