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Zhaokun Meng; Rui Li – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2024
While extensive studies on informal online learning have been well documented to afford teachers' collaborative learning and knowledge sharing, little is still known about their motivational factors regarding the continuance intention of informal online learning. To this end, an extended expectation confirmation model (ECM) was proposed including…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication
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Pacholek, Kamila; Prostean, Madalina; Burris, Sarah; Cockburn, Lynn; Nganji, Julius; Nadège, Anya Ngo; Mbibeh, Louis – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
A violent conflict, known as the Anglophone Crisis has been occuring in the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon since 2016. This conflict and associated consequences have affected the way healthcare is provided. To help meet the needs of healthcare workers and other service providers, a community of practice called 'The Forum' was…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Critical Thinking, Counselor Training, Mental Health Workers
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Miller, Erin Morris; Jolly, Jennifer L.; Latz, Jacqueline N.; Listman, Kelsi – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2022
Twitter is a valuable resource for research because of its potential to provide insight into public opinion as well as to identify the most influential sources of information. Mixed-methods exploratory analysis was used to evaluate the discourse on Twitter regarding gifted education. The results of the quantitative analysis of the matrix of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Gifted Education, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication
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Nagaletchimee Annamalai; Surajwaran Mangaleswaran; Radzuwan Ab Rashid; Marwan Harb Alqaryouti; Ala Eddin Sadeq – SAGE Open, 2024
This study employed a mixed-methods design to investigate the experiences of ESL students during their English language learning interactions through the WhatsApp platform. The primary objective was to examine the presence of social, cognitive, and teaching presences in the WhatsApp interactions using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model. A survey…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Asians
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Arantes, Janine – Qualitative Research Journal, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of the substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition (SAMR) model as a research method via a project that aimed to investigate pre-service teachers' negotiation of data-rich environments. Design/methodology/approach: The project that underpins this paper saw the author…
Descriptors: Models, Preservice Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Learning
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Pedersen, Louisa Haugaard – Global Studies of Childhood, 2020
This article is based on a school experiment of three local makerspaces that connected and turned into a global makerspace online. The three municipal schools were from Australia, United Kingdom and Denmark and participated in "the Global Makerspace project," which was a part of the European Union project "Makerspaces in the early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Shared Resources and Services, Communities of Practice
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Günbatar, Mustafa Serkan – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2021
The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of the instruction process using the flipped classroom (FC) model within the scope of Computer Networks and Communication course. Theoretically, the community of inquiry model was taken as a reference and the effectiveness of the instruction process was evaluated accordingly. Students…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Milheim, Karen L.; Fraenza, Christy; Palermo-Kielb, Kimberly – Online Learning, 2021
Understanding the experiences of students who self-initiate mobile device use for online courses or course-related activities provides institutions with valuable insights. In this study, we report how students enrolled in online courses in higher education voluntarily used mobile devices for their coursework and course-related activities, the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Learning Activities
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Wu, Junjie Gavin; Miller, Lindsay – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
This article reports the study of a novel way of raising tertiary-level students' native cultural awareness (NCA) via an informal mobile learning community. Through two cycles of action research at a teacher-education university in East China, the study drew upon the Community of Practice (CoP) theory to form a synchronous English chat group.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nazari, Mostafa; Xodabande, Ismail – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2021
Although studying teachers' online interactions has gained momentum in recent years, little is known about interactional development in online communities. The present study addressed this gap by exploring discursive change in second language teachers' interactions in an online professional development (PD) course structured around mobile phone…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Slagoski, Jeremy D. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2019
This study investigated the domain and practice of an online community of practice formed by English language teachers (ELTs) on Twitter as a professional learning network (PLN). A "Communities of Practice" framework (Wenger, 1998; Wenger-Trayner & WengerTrayner, 2015) was applied to the qualitative analysis of interviews and…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Communities of Practice
Reima Al-Jarf – Online Submission, 2024
Multimodal learning refers to teaching strategies that involve multiple sensory systems simultaneously. Teachers can create materials for students with different learning styles (auditory, visual, kinesthetic reading, and writing). Multimodal learning keeps students engaged, encourages them to apply what they learn in real-life situations,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Multimedia Instruction, Problem Solving, Student Projects
Fornara, Fabrizio; Lomicka, Lara – CALICO Journal, 2019
In this paper, we attempt to investigate the pedagogical value of visual social media platforms, specifically Instagram, for the development of the online social presence of language classes. Students in intermediate university-level French and Italian classes used Instagram for a six-week period to reply to a series of questions prompted by the…
Descriptors: Role, Social Media, French, Italian
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Britt, Virginia G.; Paulus, Trena – American Journal of Distance Education, 2016
Although Twitter and other social media sites have grown in popularity with educators, we still do not know what is happening within this online space or how it supports teachers. The purpose of this case study of #Edchat, a group of educators who meet weekly on Twitter, was to investigate informal professional development through the lens of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Networks
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Marshalsey, Lorraine; Sclater, Madeleine – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2019
This article discusses the practical and ethical challenges and benefits of using social media and video-based research methods -- also known as Photovoice -- to investigate contemporary Communication Design education. The two visual research methods discussed include the social media mobile application Snapchat® and participant-generated GoPro®…
Descriptors: Social Media, Design, Participatory Research, Action Research
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