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Scotland, James – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
A time-series analysis was used to investigate Arabic undergraduate students' (n = 50) perceptions of assessed group work in a major government institution of higher education in Qatar. A longitudinal mixed methods approach was employed. Likert scale questionnaires were completed over the duration of a collaborative writing event. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Collaborative Writing, Foreign Countries
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Wang, Jenny – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
The proposed interactive online group within the cloud computing technologies as a main contribution of this paper provides easy and simple access to the cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) system and delivers effective educational tools for students and teacher on after-class group writing assignment activities. Therefore, this study…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Internet, Computer Software, Information Storage
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Alsubaie, Jawaher; Ashuraidah, Ali – English Language Teaching, 2017
Online teaching and learning became popular with the evolution of the World Wide Web now days. Implementing online learning tools within EFL contexts will help better address the multitude of teaching and learning styles. Difficulty in academic writing can be considered one of the common problems that students face in and outside their classrooms.…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Educational Technology
Sevilla-Pavón, Ana – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2015
The advent of Web 2.0 has fostered the emergence of a new collaborative culture shared by internet users worldwide in which the notions of intertextuality and hypertext have evolved, resulting in the reconsideration of authors and their role in text production. It is becoming increasingly common to access, reinterpret and modify contents and texts…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Collaborative Writing, Story Telling, Technology Uses in Education
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Samuel-Azran, Tal; Ravid, Gilad – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
In light of systematic evidence that extroverts are disadvantaged in the classroom, we examined whether an online environment assignment that builds on extroverts' character strengths can increase their overall course satisfaction. Based on previous studies demonstrating that extroverts are energized by feedback from outsiders, we asked 180…
Descriptors: Student Journals, Electronic Journals, Web Sites, Extraversion Introversion
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Prescott, Lynda – Open Learning, 2016
For students new to higher education, the task of developing their academic writing skills, and particularly the principles and practices of source-referencing, can be daunting. Although institutions and teachers can and do provide positive guidance on this score, all too often students veer into inadvertent plagiarism through lack of confidence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Open Universities, Writing Instruction
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Suwantarathip, Ornprapat; Wichadee, Saovapa – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
Google Docs, a free web-based version of Microsoft Word, offers collaborative features which can be used to facilitate collaborative writing in a foreign language classroom. The current study compared writing abilities of students who collaborated on writing assignments using Google Docs with those working in groups in a face-to-face classroom.…
Descriptors: Writing Ability, Collaborative Writing, Technology Uses in Education, Writing Assignments
Chen, Chwen Jen; Chuah, Kee Man; Tho, Jimmy; Teh, Chee Siong – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2015
Wikis, being one of the popular Web 2.0 tools, have impacted students' engagement and performance particularly in the aspects of second and foreign language learning. While an increasing number of studies have focused on the effectiveness of wiki in improving students' writing skills, this study was conducted to examine the attitudinal factors…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Collaborative Writing, Web Sites, English (Second Language)
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Lo, Hao-Chang – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
The objective of this study was to develop an online report writing activity that was a constructive and cooperative learning process for a course on traditional general physics experiments. Wiki, a CMC authoring tool, was used to construct the writing platform. Fifty-eight undergraduate students (33 men and 25 women), working in randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning, Physics, College Science
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Kitchakarn, Orachorn – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
Due to a rapid development and expansion of technology and, as a result, Web 2.0 technologies are providing both teachers and learners with new solutions to the limitations of traditional method in the field of language teaching and learning. The research compared students' writing ability before and after they were taught through blog, a new…
Descriptors: Writing Ability, Skill Development, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language)
Kathpalia, Sujata Surinder; Heah, Carmel – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2011
Much of the work in academic writing has focused on the cognitive rather than the affective and social aspects involved in project-based writing. Emphasis in past research has been on skills and processes of writing rather than on affective factors such as motivation, attitudes, feelings or social factors involving intrapersonal and interpersonal…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Affective Objectives, Social Influences