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Reinhardt, Wolfgang; Mletzko, Christian; Drachsler, Hendrik; Sloep, Peter B. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
In this article, we describe the rationale, design and evaluation of a widget-based dashboard to support scholars' awareness of their Research Networks. We introduce the concept of a Research Network and discuss Personal Research Environments that are built of as a development parallel to Personal Learning Environments. Based on the results…
Descriptors: Research, Computer Interfaces, Internet, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Schwartz, Lisa H. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
Youths' learner-generated designs, instantiated in digital practices, spaces and artifacts, are underutilized in schools. Additionally, digital media tools are often taken up in reductive ways that serve to perpetuate deficit discourses for youth from nondominant communities, rather than reflect the creativity and innovation that youth practice…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Multiple Literacies, Literacy, High School Students
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Bicen, Hüseyin; Ozdamli, Fezile; Uzunboylu, Hüseyin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
In this study, an e-learning environment was designed for teacher candidates. Teacher candidates developed multimedia-based projects by means of multimedia tools. This research aims to determine the effects of online and blended learning approaches on the success level of multimedia projects and the teacher candidates' attitudes, opinions and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Blended Learning, Multimedia Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Huang, Yueh-Min; Wu, Sheng-Yi – Interactive Learning Environments, 2011
The use of instant messaging to support e-learning will continue to gain importance because of its speed, effectiveness, and low cost. This study developed an MSN agent to mediate and facilitate students' learning in a Web-based course. The students' acceptance of the MSN agent and its effect on learning community identification and learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response), Web Based Instruction, Identification
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Scott, Peter; Castaneda, Linda; Quick, Kevin; Linney, Jon – Interactive Learning Environments, 2009
This paper reports on a naturalistic study of peer-to-peer learning, in a live, online video meeting context. Over a six-month period a group of international students of animation attended 99 live, online "study group" events amounting to around 120 hours of live "broadcast meeting time". Some meetings were very large, with up to 34 participants,…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Teleconferencing, Video Technology, Longitudinal Studies
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Hrastinski, Stefan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2006
Achieving student participation, it has been argued, is one of the most important challenges in distance education. This explorative study examines whether a synchronous communication medium, instant messaging (IM), may enable students to participate more actively in online group work. When comparing two groups that adopted IM with two groups that…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Distance Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Networks