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Shugang Li; Kexin Peng; Boyi Zhu; Fang Liu – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
In the digital age, online learning platforms utilizing advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence can provide more diverse and abundant educational resources compared to offline learning environments. However, online learners still face emotional expression and inertia trap problems. Knowledge co-creation virtual teachers (KCVTs) can…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction
Hermosisima, Mary Chandra R.; Mobo, Froilan D.; Cutillas, Anesito L. – Online Submission, 2023
This study explores the integration of technology platforms in online modular learning and proposes an enhanced learning continuity framework using online teaching as an alternative delivery modality. The study captures participants' experiences related to online modular education through surveys by employing a qualitative approach. The findings…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Online Courses, Videoconferencing, Delivery Systems
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Chen, Jingjing; Xu, Jianliang; Tang, Tao; Chen, Rongchao – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
Interaction is critical for successful teaching and learning in a virtual learning environment (VLE). This paper presents a web-based interaction-aware VLE--WebIntera-classroom--which aims to augment learning interactions by increasing the learner-to-content and learner-to-instructor interactions. We design a ubiquitous interactive interface that…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Interaction, Web Based Instruction, Computer Interfaces
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Chuang, Chien-Pen; Jou, Min; Lin, Yen-Ting; Lu, Cheng-Tien – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
Electronic engineering industries require technical specialists to operate precision electronic instruments. However, limitations in course designs and equipment availability mean that only a few students are able to use the equipment in practical lessons within a limited timeframe. Also, instruction of techniques and skills are still mostly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Technical Education, Context Effect
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Kanuka, Heather – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2011
In this special issue, I bring together two studies to provide a comprehensive overview on diverse and interactive instructional methods aimed to facilitate higher levels of learning. One study explored the effects of group interaction using different instructional strategies focusing on the learning "process" using the Community of Inquiry…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Group Dynamics, Interaction, Inquiry
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Roseth, Cary; Akcaoglu, Mete; Zellner, Andrea – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2013
Online education is often assumed to be synonymous with asynchronous instruction, existing apart from or supplementary to face-to-face instruction in traditional bricks-and-mortar classrooms. However, expanding access to computer-mediated communication technologies now make new models possible, including distance learners synchronous online…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Videoconferencing, Blended Learning
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Silva, Juan – International Education Studies, 2013
The study of interactions regarding on-line environments for education is an area of research that has being developing during the last years in order to know the type of interactions that take place in discussion forums. Interactions analysis is important in order to know and to understand knowledge construction process in a virtual space.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Interaction
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Wei, Chun-Wang; Chen, Nian-Shing; Kinshuk, – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
It is now possible to create flexible learning environments without time and distance barriers on the internet. However, research has shown that learners typically experience isolation and alienation in online learning environments. These negative experiences can be reduced by enhancing social presence. In order to better facilitate the perceived…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cues, Structural Equation Models, Online Courses
Vytlacil, Kerrie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With virtual public school initiatives in each of the 50 states, there is an impetus to develop and implement online programs for the elementary grades (Cavanaugh, 2004, pp. 262-266; Oliver et al., p. 56). Yet, learner usability characteristics for successful online schooling for the elementary grades are unknown and/or unspecified. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Elementary Education, Qualitative Research, Delphi Technique
Snyder, Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Coaching is a powerful tool for improving special education teachers' use of evidence-based practices. Recent technological advances have great potential to influence the manner in which coaching is implemented. Virtual coaching is an innovative cycle of coaching that utilizes video-conferencing and bug-in-ear technology in internet-mediated…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Special Education Teachers, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Special Education
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Knutzen, Brant; Kennedy, David – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
This paper reports the progress of a pilot project exploring the integration of a collaborative virtual learning environment (Second Life) with the instruction of English courses at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. An educational partnership was developed with two TESOL teacher-training courses at Texas A&M University in the US. The project…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Pilot Projects, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries
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Hampel, Regine; Stickler, Ursula – ReCALL, 2012
The introduction of virtual learning environments has made new tools available that have the potential to support learner communication and interaction, thus aiding second language acquisition both from a psycholinguistic and a sociocultural point of view. This article focuses on the use of videoconferencing in the context of a larger exploratory…
Descriptors: Expertise, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Learning Modalities
Tran, Tan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Web-based learning progresses as access to the Internet grows. As learners and educators in virtual learning communities, we strive for ways to measure how well teachers teach and learners learn. While the literature is replete with articles and books discussing online learning from the perspective of social and teaching presence, there are few…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Online Courses, Course Content
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Sullivan, Florence R.; Hamilton, Claire E.; Allessio, Danielle A.; Boit, Rachel J.; Deschamps, Alexandra D.; Sindelar, Tony; Vargas Ramos, German E.; Randall, Anthony; Wilson, Nicholas; Zhu, Yan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
In this paper we report the results of a study which investigated the affordances of multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) for collaborative learning from a design perspective. Utilizing a mixed methods approach, we conducted a comparative study of the effect of varying representational and interactional design features on a collaborative design…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Interaction, Child Development, Problem Solving
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Mashhour, Ahmad; Saleh, Zakaria – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2010
E-learning has been a hot topic for academics, technical researches, and practices because there is a need to employ advancements in technologies to support the education process and help academics and universities. E-learning, together with classical learning, can further enhance the learning process through the benefits of the new technologies.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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