A wiki task for first-year university students: The effect of scripting students’ collaboration
Publication date: Available online 27 December 2014 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): Bram De Wever , Raija Hämäläinen , Michiel Voet , Mario Gielen Developing authentic learning environments in higher education calls for pedagogical approaches to foster online collaborative learning. The main aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a collaboration script for a wiki task. A collaboration script is a set of instructions to improve collaboration between learning partners. Participants were first-year university students in Educational Sciences (N=186) collaborating in groups of five du...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - December 28, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Group Interactive Network and Behavioral Patterns in Online English-to-Chinese Cooperative Translation Activity
This study investigated the group interactive network of students and the behavioral patterns of knowledge construction in online cooperative translation activities without teacher intervention. Participants in this study consisted of 48 EFL learners from a Chinese university who major in educational technology. The following are determined by combining the methods of social network analysis and lag sequence analysis: (1) The group interactive network generated in this activity was reciprocal and balanced, and high cohesiveness and tight interaction relationship exist among groups. (2) In different cooperation phases, the ...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - December 28, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
An Investigation into the Community of Inquiry of Blended Classrooms by a Faculty Learning Community
Publication date: Available online 27 December 2014 Source:The Internet and Higher Education Author(s): David A. Wicks , Baine B. Craft , Geri N. Mason , Kristine Gritter , Kevin Bolding A faculty learning community (FLC) comprised of six professors representing different disciplines came together to study, develop, and teach blended learning courses. As an FLC, the researchers sought to evaluate student perceptions of the blended learning courses, measured using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) survey, and how these differed across the courses taught. In addition to this objective, a secondary objective of how the ...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - December 28, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Does teaching presence transfer between MBA teaching environments? A comparative investigation of instructional design practices associated with teaching presence
This study examined the ability of the instructor to achieve consistent levels of teaching presence in both the classroom and online, and investigated the extent to which instructors engaged in transfer activities related to teaching practices associated with this phenomenon. Three findings are of interest. First, instructors who emphasized the tailoring of teaching practices from the classroom achieved greater levels of teaching presence online than in the classroom. Second, instructors spent more effort tailoring teaching practices for use online than in integrating practices used online back in the classroom. Finally, p...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - December 10, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Toward the development of a metacognition construct for communities of inquiry
This study presents the results of research to develop and validate a metacognitive construct for use in collaborative learning environments. The metacognitive construct was developed using the Community of Inquiry framework as a theoretical guide and tested applying qualitative research techniques in previous research and has been tested in this research by way of developing a metacognition questionnaire. The results indicate that in order to better understand the structure and dynamics of metacognition in emerging collaborative learning environments, we must go beyond individual approaches to learning and consider metaco...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - November 20, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Externally-facilitated regulation scaffolding and role assignment to develop cognitive presence in asynchronous online discussions
Publication date: January 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 24 Author(s): Dragan Gašević , Olusola Adesope , Srećko Joksimović , Vitomir Kovanović This paper describes a study that looked at the effects of different teaching presence approaches in communities of inquiry, and ways in which student–student online discussions with high levels of cognitive presence can be designed. Specifically, this paper proposes that high-levels of cognitive presence can be facilitated in online courses, based on the community of inquiry model, by building upon existing research in i) self-regulated learni...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - November 20, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Prior online course experience and G.P.A. as predictors of subsequent online STEM course outcomes
This study found that G.P.A. and prior online experience both predicted online STEM course outcomes. While students with higher G.P.A.s were also more likely to have successfully completed prior online courses, prior online course experience added significant information about likely future STEM online outcomes, even when controlling for G.P.A. Students who had successfully completed all prior online courses had significantly higher rates of successful online STEM course completion at all G.P.A. levels than students who had failed to complete even one prior online course successfully. Students who had dropped or earned a D...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - November 20, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Student preparedness for university e-learning environments
Publication date: April 2015 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 25 Author(s): Mitchell Parkes , Sarah Stein , Christine Reading The current generation of learners have been referred to as ‘digital natives’ in reflection of their apparent ease and familiarity with digital technology. However, questions remain about how prepared students are for university e-learning environments. This research explores student and staff perceptions of the level of preparedness for students for a university e-learning environment mediated by a Learning Management System. Findings suggest that while students may be re...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - November 20, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Blended learning policy and implementation: Introduction to the special issue
Publication date: July 2013 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 18 Author(s): Ron Owston There is a need for research investigating why blended learning, despite its many inherent advantages, has not been scaled up successfully in very many institutions. This special issue on blended learning policy and implementation brings together writings of eight prominent international researchers who address this issue from different perspectives. The need for alignment of goals at all levels of the academy from senior administration through to students as well as the necessity for an advocate at the early stages o...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
S.R.TerrellStatistics translated: A step-by-step guide to analyzing and interpreting data2013The Guilford PressNY, NY
Publication date: October 2013 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 19 Author(s): Peter G. Holub (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Facilitation of computer-supported collaborative learning in mixed- versus same-culture dyads: Does a collaboration script help?
Publication date: October 2013 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 19 Author(s): Vitaliy Popov , Harm J.A. Biemans , Dine Brinkman , Andrei N. Kuznetsov , Martin Mulder To foster collaboration and improve the quality of students' discussions in mixed- and same- culture learner groups engaged in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), a collaboration script was introduced. A 2×2-factorial design was used to examine the effects of using this collaboration script on students' online collaborative behavior and the quality of their discussions. A total of 130 university students worked in dyads ...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Comparing student and faculty perceptions of online and traditional courses
In this study, two separate, but equivalent, surveys were developed to compare the perceptions of faculty and students. Comparisons were made between the perceptions of faculty who have taught the same course using online and traditional formats to the perceptions of students who have taken online and traditional courses using a series of 7-point Likert scales. Both surveys measured: 1) perceptions of online versus traditional courses, 2) perceptions of students who take online courses and students' motivations for taking online courses, 3) perceptions of faculty members who teach online courses; and 4) demographic charact...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Mobile computing devices in higher education: Student perspectives on learning with cellphones, smartphones & social media
Publication date: October 2013 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 19 Author(s): Joanne Gikas , Michael M. Grant The purpose of this research was to explore teaching and learning when mobile computing devices, such as cellphones and smartphones, were implemented in higher education. This paper presents a portion of the findings on students' perceptions of learning with mobile computing devices and the roles social media played. This qualitative research study focused on students from three universities across the US. The students' teachers had been integrating mobile computing devices, such as cellphones...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Unpacking online learning experiences: Online learning self-efficacy and learning satisfaction
Publication date: October 2013 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 19 Author(s): Demei Shen , Moon-Heum Cho , Chia-Lin Tsai , Rose Marra Self-efficacy is believed to be a key component in successful online learning; however, most existing studies of online self-efficacy focus on the computer. Although computer self-efficacy is important in online learning, researchers have generally agreed that online learning entails self-efficacy of multifaceted dimensions; therefore, one of the purposes of the current study was to identify dimensions of online learning self-efficacy. Through exploratory factor analy...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Individual and group-level factors for students' emotion management in online collaborative groupwork
Publication date: October 2013 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 19 Author(s): Jianzhong Xu , Jianxia Du , Xitao Fan The current study examines empirical models of students' emotion management in online collaborative groupwork. Student- and group-level predictors of emotion management in groupwork were analyzed in a survey of 298 graduate students from 86 online study groups in the Southeast of U.S. Results from the multilevel analyses revealed that most of the variance in emotion management occurred at the student level, with help seeking and learning-oriented reasons being the two significant predic...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
