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Li Xiangming; Xuening Li; Jingshun Zhang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
In this paper, we report a 12-week longitudinal study aiming at exploring the students' reading outcome and cognitive load with individual-based print, mobile app of Rain Classroom and collaboration-based social media of WeChat. Administered to 186 postgraduate students in a research university were the weekly reading materials and comprehension…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Reading, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
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Dong, Yan; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Yu, Yue-Yue; Wu, Jui-Chi; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between Chinese higher education students' epistemic beliefs and their judgmental standards of searching for literature online. Data were collected from 449 higher education students (152 college students and 297 graduate students) in Beijing via two self-reported questionnaires: one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Cross, Simon; Whitelock, Denise – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
The new pedagogical opportunities that massive open online course (MOOC) learning environments offer for the teaching of fee-paying students on university-accredited courses are of growing interest to educators. This paper presents a case study from a postgraduate-taught course at the Open University, UK, where a MOOC performed the dual role of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Fees, Student Attitudes
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Chen, Chih-Ming; Lin, Yu-Ju – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Despite the popularity of mobile reading devices, many studies have indicated that small screens restrict information transmission, adversely affecting reading performance on mobile devices. Moreover, mobile reading typically occurs in different reading contexts. Therefore, suitable text display type for mobile reading in different reading…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Reading Comprehension, Attention Control, Cognitive Processes
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Cho, Kwangsu; Cho, Moon-Heum; Hacker, Douglas J. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2010
This study examined the role of self-monitoring (SM) support for writing skill improvement in a reciprocal peer review of writing system called scaffolded writing and revision in the disciplines (SWoRD). Based on previous literature on the key role of SM in self-regulated learning, students were provided with opportunities to self-monitor their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Peer Evaluation, Written Language, Writing Skills
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Sleight, Deborah Alpert – Interactive Learning Environments, 2003
Describes how graduate students used paper-based support tools to help them acquire a complex cognitive skill during unsupervised practice and explains why the tools were able to support the practice. Explains how to design such tools and describes a comparable computer-based performance support system. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Instructional Materials