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Staley, John; Moyer-Packenham, Patricia; Lynch, Monique C. – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2005
The Internet, an exciting and radically different medium infiltrating pop culture, business, and education, is also a powerful educational tool with teaching and learning potential for mathematics. Web-based instructional tools allow students and teachers to actively and interactively participate in the learning process (Lynch, Moyer, Frye & Suh,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Statistics, Problem Solving, Technology Integration
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Lord, Gillian; Lomicka, Lara L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
Computer-mediated exchange and interaction have become topics of debate and discussion in the past several years due to the growing interest in synchronous and asynchronous communication and their role in language acquisition, learning, and teaching (Liu, Moore, Graham, & Lee, 2002). This article offers a model for a collaborative course on…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Graduate Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Roberts, Amy – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2004
The article documents a two-year interpretive case study of fourth through sixth grade students engaged in a problem-based telecollaboration exchange between classrooms in Laramie, Wyoming, and Monteverde, Costa Rica. Problem-based learning was viewed in concert with a constructivist perspective to guide examination of global issues. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Computer Uses in Education, Virtual Classrooms
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McLuckie, J.; Topping, K. J. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2004
Efforts to enhance learning through peer interaction in an electronic forum are now commonplace. However, facilitation and moderation of such a forum by academic staff can be of limited effectiveness and very time-consuming. The skills required by peer learners to effectively manage such distributed discourse for themselves have rarely been…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Internet, Tutoring, Instructional Effectiveness
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Wright, Eric R.; Lawson, Anthony H. – Teaching Sociology, 2005
Over the past several years, scholars of teaching and learning have demonstrated the potential of collaborative learning strategies for improving student learning. This paper examines the use of computer-mediated communication to promote collaborative student learning in large introductory sociology courses. Specifically, we summarize a project we…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies, Cooperative Learning
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Gorsky, Paul; Caspi, Avner – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
This investigation reviews published empirical studies that attempted to support or to validate transactional distance theory (Moore, 1993). It was found that either data only partially supported the theory or, that if they apparently did so, the studies lacked reliability, construct validity, or both. It was concluded that the basic propositions…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Construct Validity, Validity, Criticism
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Ortiz-Rodriguez, Madeline; Telg, Ricky W.; Irani, Tracy; Roberts, T. Grady; Rhoades, Emily – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
Quality in distance education has been studied mostly from a top-down approach, from administration and faculty to students. This study was an attempt to understand quality through the eyes of the distance learner. This study identified undergraduate and graduate students' perceptions about quality in distance education, examining factors…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Quality
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Zavbi, Rdoman; Tavcar, Joze – Computers and Education, 2005
The development of innovative and competitive products and mastery of IT&T technologies are crucial for a company's long-term success in the global market. The main flag bearers for development are product developers, but it is questionable whether the existing systems are appropriate for the education of such professionals. For example, one…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Undergraduate Students, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
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Lepage, Pamela; Robinson, Paulette – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2005
Today teacher educators emphasize the need for preservice teachers to develop certain habits of mind (like reflection) in order to be effective teachers. These educators are constantly searching for pedagogical strategies that can help teachers quickly learn, understand, and take to heart important dispositions. This article describes a three-year…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Inservice Teacher Education, Masters Programs, Teleconferencing
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Mallen, Michael J.; Vogel, David L.; Rochlen, Aaron B. – Counseling Psychologist, 2005
This article addresses the practical aspects of online counseling, including ethics, training, supervision, technology, and competency issues. The authors discuss online counseling's strengths and limitations and present guidelines for what types of clients and counseling psychologists may be appropriate for online counseling. To illustrate the…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Ethics, Counseling Psychology, Counseling Techniques
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Bradley, Karen – New Directions for Youth Development, 2005
Adolescents nowadays socialize, network, and sort out their friendships and relationships online. As such, it is assumed that adolescents' experiences in the online world will influence their experiences in the face-to-face world and will play an important role in their development of social and moral knowledge. In this article, the author…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Social Environment, Internet
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Joiner, Richard; Jones, Sarah – International Journal of Educational Research, 2003
The aim of this paper is to compare the effects of different communication media on the quality of arguments and the development of argumentative reasoning. The study involved 73 undergraduate students. It consisted of a pre-test, an intervention session consisting of either an asynchronous online discussion or a face-to-face discussion, and a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Persuasive Discourse, Seminars, Models
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Schuck, Sandra – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2003
Many mathematics educators share a view of mathematics as a social and cultural phenomenon and believe that the learning of mathematics concepts is developed and enhanced through the use of learning communities. Electronic discussion boards provide one avenue for supporting such social learning. This paper discusses the use of a Question and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Computer Mediated Communication
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Hung, David; Looi, Chee-Kit; Koh, Thiam-Seng – Educational Technology & Society, 2004
This paper considers the work of Martin Heidegger and its relation to situated cognition. The motivation for the paper springs from the perceived misconception that many educators have on situated cognition by applying situated learning strategies in a dualistic orientation, whereas situated cognition is fundamentally relativist (non-dualistic) in…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Learning Strategies, Epistemology, Communities of Practice
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Allan, Mary – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004
Supporting quality learning in online discussion forums is an intricate task, particularly for e-tutors aspiring to facilitate vigorous interactive learning environments. I argue that the key to successful online discussion forums is the ability of e-tutors to provide learners with feedback well informed in the meaning making and knowledge…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Online Courses
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