Building an effective online learning community (OLC) in blog-based teaching portfolios
Publication date: January 2014 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 20 Author(s): Eunice Tang , Cherlotte Lam Blog-based teaching portfolios have been operating in a teacher education program since 2007. The blog-based teaching portfolios provide a constructivist and interactive learning environment where students, in-service teachers, and faculty staff members negotiate, discuss, reflect and evaluate individual understandings of teaching practice and experience. Studies have shown a positive impact of blog-based teaching portfolios on learning and professional developments. However, the evaluation of onl...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
[e]portfolios for learning and as evidence of achievement: Scoping the academic practice development agenda ahead
Publication date: January 2014 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 20 Author(s): Chris Trevitt , Anne Macduff , Aliya Steed If we are successfully to harness [e]portfolios for both learning and as evidence of achievement, we need to understand the tensions that exist between these uses. In the light of a brief history of the nature and purpose of assessment in academia we consider [e]portfolios as a potentially attractive present day option that assists the integration of discipline-specific learning with important so-called generic capabilities, especially ‘learning to learn’. The purpose of this p...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Digital teaching portfolio in higher education: Examining colleagues' perceptions to inform implementation strategies
Publication date: January 2014 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 20 Author(s): Ricci Wai-tsz Fong , John Chi-kin Lee , Chun-yen Chang , Zhonghua Zhang , Alexandra Chiu-yee Ngai , Cher Ping Lim This paper examined the perceptions of academic and teaching staff about digital teaching portfolio to inform how implementation strategies in higher education can be made more effective. In light of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), a 38-item scale was adapted to tap into eight dimensions of their perceptions toward digital teaching portfolio, namely, Perceived Usefulness for Personal Benefit, Perceived...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Teaching e-portfolios and the development of professional learning communities (PLCs) in higher education institutions
Publication date: January 2014 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 20 Author(s): Cher Ping Lim , John Chi-Kin Lee (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Factors influencing the institutional commitment of online students
The objectives of this investigation are to: (a) determine if a combination of demographic, family background, reasons for attending, and student experience variables reliably predicts the IC of online students, (b) assess the relative contributions of the predictors, and (c) provide information to counselors, advisors, and policy makers enabling them to augment the commitment of their students. A sample of 831 online students at a southeastern university responded to the College Persistence Questionnaire (CPQ). Results indicated the CPQ reliably predicted IC scores, accounting for 35% of the variance. An important finding...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Interaction, Internet self-efficacy, and self-regulated learning as predictors of student satisfaction in online education courses
In this study, we tested a regression model for student satisfaction involving student characteristics (three types of interaction, Internet self-efficacy, and self-regulated learning) and class-level predictors (course category and academic program). Data were collected in a sample of 221 graduate and undergraduate students responding to an online survey. The regression model was tested using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). Learner–instructor interaction and learner–content interaction were significant predictors of student satisfaction but learner–learner interaction was not. Learner–content interaction was t...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
A thematic analysis of the most highly cited scholarship in the first decade of blended learning research
This study continues the work begun by Halverson, Graham, Spring, and Drysdale (2012), which determined the most frequently cited books, edited book chapters, and articles on blended learning, as well as the journals in which these highly cited articles appeared. After finding where the conversations about blended learning were happening and which scholars were at the forefront of these conversations, we now look at what the conversations on blended learning are really about. Using thematic analysis, we uncover the methodologies, research questions, and theoretical frameworks in this scholarship, and then discuss the impli...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Impacts of role assignment and participation in asynchronous discussions in college-level online classes
In this study, 57 participants from an online course participated in online learning activities facilitated by assigned moderators. Social network analysis techniques were utilized to examine the influence of moderator role assignment on social networks of online classes. The results indicated when students were assigned to the moderator position their participation quantity, diversity, and interaction attractiveness increased significantly and their non-posting participation significantly influenced the group interaction. Students' participation quantity and diversity also significantly influenced their interaction attrac...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Correlating community college students' perceptions of community of inquiry presences with their completion of blended courses
This study uses a pre/posttest CoI survey design to explore the nature and development of students' perceptions of the CoI presences in 17 blended courses at Queensborough Community College, one of the seven community colleges in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Students' perceptions of these presences, in addition to demographic and status variables, are then correlated with a measure of their course completion. As no significant differences between course completers and non-completers on any CoI indicators or demographic/status variables are found, new directions for community colleges and the research lite...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
A collaborative, design-based approach to improving an online program
Publication date: April 2014 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 21 Author(s): Karen Swan , Scott L. Day , Leonard Ray Bogle , Daniel B. Matthews This paper explores the effects of a collaborative, design-based approach to improving teaching and learning in core courses in an online program. It describes research which tested a model for linking iterative, theory based improvements in the design and implementation of online courses to learning outcomes. The researchers, who are also faculty in a graduate-level Teacher Leadership program, used the Quality Matters and Community of Inquiry frameworks to a...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Interrelationships between and among social, teaching, and cognitive presence
Publication date: April 2014 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 21 Author(s): Kadir Kozan , Jennifer C. Richardson The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationships between and among teaching, social, and cognitive presence. To this end, Spearman's rank correlation and partial correlation analyses were employed. The results referred to (a) positive large bivariate correlational relationships between presence types, and (b) the dependence of these pairwise relationships on the third presence to a certain extent. For instance, it was found that cognitive presence may have a strong effec...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Signature pedagogy, implementation and evaluation of an online program that impacts educational practice
This article describes the signature pedagogy, design, research, and redesign of the first to third iterations of an online doctoral program for educational technology leaders. The development of the online program over four years, based on mixed methods used in each iteration is presented with a focus on online teaching and learning, community-building, and transformational learning. The deep and implicit structure of signature pedagogy in the program endured but the surface structure changed based on feedback from students and faculty. Lessons learned and implications for designing online doctoral degrees and research in...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Introduction to the special section of the Internet in Higher Education: The American Educational Research Association's Online Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group
Publication date: April 2014 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 21 Author(s): Steven R. Terrell (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Graduate student perceptions of eportfolios: Uses for reflection, development, and assessment
This study sought to explore graduate students' perceptions of the value of creating eportfolios and ways of improving the eportfolio process. Overall, the students found the construction of their eportfolios to be useful in reflecting on their competencies and in gaining confidence in using technology. The students also valued the hands-on training sessions, peer review opportunities and model portfolios, and technological skills built by creating the eportfolios, which they stated may be useful in job searches. Suggestions for improving the eportfolio process for future students include having all students only create ep...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
The relationships between higher order thinking skills, cognitive density, and social presence in online learning
Publication date: April 2014 Source:The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 21 Author(s): Sangmin-Michelle Lee Despite a considerable amount of research about online learning presences, the quality of cognitive presence, the value of social presence, and the relationship between them have yet to be comprehensively studied. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the correlation between cognitive presence density and higher order thinking skills as well as the relationship between cognitive and social presences. The study examined online discussion board messages (N =672) posted by two groups of college s...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - October 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
