Factors influencing students’ use of a library Web portal: Applying course-integrated information literacy instruction as an intervention
Publication date: Available online 18 April 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Yu-Hui Chen , InduShobha Chengalur-Smith (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - April 19, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Capitalizing on Social Presence: The Relationship Between Social Capital and Social Presence
Publication date: Available online 12 April 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Murat Öztok , Daniel Zingaro , Alexandra Makos , Clare Brett , Jim Hewitt Online learning literature espouses the benefits of social interaction for meaningful learning and deep processing of course material. Yet, our understanding of the types of interactions that lead to these benefits may be limited by our current understanding of social presence. In this paper, we employ social capital theory to help understand the social presence experiences of students in online learning environments. We find that social pre...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - April 17, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Mobile Augmented-Reality Artifact Creation as a Component of Mobile Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
Publication date: Available online 16 April 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Fengfeng Ke , Yu-Chang Hsu Adopting a mixed-method research design, this exploratory study examined the effectiveness of smartphone-based, AR artifact creation and other mobile collaborative learning activities in reinforcing the technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) of teacher education students. The study indicated that mobile AR artifact creation with peer discussion tended to better promote the componential competencies of technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK) and the integrative development of t...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - April 17, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Transforming Disruptive Technology into Sustainable Technology: Understanding the Front-End Design of an Online Program at a Brick-and-Mortar University
This article examines design processes that a team of instructional technology faculty and administrators experienced related to an online instructional technology graduate program at a large Midwestern university. This qualitative development research pays close attention to the five-year front-end program design. As participant observers, the first three authors reviewed faculty and administrator interviews, design meeting observations, and program related documents. The analysis relied on activity systems to showcase the disruptive nature of online education at a brick-and-mortar university and how faculty and administr...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - April 3, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Understanding students' perceptions of the benefits of online social networking use for teaching and learning
Publication date: July 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 26 Author(s): Suraya Hamid , Jenny Waycott , Sherah Kurnia , Shanton Chang The recent popularity of social technologies has motivated some university lecturers to use them for Online Social Networking (OSN) educational activities. These technologies have enormous potential to enhance the teaching and learning experience. However, there have been limited studies assessing how to effectively use social technologies and what the impacts are on students' learning experience, particularly with regard to their value in enhancing interactions. Th...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - March 27, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Understanding Students’ Perceptions on the Benefits of Online Social Networking Use for Teaching and Learning
Publication date: Available online 6 March 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Suraya Hamid , Jenny Waycott , Sherah Kurnia , Shanton Chang The recent popularity of social technologies has motivated some university lecturers to use them for Online Social Networking (OSN) educational activities. Furthermore, social technologies have been adopted and used actively by students for non-educational activities. These technologies have enormous potential to enhance the teaching and learning experience. However, there have been limited studies assessing how to effectively use social technologies and wh...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - March 12, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Corrigendum to ‘Toward the development of a metacognition construct for communities of inquiry’ [The Internet and Higher Education (2015) 66–71]
Publication date: Available online 11 March 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): D.R. Garrison , Zehra Akyol (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - March 12, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
The use of flipped classrooms in higher education: A scoping review
Publication date: Available online 16 February 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Jacqueline O’Flaherty , Craig Phillips There is increasing pressure for Higher Education institutions to undergo transformation, with education being seen as needing to adapt in ways that meet the conceptual needs of our time. Reflecting this is the rise of the flipped or inverted classroom. The purpose of this scoping review was to provide a comprehensive overview of relevant research regarding the emergence of the flipped classroom and the links to pedagogy and educational outcomes, identifying any gaps in the ...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - February 24, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Work coordination and collaborative knowledge construction in a small group collaborative virtual task
Publication date: Available online 19 February 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Rosa M. Mayordomo , Javier Onrubia The purpose of the study was to explore possible relationships between work organisation and collaborative knowledge construction in a small group collaborative virtual task with written products. Four small groups (two groups with high marks at the end of the task and two groups with low marks at the end of the task) in an “Instructional Psychology” course participated in the study. The task lasted for five weeks. All the contributions and attached documents (a total of 583 c...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - February 24, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Examining the role of feedback messages in undergraduate students' writing performance during an online peer assessment activity
This study therefore aims to explore the role of feedback messages in students' writing performance. The feedback messages given by 47 undergraduate students in a three-round online peer assessment review were firstly examined by a series of content analyses regarding the affective, cognitive, and metacognitive aspects of the comments. The influences of the feedback messages on the students' performance progression during the three rounds of review were then explored. The results show that cognitive feedback (e.g.,direct correction) was more helpful for the students' writing learning gains than was affective feedback (e.g....
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - February 24, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Examining the role of feedback messages in undergraduate students’ writing performance during an online peer assessment activity
This study therefore aims to explore the role of feedback messages in students’ writing performance. The peer feedback messages given by 47 undergraduate students in a three-round online peer assessment review were firstly examined by a series of content analyses regarding the affective, cognitive, and metacognitive aspects of the comments. The influences of the feedback messages on the students’ performance progression during the three rounds of review were then explored. The results show that the students tended to provide cognitive comments to their peers. Cognitive feedback (direct correction, personal opinion, or ...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - February 13, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Physical and Social Presence in 3D Virtual Role-Play for Pre-service Teachers
This study also investigates the influences of physical and social presence on situational interest and perceived achievement in virtual role-play. The role-play activity allowed pre-service teachers (n=151) to teach their peers in realistic classroom contexts within Second Life and to reflect on their language use as teachers. This study found that pre-service teachers’ age and epistemological beliefs significantly influenced their physical and social presence in the virtual world. This finding implies that physical and social presence are influenced not only by the representational fidelity of virtual worlds but also b...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - January 29, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Conformity of Responses among Graduate Students in an Online Environment
Publication date: Available online 22 January 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Tanya Beran , Michelle Drefs , Alyshah Kaba , Noof Al Baz , Nouf Al Harbi Despite 60years of social-psychological research demonstrating that individuals are likely to conform to inaccurate information presented by group members, this phenomenon of conformity has yet to be studied in an online environment. A total of 53 graduate students visited a virtual classroom. Each one was able to see the names of three other students (confederates), while responding to 10 multiple choice questions about research. Participa...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - January 23, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
A wiki task for first-year university students: The effect of scripting students' collaboration
This study investigates the effect of a collaboration script - i.e. a set of instructions to improve collaboration between learning partners - for a wiki task. Participants were first-year university students in Educational Sciences (N =186) collaborating in groups of five during a three-week period to create a wiki on peer assessment in education. Two conditions were contrasted: a scripted and a non-scripted condition. The effect of scripting was measured in four ways (questionnaires, log-file analyses, group product scores, and individual pre–post-test scores). Results show significant positive effects of scripting wit...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - January 9, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Examining Reliability and Validity of a Korean Version of the Community of Inquiry Instrument Using Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis
This study examines the reliability and validity of a Korean version of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) instrument for online learning. The measurement consists of 34 items to evaluate social presence, teaching presence, and cognitive presence and was translated from English into Korean for this study. A Cyber University in Seoul, Korea was selected to test the reliability and validity of the CoI measurement in Korean. Data were randomly split into two groups. Three factor-structures of the CoI framework explained 63.82% of the variance in the pattern of relationships among the items using the first split-half sample. All t...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - January 3, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
