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Virtual Foreign Correspondence: Experimental Instructions in Digital Foreign News Reporting
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Hahn, Oliver; Stalph, Florian; Steller, Tom – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2018
Within a series of six qualitative studies over seven years, this research in instructing journalism students investigates whether or not covering foreign news from home via Internet technology can substitute foreign correspondents on-site to reduce costs. Co-orientation and decontextualization can be described as characteristic for virtual…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Global Approach, Qualitative Research, Journalism Education
An Overview of Web-Based School Collaboration: A History of Success or Failure?
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Gouseti, Anastasia – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2013
The notion of school collaboration has become widely recognised as an effective means of fostering cultural links and supporting communication between geographically separated schools. As shall be acknowledged in this paper, school collaboration follows on from a long history of collaborative initiatives across the past 50 years. However, the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Cooperation, Computer Mediated Communication, Literature Reviews
A More Effective Way to Advertise the Distance Education Programmes: Mobile Marketing Approach
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Sabuncuoglu Aybar, Ayda; Gokaliler, Ebru – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
Nowadays organizations strive to find the ways to communicate with their target audiences by using varied advertising mediums because of the developments on the information communication technologies and the globalization. In this context, like the other institutions, the distance education institutions has to execute communication activities by…
Descriptors: Advertising, Distance Education, Audiences, Global Approach
The Influence of Computer-Mediated Communication Systems on Community
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Rockinson-Szapkiw, Amanda J. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2012
As higher education institutions enter the intense competition of the rapidly growing global marketplace of online education, the leaders within these institutions are challenged to identify factors critical for developing and for maintaining effective online courses. Computer-mediated communication (CMC) systems are considered critical to…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Online Courses, Performance Factors, Performance Technology
Online Discussion and College Student Learning: Toward a Model of Influence
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Johnson, Genevieve M.; Howell, Andrew J.; Code, Jillianne R. – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2005
As technology revolutionizes instruction, conceptual models of influence are necessary to guide implementation and evaluation of specific applications such as online peer discussion. Students in an educational psychology course analyzed five case studies that applied and integrated course content. Some students (n= 42) used "WebCT…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Case Studies, Information Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
A Plea for Infusing Communications Technology in the Middle School Environment: A Case Study
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Sullivan, Ashley – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2004
This case study explores the question of whether school personnel are using the technology available to communicate effectively with the members of their communities? A plethora of communications technology is now accessible to schools, but the question remains whether it is being used to connect with the different members of one's school…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Schools, Middle Schools, Technology Integration, Case Studies