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Falloon, Garry – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2011
This study explored the use of the Web-based virtual environment, Adobe Connect Pro, in a postgraduate online teacher education programme at the University of Waikato. It applied the tenets of Moore's Theory of Transactional Distance (Moore, 1997) in examining the efficacy of using the virtual classroom to promote quality dialogue and explored how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses
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Beckem, John M., II; Watkins, Michael – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2012
Higher education institutions are under significant pressure to provide affordable, sustainable approaches that will prepare their students with the skills they will need after graduation to achieve success in the 21st Century workplace. Digital Media Simulations are among the new technologies that have emerged with the promise to help…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Asynchronous Communication, Learner Engagement, Educational Technology
Tirado, Ramon; Hernando, Angel; Aguaded, Jose Ignacio – Online Submission, 2012
Interactive relationships in online learning communities can influence the process and quality of knowledge building. The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the relationships between network structures and social knowledge building in an asynchronous writing environment through discussion forums in a learning management system. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Nikolaki, Evi; Koutsouba, Maria I. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
In distance education both the physical separation between learner and instructor, and the use of technology create an educational environment that is characterized by learning autonomy and the learner's active involvement. Because of these, self-regulated learning constitutes an inseparable concept of distance education. This study explores the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asynchronous Communication, Educational Environment, Open Universities
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Weerasinghe, Thushani Alwis; Ramberg, Robert; Hewagamage, Kamalanath Priyantha – Journal of Distance Education, 2012
This paper discusses findings of a study investigating how students, in four online courses, engaged in inquiry-based learning with and without support from a facilitator. The investigation was conducted by analyzing discussions of the online courses using the community of inquiry model. The results of the study imply that students in online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Online Courses, Inquiry
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Chapman, Diane D.; Storberg-Walker, Julia; Stone, Sophia J. – E-Learning, 2008
Providing tools for dialogue exchange does not ensure that students will respond to team mate postings or that online groups will grow in cohesiveness. Students decide whether or not to reply, and it is increasingly important to understand how students make these decisions due to the increase in distance education, millenials, and asynchronous…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Graduate Students, Discussion Groups, Electronic Learning
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Law, Effie Lai-Chong; Nguyen-Ngoc, Anh Vu – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: The rising popularity of social software poses challenges to the design and evaluation of pedagogically sound cross-cultural online collaborative learning environments (OCLEs). In the literature of computer-mediated communications, there exist only a limited number of related empirical studies, indicating that it is still an emergent…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Network Analysis, Computer Software
Hawkridge, David; Wheeler, Matthew – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2010
Research into tutoring at a distance has a fairly long history and the functions of tutors in distance education institutions are well understood. Over the past 20 years research into online tutoring has advanced significantly as such institutions have "gone electronic": in this paper we cite published research from the UK Open…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Open Universities, Distance Education
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Davidson-Shivers, Gayle V.; Ellis, Holly Howard; Amarasing, Poonwilas Kay – International Journal on E-Learning, 2010
This case study focused on whether women, enrolled in a graduate course, would engage in online debate, and if so, whether their postings would contain traditional elements of argumentation (i.e., argue, elaborate, critique). Content analyses for two debates were performed. For the most part, the overarching messages in both debates were…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Females, Graduate Students, Coding
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Bai, Hua – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2009
This paper reported using the practical inquiry model as discourse guide to facilitate students' critical thinking in online discussion. It was found that almost all the postings of the students who had no knowledge of the inquiry model fell into exploration phase except three postings in triggering events phase and two in integration phase. In…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Teacher Education Programs, Graduate Students, Critical Thinking
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Pastore, Ray; Carr-Chellman, Alison – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2009
This study sought to discover what motivates undergraduate residential students to enroll in online courses. By exploring this question, we hope to gain a deeper understanding of why students would sign up for courses online which are offered right down the street from their residence. The present study revealed that students tend to enroll in…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Administrators, Motivation, Undergraduate Students
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Coffin, C.; North, S.; Martin, D. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2009
The ability to argue is an important academic goal in secondary education. This paper reports on an exploratory study which investigated how asynchronous text-based conferencing provides a new site for school students to rehearse and develop their skills in argumentation. The study used linguistic tools of analysis to investigate two key…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Learning Processes, Student Behavior, Persuasive Discourse
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Chiocchio, F.; Lafreniere, A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2009
Teamwork and technology, even as people are seeing their increased use in organizations, are becoming important components of problem-based learning in academic settings. Yet, fostering computer-assisted teamwork is complex and time consuming. Knowing how and when to intervene would prove useful. This study draws from the field of project…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Persuasive Discourse
Waters, Eric L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Asynchronous online credit recovery programs have been implemented in public schools across the United States for a variety of reasons. In this case, African American female students who are deficient in course credits towards high school graduation have taken advantage of this relatively new e-programming mechanism as a means to capture course…
Descriptors: Student Records, African American Students, Females, Academic Achievement
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Howard, Craig D.; Barrett, Andrew F.; Frick, Theodore W. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
In this quasi-experimental case study, we compared five sections of a basic undergraduate technology course. Within an asynchronous web forum, pre-service teachers wrote short critiques of websites designed by their classmates. This peer feedback was provided anonymously by students in two classes (n = 35) whereas providers and recipients of peer…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Preservice Teacher Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Education Courses
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