Assignments 2.0: The Role of Social Presence and Computer Attitudes in Student Preferences for Online versus Offline Marking
This study provided the first empirical and direct comparison of preferences for online versus offline assignment marking in higher education. University students (N=140) reported their attitudes towards assignment marking and feedback both online and offline, perceptions of social presence in each modality, and attitudes towards computers. The students also ranked their preferences for receiving feedback in terms of three binary characteristics: modality (online or offline), valence (positive or negative), and scope of feedback (general or specific). Although attitudes towards online and offline marking did not significan...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - August 16, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Balancing pedagogy, student readiness and accessibility: A case study in collaborative online course development
Publication date: January 2016 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 28 Author(s): Shahron Williams van Rooij, Kara Zirkle As institutions of higher education continue to roll out online courses and programs, issues of undergraduate student readiness on the one hand, and the challenges surrounding the design and development of pedagogically-sound online experiences that are also accessible to students with disabilities on the other, remain of concern. This paper describes the results of a case study of collaboration between the Instructional Design and Technology faculty and the Assistive Technology Init...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - August 16, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
The effect of locus of control on learners' sense of community and academic success in the context of online learning communities
Publication date: Available online 23 June 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Şahin Gökçearslan , Ayfer Alper (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - June 23, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Analytics of communities of inquiry: Effects of learning technology use on cognitive presence in asynchronous online discussions
Publication date: Available online 20 June 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Vitomir Kovanović , Dragan Gašević , Srećko Joksimović , Marek Hatala , Olusola Adesope This paper describes a study that looked at the effects of different technology-use profiles on educational experience within communities of inquiry, and how they are related to the students’ levels of cognitive presence in asynchronous online discussions. Through clustering of students (N=81) in a graduate distance education engineering course, we identified six different profiles: 1) Task-focused users, 2) content-focuse...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - June 20, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Predicting course outcomes with digital textbook usage data
Publication date: Available online 11 June 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Reynol Junco , Candrianna Clem Digital textbook analytics are a new method of collecting student-generated data in order to build predictive models of student success. Previous research using self-report or laboratory measures of reading show that engagement with the textbook was related to student learning outcomes. We hypothesized that an engagement index based on digital textbook usage data would predict student course grades. Linear regression analyses were conducted using data from 233 students to determine whethe...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - June 12, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Corrigendum to “The use of flipped classrooms in higher education: A scoping review” [The Internet and Higher Education 25 (2015) 85–95]
Publication date: Available online 21 May 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Jacqueline O'Flaherty , Craig Phillips , Sophia Karanicolas , Catherine Snelling , Tracey Winning (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - June 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
A multivariate approach to predicting student outcomes in web-enabled blended learning courses
This study aimed to develop a practical model for predicting students at risk of performing poorly in blended learning courses. Previous research suggests that analyzing usage data stored in the log files of modern Learning Management Systems (LMSs) would allow teachers to develop timely, evidence-based interventions to support at risk or struggling students. The analysis of students' tracking data from a Moodle LMS-supported blended learning course was the focus of this research in an effort to identify significant correlations between different online activities and course grade. Out of 29 LMS usage variables, 14 were fo...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - June 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Interaction analysis of a blog/journal of teaching practice
This article explores the interaction held by a group of student teachers during their initial training internship in primary schools. Journals of students' teaching practice experiences collected in a blog are analyzed by developing a set of inductive–deductive categories to describe processes favored by the interaction between student teachers in the blog, using social network analysis to visualize the interaction. Results show that blog interaction promotes collaborative, social, affective and cognitive processes, the latter two processes being the most relevant. Regarding cognitive processes, collaborative constructi...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - June 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Faculty and Facebook friending: Instructor–student online social communication from the professor's perspective
Publication date: October 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 27 Author(s): Susan H. Sarapin , Pamela L. Morris U.S. college faculty with Facebook profiles (N =308) were surveyed about their expectations of students' perceptions of their credibility, professionalism, and approachability in the classroom, as well as mutual connectedness with their instructors, resulting from out-of-classroom socializing with them and teacher self-disclosure on Facebook. Consistent with uses and gratifications theory, these teacher attributes made up the Professors' Expected Relationship Compensation scale (PERC), whi...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - June 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Factors influencing students' use of a library Web portal: Applying course-integrated information literacy instruction as an intervention
Publication date: July 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 26 Author(s): Yu-Hui Chen , InduShobha Chengalur-Smith This longitudinal study investigates factors influencing undergraduates' prior, current, and continued use of a university library Web portal using a credit-bearing course infused with information literacy (IL) components as an intervention. Applying a mixed methods approach and using the technology acceptance and information systems success models as theoretical foundations, the authors examined direct influences of user satisfaction, voluntariness, and competing resources on portal usa...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - April 29, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
The Choice of Reduced Seat Time in a Blended Course
In this study, we explore student choices of reduced seat time in a blended course that does not have a punitive attendance policy, uses online lectures rather than in-class lectures, and conducts alternative, but optional, in-class activities. After taking into account the skip rate that occurs in the traditional version of the course, we find an interval estimate of 49 to 63 percent for the mean reduction in seat time chosen by students in the blended version of the course. Also, using empirical models of attendance, we find that student use of online materials contributes in a positive way to class attendance. (Source: ...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - April 28, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Self-regulated learning strategies & academic achievement in online higher education learning environments: A systematic review
Publication date: Available online 25 April 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): J. Broadbent , W.L. Poon As enrolments in online courses continue to increase, there is a need to understand how students can best apply self-regulated learning strategies to achieve academic success within the online environment. A search of relevant databases was conducted in December 2014 for studies published from 2004 to Dec 2014 examining SRL strategies as correlates of academic achievement in online higher education settings. From 12 studies, the strategies of time management, metacognition, effort regulation, ...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - April 28, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Tapping into students' digital literacy and designing negotiated learning to promote learner autonomy
This study takes a further step by relating students' digital literacy to their school curriculum and using the pedagogy of negotiated learning to improve their learning autonomy. The proposed negotiated learning design is to scaffold students along the authenticity–generalizability continuum; from operation-oriented knowledge and experience of ICT tools to the theory and technique of tools development and operation. It is expected that, by relating the school learning to students' digital literacy, the way of students' autonomously acquiring their digital literacy outside school may help them develop autonomy in school ...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - April 23, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Tapping into students’ digital literacy and designing negotiated learning to promote learner autonomy
This study takes a further step by relating students’ digital literacy to their school curriculum and using the pedagogy of negotiated learning to improve their learning autonomy. The proposed negotiated learning design is to scaffold students along the authenticity-generalizability continuum; from operation-oriented knowledge and experience of ICT tools to the theory and technique of tools development and operation. It is expected that, by relating the school learning to students’ digital literacy, the way of students’ autonomously acquiring their digital literacy outside school may help them develop autonomy in sch...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - April 19, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Faculty and Facebook Friending: Instructor-Student Online Social Communication from the Professor’s Perspective
Publication date: Available online 17 April 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Susan H. Sarapin , Pamela L. Morris U.S. college faculty with Facebook profiles (N = 308) were surveyed about their expectations of students' perceptions of their credibility, professionalism, and approachability in the classroom, as well as mutual connectedness with their instructors, resulting from out-of-classroom socializing with them and teacher self-disclosure on Facebook. Consistent with uses and gratifications theory, these teacher attributes made up the Professors' Expected Relationship Compensation scale (PE...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - April 19, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
