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Schuck, Sandy; Aubusson, Peter; Kearney, Matthew – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2010
The paper discusses the implications of the current phenomenon of adolescent engagement in digital spaces. Young people are increasingly active Web 2.0 users, and their interactions through these technologies are altering their social identities, styles of learning, and exchanges with others around the world. The paper argues for more research to…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Adolescents, Classroom Environment, Adolescent Attitudes
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Mott, Jonathan – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
Learning management systems (LMSs) have dominated the teaching and learning landscape in higher education for the past decade, with a recent Delta Initiative report indicating that more than 90 percent of colleges and universities have a standardized, institutional LMS implementation. While the LMS has become central to the business of colleges…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Web Sites, Open Education, Management Systems
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Stewart, Julia Aguilar – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This article reports on a study that explored the use of e-journals to understand through students' personal narratives what factors (gender, living situation, classroom dynamic, social network) may have influenced their learning during the study abroad semester. Pretests on language measures were compared with posttest results, and information…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Personal Narratives, Study Abroad, Journal Writing
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Harrington, Ingrid – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
New or beginning teachers are well received by the education profession, yet for a large portion of new teachers the assessment of how successful their transition into the first year of teaching tends to be overtly negative. Research reports indicate that the often traumatic and difficult nature of new teachers' experiences is not a new phenomenon…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teaching Experience, Education Work Relationship, Social Networks
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Suzuki, Sawako – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2010
This study investigated whether Japanese women's perceived marital and social support affect their parenting self-efficacy directly or indirectly through their levels of parenting stress. Participants were 98 mothers of children in the second grade living in Sapporo or Osaka, Japan. Data collected through surveys were submitted to a structural…
Descriptors: Mothers, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Child Rearing
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Kantola, Mauri; Hautala, Jouni – Tertiary Education and Management, 2008
One of the main issues of internationalisation is networking. The network way of action within higher education institutions (HEIs) represents new modes of the information work. Networks are worth evaluating more precisely in the future, and social network analysis (SNA) is a useful tool for this evaluation. This article describes the network of…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Sciences, Social Networks, Foreign Countries
Liberto, Salvadore – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2008
Enrollment managers are awash in a sea of change. With each academic year, they attempt to harness the new recruitment opportunities that arise through a varying array of technologies. Technology allows them to reach more students than ever before, given all the ways that students now choose to communicate. But, some caveats come with choosing…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Enrollment, Higher Education, Electronic Mail
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Woolman, S.; Fleisch, B. – Education and the Law, 2008
Critics of school governing bodies (SGBs)--both on the left and on the right--tend to rely upon arguments that ignore significant portions of the act that created SGBs--the South African Schools Act (SASA)--the exact nature of the changes to SGBs wrought by amendments to the act and the manner in which the courts, in interpreting the act, have…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Legislation, Foreign Countries, Social Networks
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Beames, Simon; Atencio, Matthew – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2008
Over the last 15 years, the body of literature surrounding the subject of social capital has witnessed steady growth. While sociologists have extensively discussed how social capital can be created and sustained within local communities and national contexts, there is little evidence of the social capital discourse within the outdoor education…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Social Capital, Social Networks, Role of Education
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Drexler, Wendy; Baralt, Anna; Dawson, Kara – Educational Media International, 2008
Social networking is changing the way children communicate. Most of this communication takes place outside of school, though countless Web 2.0 applications are emerging with educational potential. Students may benefit from exposure to the twenty-first century learning principles obtained through the use of emerging web applications. This article…
Descriptors: Consortia, Social Networks, Internet, Professional Development
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Wandel, Tamara L. – Planning for Higher Education, 2008
This article presents a compilation of data regarding the role of online social networks within campus communities, specifically for nonacademic purposes. Both qualitative and quantitative data methodologies are used to provide a unique perspective on a constantly evolving topic. Interviews of students and administrators allow for candid…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Social Networks, Colleges, Universities
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Stalker, Glenn John – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Role diversity is an important feature of individuals' social networks that is reflected in the amount of time spent in the company of different role relationships. Time-use data is used to derive an index of dispersion measuring the diversity of one's social contact among different role relationships. Patterns of social engagement are specialized…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Social Networks, Leisure Time, Role
Hermes, J.J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Trying to emulate the popularity of Web sites like Facebook and MySpace, hundreds of college alumni associations have begun to offer their own online social networks, seeking to stake a claim on the computer screens of current and former students, especially young alumni. Many of the sites have struggled to attract alumni and to keep them…
Descriptors: Alumni, Alumni Associations, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication
Fleming, Dana L. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2008
It is easier than ever for students to sabotage their own futures and reputations with indiscriminate postings, illicit photographs and tell-all blogs. In this article, the author discusses how parents, college administrators and public officials are grappling with how to protect student users of social networking sites from others and from…
Descriptors: Public Officials, Social Networks, Internet, College Administration
Ramsey-White, Kim Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research shows that too many students are graduating from high school ill-prepared to be successful in the postsecondary environment. This study examined the high school experiences of dual-enrollment students who participated in an Early College High School, and how the students perceived their high school experiences in preparing them for…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Students, High School Students, Student Experience
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