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Escape the Professor's Office: An Exercise of Collaboration and Game-Play
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Kylie S. Aikey – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2024
This teaching note illustrates how escape rooms can be utilized as a tool to teach or review business law concepts, encourage student collaboration, and provide an opportunity for gameplay. Escape rooms can be adapted to any topic, made asynchronous, and scaled up to accommodate larger groups. This note also describes the value of incorporating…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Problem Solving, Educational Games, Business Administration Education
A Review of Chatbot-Assisted Learning: Pedagogical Approaches, Implementations, Factors Leading to Effectiveness, Theories, and Future Directions
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Ruofei Zhang; Di Zou; Gary Cheng – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The chatbot has been increasingly applied and investigated in education, along with many review studies from different aspects. However, few reviews have been conducted on chatbot-assisted learning from the pedagogical and implementational aspects, which may provide implications for future application and investigation of educational chatbots. To…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Synchronous Communication, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
Student-Student Online Coaching: Conceptualizing an Emerging Learning Activity
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Hrastinski, Stefan; Stenbom, Stefan – Internet and Higher Education, 2013
The aim of this paper is to describe student-student online coaching, defined as "an online service where a student gets support on a specific subject matter from a more experienced student". Student-student online coaching emphasizes learning a subject matter by giving a student the opportunity to get coached by a coach, i.e. a more experienced…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Coaching (Performance), Educational Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
Analyzing the Social Knowledge Construction Behavioral Patterns of an Online Synchronous Collaborative Discussion Instructional Activity Using an Instant Messaging Tool: A Case Study
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Hou, Huei-Tse; Wu, Sheng-Yi – Computers & Education, 2011
Online discussions have been widely utilized as an educational activity, and much research has been conducted on the process and behaviors involved in asynchronous discussions. However, research on behavioral patterns in learners' synchronous discussions, including the process of social knowledge construction and project coordination is limited.…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Behavior Patterns, Internet, Synchronous Communication
Teaching MSW Social Work Practice in a Blended Online Learning Environment
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Levin, Shelley; Whitsett, Doni; Wood, Gary – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2013
Blended learning is a newly emerging trend in higher education and is defined as the purposeful integration of synchronous and asynchronous learning to provide educational activities that maximize the benefits of each. This paper describes the development of a graduate social work foundation-year practice class in a blended online environment in…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Social Work, Masters Degrees, Graduate Study
Can You Hear Me Now? Assessing Students' Classroom Communication Preferences via a Telephone Conference Activity
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Heilmann, Sharon G. – Journal of Educators Online, 2012
Telephone conference presentation delivery was compared to face-to-face classroom delivery in an undergraduate business course setting to assess whether concern over presenting in front of the class and/or gender impacted presentation mode preference. After completing a classroom exercise, students (n = 102) were surveyed and asked to compare…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Cues, Speech Communication, Classroom Communication
Interactive Videoconferencing for Collaborative Learning at a Distance in the School of 21st Century: A Case Study in Elementary Schools in Greece
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Anastasiades, Panagiotes S.; Filippousis, George; Karvunis, Labros; Siakas, Spiros; Tomazinakis, Arsitokritos; Giza, Panagiota; Mastoraki, Hellen – Computers & Education, 2010
The aim of this paper is to present the design, implementation and evaluation of the methodology which focuses on the pedagogical utilization of Interactive Videoconferencing (IVC) in the contemporary elementary school. As part of the project "ODYSSEAS", during the school year 2007-2008, 46 students and 4 teachers from two elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Learning Activities, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods