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Dudak, Brian – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This research project investigated graduate faculty members' perceptions of online teaching. The participants were five graduate faculty members from a religious graduate school located in the mid-south. The project was a qualitative study guided by the phenomenological framework. The methods used to gather data were individual interviews and a…
Descriptors: Working Hours, Online Courses, Teaching Experience, Mentors
Barkand, Jonathan; Kush, Joseph – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2009
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are becoming increasingly popular in online education environments and have multiple pedagogical advantages over more traditional approaches to education. VLEs include 3D worlds where students can engage in simulated learning activities such as Second Life. According to Claudia L'Amoreaux at Linden Lab, "at…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Secondary Schools, Educational Games, Educational Environment
Heo, Misook – International Journal on E-Learning, 2009
This article examined online learners' preferences in personalized, relationship-based social awareness information sharing in course management systems. Three hundred seventy-seven online learners' willingness to share social awareness information was measured through a national survey. Results indicated that today's online learners are open…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Instructional Design, Integrated Learning Systems
Yeh, Yu-Chu – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
Online learning communities are an important means of sharing and creating knowledge. Online behaviors and online roles can reveal how online learning communities function. However, no study has elucidated the relationships among online behaviors, online roles, and online learning communities. In this study, 32 preservice teachers participated in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Preservice Teachers, Student Behavior, Teacher Behavior
Ertmer, Peggy A.; Richardson, Jennifer C.; Lehman, James D.; Newby, Timothy J.; Cheng, Xi; Mong, Christopher; Sadaf, Ayesha – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
This study examined students' perceptions of peer feedback and learning in a large, undergraduate course that incorporated supplementary online discussions. Peer feedback (PF) was facilitated via an automated rating system, within Blackboard discussion forums, for half of the students enrolled in the course. Following the peer feedback process,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Peer Evaluation, Education Courses
Starkey, Hugh; Savvides, Nicola – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2009
This article evaluates ways in which students on an online Master's programme are learning about citizenship and developing intercultural awareness in spite of the lack of face-to-face interaction. There is still debate about the effectiveness of online courses and whether they provide an adequate substitute for, or even an improvement on,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cultural Awareness, Citizenship Education, Masters Programs
Bloemer, Bill – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2009
This case study describes the philosophy underlying the delivery of online programs and courses at the University of Illinois-Springfield. The strategies used to implement the UIS model and the measures used to validate its success are outlined. These factors are reviewed in the context of the Sloan-C Five Pillars for quality learning environments.
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Online Courses, Educational Practices, College Instruction
Redekopp, Reynold; Bourbonniere, Elizabeth – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2009
All teachers know them--the students who sit in the back of the room and never make a peep. If prodded, they may reluctantly offer a comment or opinion, but they are so obviously uncomfortable about participating that a teacher may wonder if it is even worth trying to engage them. Are they unprepared or just shy? Do they lack ideas or merely need…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Class Activities, Electronic Publishing, Student Attitudes
Chen, Der-Thanq; Wang, Yu-Mei; Hung, David – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2009
Research on asynchronous online discussions has primarily focused on their efficacy in relation to learning outcomes. Rarely are there investigations on how the design of online learning activities or how discussions could be incorporated into student learning experience. We contend that successful online activities need careful and meticulous…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Experience, Group Discussion, Guidelines
Ajayi, Lasisi – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
Pre-service teachers' perceptions of their own learning are important to the ways they integrate technology into their practices. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the pre-service teachers' perspectives of asynchronous discussion board (ADB) as a tool of learning to teach. ADB was integrated into two literacy courses for 33…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Asynchronous Communication
Journell, Wayne – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2008
This study examines the effectiveness of asynchronous communication in facilitating historical discussions among adolescents, with a specific focus on the ways in which teachers can affect this process. Threaded discussion board posts and teacher-student email correspondence from a five-week American history summer course are analyzed and…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Asynchronous Communication, United States History, Computer Mediated Communication
Yeo, Tiong Meng; Quek, Choon Lang – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
This study investigates how 15 Design & Technology (D&T) students (aged 15 years) participated in three stages of the design process in a technology mediated environment. The three stages are named "Situation," "Ideation" and "Development." The learning process is mediated by "Knowledge Forum" (KF),…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis
Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Shield, Lesley – ReCALL, 2008
Mobile learning is undergoing rapid evolution. While early generations of mobile learning tended to propose activities that were carefully crafted by educators and technologists, learners are increasingly motivated by their personal learning needs, including those arising from greater mobility and frequent travel. At the same time, it is often…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Activities, Internet
Thomas, David A.; Li, Qing – Computers in the Schools, 2008
The World Wide Web is evolving in response to users who demand faster and more efficient access to information, portability, and reusability of digital objects between Web-based and computer-based applications and powerful communication, publication, collaboration, and teaching and learning tools. This article reviews current uses of Web-based…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Mathematics Education, Distance Education, Mathematics Teachers
Murillo, Enrique – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: This research set out to determine whether communities of practice can be entirely Internet-based by formally applying Wenger's theoretical framework to Internet collectives. Method: A model of a virtual community of practice was developed which included the constructs Wenger identified in co-located communities of practice: mutual…
Descriptors: Information Science, Interaction, Content Analysis, Construct Validity