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Burns, Adrienne; Holford, Peter; Andronicos, Nicholas – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
The transition to tertiary level learning requires students take responsibility for their own learning and independently synthesise conceptual knowledge specific to their discipline. We designed an interactive online lesson that aimed to build student engagement and foster self-regulation of understanding for a foundation concept in molecular…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, STEM Education, Fundamental Concepts, Independent Study
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Chen, Chih-Ming; Wang, Jung-Ying – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Many studies have shown that learners' sustained attention strongly affects e-learning performance, particularly during online synchronous instruction. This work thus develops a novel attention monitoring and alarm mechanism (AMAM) based on brainwave signals to improve learning performance via monitoring the attention state of individual learners…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Web Based Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
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Nagel, L.; Blignaut, A. S.; Cronje, J. C. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2009
The establishment of an online community is widely held as the most important prerequisite for successful course completion and depends on an interaction between a peer group and a facilitator. Beaudoin reasoned that online students sometimes engage and learn even when not taking part in online discussions. The context of this study was an online…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Online Courses, Peer Relationship, Educational Technology
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Wang, Qiyun; Woo, Huay Lit; Zhao, Jianhua – Interactive Learning Environments, 2009
Critical thinking and knowledge construction have become essential competencies for people in the new information age. In this study, we designed an interactive learning environment involving three forms of interaction: individual reflections, group collaboration and, class discussions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to…
Descriptors: Interaction, Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Content Analysis