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Social Media and Their Use in Learning: A Comparative Analysis between Australia and Malaysia from the Learners' Perspectives
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Balakrishnan, Vimala; Teoh, Kung Keat; Pourshafie, Tahereh; Liew, Teik Kooi – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
This study is an investigation into factors that encourage and/or inhibit the use of social media in the academic learning process between Australian and Malaysian students at higher learning institutions. Push-pull-mooring theory was used as a guide, resulting in seven independent variables ("convenience", "social influence",…
Descriptors: Social Media, Cross Cultural Studies, Path Analysis, Foreign Countries
Modelling Relationships between Students' Academic Achievement and Community of Inquiry in an Online Learning Environment for a Blended Course
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Choy, Jeanette Lyn Fung; Quek, Choon Lang – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
With the advancement in technology, learners are spending a substantial amount of time on online learning. Guided by the community of inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 1999), this study examined the relationships among students' perceived teaching element, social element, cognitive element, satisfaction, continuous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Communities of Practice, Inquiry
The Use of a Mobile Learning Management System at an Online University and Its Effect on Learning Satisfaction and Achievement
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Shin, Won Sug; Kang, Minseok – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
This study investigates online students' acceptance of mobile learning and its influence on learning achievement using an information system success and extended technology acceptance model (TAM). Structural equation modeling was used to test the structure of individual, social, and systemic factors influencing mobile learning's acceptance, and…
Descriptors: Virtual Universities, Electronic Learning, Computer Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Enhancing Student Learning and Success through the Use of Social Networking Technologies, a Design-Based Research Approach
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Lacro, Erika L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Institutions of higher learning are engaged in a difficult process of ensuring that more students are successful in student learning and persist into future coursework. Four-year and two-year institutions differ greatly in their approaches to dealing with academic progress and degree completion. With the integration of a variety of technologies…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Academic Achievement, Colleges, Academic Persistence
Self-Regulation in Online Learning
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Cho, Moon-Heum; Shen, Demei – Distance Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of goal orientation and academic self-efficacy in student achievement mediated by effort regulation, metacognitive regulation, and interaction regulation in an online course. The results show that intrinsic goal orientation and academic self-efficacy predicted students' metacognitive…
Descriptors: Self Management, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Metacognition
Teaching and Learning with Technology: IT as a Value-Added Component of Academic Life
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Sandler, Martin E. – Online Submission, 2010
Effective assessment of teaching and learning with technology requires a capacity to map learning outcomes. Student attitudes of the use of IT are measured in a structural equation model derived from an instrument based on the principles of undergraduate practice of Chickering and Ehrmann (1996). Institutional and background data are included. By…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Path Analysis