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Kelly Metz-Matthews; Michele McConnell – CATESOL Journal, 2023
This paper explores the ways ESOL writing instructors implement and assess participatory writing practices in the classroom using digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participatory writing practices are largely sociocultural in nature and thereby resist the notion of standardized and individualized practices to focus on co-creating a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), COVID-19
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Kalir, Jeremiah H.; Cantrill, Christina; Dean, Jeremy; Dillon, Joe – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic exacerbated long-standing educational inequities associated with technology access, learner agency, and participation in online learning. How were preservice and inservice educators supported in their pursuit of interest-driven professional learning that critically examined the unfolding impact of these inequities? This…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Disease Control, Epidemiology, Public Health
Kolås, Line; Nordseth, Hugo; Yri, Jørgen Sørlie – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
To ensure student activity in webinars we have defined 10 learning tasks focusing on production and communication e.g. collaborative writing, discussion and polling, and investigated how the technology supports the learning activities. The three project partners in the VisPed-project use different video-conferencing systems, and we analyzed how it…
Descriptors: Internet, Seminars, Web Based Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Jacobs, George; Seow, Peter – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2015
Research suggests that cooperative interactions are associated with enhanced cognitive and affective outcomes. This paper describes eight principles that can be used to promote such interactions among students working in online environments. The principles derive from a well-established approach to education, known variously as cooperative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Accountability, Heterogeneous Grouping, Computer Mediated Communication
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Rodriguez, C. Osvaldo – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
Based on the explicit principles of connectivism (autonomy, diversity, openness and interactivity) and on the activities of aggregation, remixing, repurposing and feeding forward resources and learning, connectivist Massive Open Online Courses (c-MOOCs) have made a large impact in online education since 2008. Ideally a great part of c-MOOC…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Web Sites, Electronic Learning
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Trentin, G. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2009
One critical issue arising in the educational use of collaborative learning concerns the teacher's difficulty in evaluating the contribution and participation of each student in group-work. This article aims to illustrate and discuss a methodology that enables evaluation of the collaborative learning process based on co-writing in a wiki…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning
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Garcia-Sanchez, Soraya; Rojas-Lizana, Sol – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2012
This article aims to demonstrate how the use of an online journal, a bilingual blog, can contribute to filling in the language and cultural gaps of foreign language learners. This case study focuses on the participation, interaction, motivation, language acquisition, feedback and cultural input improved by students of Spanish as a Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, Web Sites
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Duffy, Peter – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2008
YouTube, Podcasting, Blogs, Wikis and RSS are buzz words currently associated with the term Web 2.0 and represent a shifting pedagogical paradigm for the use of a new set of tools within education. The implication here is a possible shift from the basic archetypical vehicles used for (e)learning today (lecture notes, printed material, PowerPoint,…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Web 2.0 Technologies