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Gorgun, Guher; Yildirim-Erbasli, Seyma N.; Epp, Carrie Demmans – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
The need to identify student cognitive engagement in online-learning settings has increased with our use of online learning approaches because engagement plays an important role in ensuring student success in these environments. Engaged students are more likely to complete online courses successfully, but this setting makes it more difficult for…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Group Discussion, Learner Engagement, Student Participation
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Raman, Preeti; Avery, Teresa; Brett, Clare; Hewitt, James – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2020
Growing interest in online learning has instructors looking for new ways to engage learners in asynchronous discussions. Building on experiences with hashtag use to connect on social media platforms, the purpose of this study is to investigate the contexts of hashtag use and its associated impact on learner engagement in asynchronous online…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Discussion
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Egan, Rylan; Stockley, Denise; Brouwer, Brenda; Tripp, Dean; Stechyson, Natalie – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
This article has its origins in exit surveys of 1335 graduate students (283 PhD and 1052 Master's) conducted at a mid-sized Canadian university from 1996 to 2005. The article explores the relationship between the perceived effectiveness of graduate supervision and the disciplinary background of graduate students. Students are categorized into four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Models, Supervisory Methods
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Bures, Eva Mary; Schmid, Richard F.; Abrami, Philip C. – Educational Media International, 2009
This study explores a labelling feature that allows students to tag parts of their online messages. Data comes from four sequentially offered sessions of a graduate education course. Students engaged in two to three online activities in groups of three or four. Students (n = 53) contributed from 0 to 56 labels (M = 12.42, SD = 13.50) and 18 to 114…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Graduate Students, Education Courses
Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto. Research Div. – 1981
Data on the financial support received in 1979-80 by full-time graduate students in each of four divisions within each Ontario, Canada, university are presented. Data are provided on: full-time graduate student enrollments by university and division; percentage of students in each income range by university for each division; percentage of…
Descriptors: Classification, Endowment Funds, Enrollment Trends, Federal Aid
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Fox, Eric J.; Sullivan, Howard J. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare traditional classification training for a set of abstract concepts with multiple-relations training consisting of inference practice and the use of a content diagram. To examine this, 200 undergraduate and graduate psychology students completed a Web-based tutorial covering the abstract concepts of a…
Descriptors: Classification, Psychology, Internet, Higher Education