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Ruggieri, Stefano; Boca, Stefano; Garro, Maria – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2013
A comparison of the effects of transactional and transformational leadership in synchronous and a synchronous online teamwork was conducted. In the study, groups of four participants interacted in online text chat and online text forum in problem solving tasks. The groups were lead by a confederate who acted as a transactional or a…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Virtual Classrooms
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Radford, Marie L.; Radford, Gary P.; Connaway, Lynn Silipigni; DeAngelis, Jocelyn A. – Library Quarterly, 2011
Erving Goffman's theoretical framework and concept of face-work has the potential to greatly increase the understanding of interpersonal dynamics in computer-mediated communication realms. This research used an ethnography of communication approach and the concept of face-work to analyze the transcript of an interaction between a librarian and a…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication
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Kan, Koon Hwee – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2011
Based on a series of videoconferences held between two universities, one located in China and another in the United States, this pilot curriculum study illustrates how successful interglobal communication via synchronized educational technology requires detailed planning and the use of a substantial number of pedagogical strategies. Achieving the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Videoconferencing, Computer Mediated Communication
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Adie, Lenore – Journal of Learning Design, 2010
This paper investigates the complex interactions that occur as teachers meet online to justify and negotiate their assessment judgements of student work across relatively large and geographically dispersed populations. Drawing from sociocultural theories of learning and technology, the technology is positioned as playing a role in either…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Theories, Student Evaluation, Curriculum Implementation
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Chen, Yihsuan; Chen, Nian-Shing; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Computers & Education, 2009
This article described the experiences of an inservice professional development program for teachers with a focus on online synchronous discussions. Transcripts of six online synchronous discussions containing 3600 messages from an online teacher professional development course were analyzed. In addition, the researchers interviewed 10…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Metacognition, Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education
DeGennaro, Donna – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
Researchers espouse that youth are learning differently than any other generation. Many researchers believe that because youth are leading the way with technology, their technology practices impact the way that they connect with the world around them. As a result, educators examine how to successfully engage youth in learning by understanding how…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Learner Engagement, Influence of Technology, Synchronous Communication