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Al-Hunayan, Jinan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The outbreak of COVID-19 forced the world population to find new ways to improve their productivity. It also significantly changed the course of education and instruction entirely. Like many students worldwide, adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students have been dramatically impacted by the sudden switch to online courses due to the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, COVID-19
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Karaaslan, Hatice; Kilic, Nurseven; Guven-Yalcin, Gamze; Gullu, Abdulkadir – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Many learners are now quite digitally skilled. However, this does not entail that they know how to learn through digital technologies. Therefore, establishing an interactive virtual learning platform that connects everyone together in a classroom environment and helping learners become familiar with such media might serve a set of purposes in any…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Vocabulary Development, Educational Games
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Ndlovu, Mdutshekelwa C.; Mostert, Ingrid – Africa Education Review, 2018
The purpose of this article is to analyse teachers' perceptions of using the modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment (Moodle) platform as a learning management system in a small-scale blended learning (b-learning) Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) programme for in-service secondary school mathematics teachers in South Africa. It…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Secondary School Teachers, Management Systems, Mathematics Teachers
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Tamim, Rana M. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2018
Blended learning (BL) is still in its infancy in the United Arab Emirates, but is gaining growing attention and acceptance. The particular university under investigation offers its nationally accredited graduate programs with a BL format that makes use of synchronous virtual classrooms, asynchronous self-study, and face-to-face sessions. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Graduate Students, Student Empowerment
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Yamagata-Lynch, Lisa C. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
In this article I will share a qualitative self-study about a 15-week blended 100% online graduate level course facilitated through synchronous meetings on Blackboard Collaborate and asynchronous discussions on Blackboard. I taught the course at the University of Tennessee (UT) during the spring 2012 semester and the course topic was online…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Synchronous Communication
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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
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Zhu, Chang; Valcke, Martin; Schellens, Tammy – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine whether there is a cultural gap in student perceptions of online collaborative learning and to investigate to what extent student perceptions, motivation, and learning strategies change over time due to the actual involvement in a collaborative e-learning environment (ELE).…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Learning Strategies, Student Motivation, Cooperative Learning
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection