Publisher's Note
Publication date: October 2019Source: The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 43Author(s): (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - August 23, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Internet-based alternatives for equitable preparation, access, and success in gateway courses
This study compared 2561 students who qualified for Principles of Chemistry and Biochemistry by passing Developmental Chemistry with 607 students who qualified by completing a commercial Internet-based ITS. Propensity-score techniques were used to control for biased selection and assignment. We found that spending approximately 30 h on $30 ITS was equally as effective as spending hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars of tuition three or five credit remedial course in in terms of final grades in Principles for the entire population as well as for under-represented minorities. This finding has implications for advisin...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - July 27, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Students' engagement in asynchronous online discussion: The relationship between cognitive presence, learner prominence, and academic performance
Publication date: Available online 19 July 2019Source: The Internet and Higher EducationAuthor(s): Irena Galikyan, Wilfried AdmiraalAbstractThe growth of online learning environments entails understanding of how to promote collaborative knowledge construction processes and create learning environments that support meaningful student engagement and interactions. Asynchronous online discussion forums are intended to support knowledge construction and higher-order thinking and are becoming even more appealing for their predictive relationship with learning. This paper describes a study that explored the complex dynamics of kn...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - July 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Implementing online personalized social comparison nudges in a web-enabled coaching system
Publication date: Available online 15 June 2019Source: The Internet and Higher EducationAuthor(s): Michael G. Brown, James Schiltz, Holly Derry, Caitlin Holman (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - June 16, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Beyond positive and negative emotions: Looking into the role of achievement emotions in discussion forums of MOOCs
In this study, we quantify this effect. Particularly, this research goes beyond focusing on only the single dimension of positive or negative emotions as many prior studies do. Instead, informed by the control-value theory, a more integrated framework of achievement emotions is applied in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the role of emotions in MOOC students' learning experiences. Specifically, we first built and validated a machine learning model to automatically detect the achievement emotions in the forum posts. Then survival analysis was used to quantify the influence of achievement emotions on student dr...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - June 11, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: July 2019Source: The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 42Author(s): (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - May 30, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
A network-based analytic approach to uncovering the relationship between social and cognitive presences in communities of inquiry
Publication date: Available online 13 May 2019Source: The Internet and Higher EducationAuthor(s): Vitor Rolim, Rafael Ferreira, Rafael Dueire Lins, Dragan GǎsevićAbstractThis paper presents a network-based approach to uncovering the relationship between the elements of social and cognitive presences in a community of inquiry. The paper demonstrates how epistemic network analysis (ENA) can provide new qualitative and quantitative insights into the students' development of social and critical thinking skills in communities of inquiry. More specifically, ENA was used to accomplish three different research goals: i) uncoveri...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - May 14, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
The role of an online first-year seminar in higher education doctoral students' scholarly development
In this study, we explored higher education doctoral students' perceptions of their socialization, development, and preparation in an online foundational course for all incoming doctoral students in a higher education program at a public research university in the Midwest. Framed by Weidman, Twale, and Stein's (2001) graduate socialization framework and Anderson's (2008) model of online learning, the findings of this qualitative case study shed light on ways online students developed their scholarly identity while gaining knowledge of the skills and habits necessary for navigating their doctoral program. Implications for p...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - May 2, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Award-winning faculty online teaching practices: Course design, assessment and evaluation, and facilitation
Publication date: Available online 15 April 2019Source: The Internet and Higher EducationAuthor(s): Florence Martin, Albert Ritzhaupt, Swapna Kumar, Kiran BudhraniAbstractThe purpose of this study was to identify the course design, assessment and evaluation, and facilitation practices from the perspectives of award-winning online faculty. Aligned with this purpose, we developed a conceptual framework focused on online course design, assessment and evaluation, and facilitation; and review relevant literature in light of this framework. We interviewed eight award-winning online faculty members from across the United States. ...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - April 17, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
The role of social cues in supporting students to overcome challenges in online multi-stage assignments
This study explores the challenges experienced by students while completing online multi-stage assignments and the processes of self-regulated learning students engaged with to overcome such challenges. We present interview data from three qualitative case studies involving 34 students across two Australian universities. The results show all students experienced challenges while working on multi-stage assignments. Students engaged with both online and offline social cues to regulate their learning and overcome task challenges. We discuss the design implications and provide recommendations for further research. (Source: The...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - March 23, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
The effects of group metacognitive scaffolding on group metacognitive behaviors, group performance, and cognitive load in computer-supported collaborative learning
Publication date: Available online 15 March 2019Source: The Internet and Higher EducationAuthor(s): Lanqin Zheng, Xin Li, Xuan Zhang, Wei SunAbstractPrevious studies have reported the importance of metacognition on learning performance. However, little effort has been made to develop group metacognitive scaffolding (GMS) in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments. The present study sought to extend current understandings of scaffolding in CSCL, by examining the effects of GMS on group metacognitive behavior, group performance, and cognitive load in CSCL environments. In total, 111 college students par...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - March 16, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Towards a framework for an institution-wide quantitative assessment of teachers' online participation in blended learning implementation
Publication date: Available online 16 March 2019Source: The Internet and Higher EducationAuthor(s): Xibin Han, Yuping Wang, Lin JiangAbstractWith regard to the implementation of Blended Learning (BL) in higher education, not much is known about the institution-wide participation status by the teacher, and ways to quantitatively assess such participation. This research first developed a framework for quantitatively assessing teachers' online participation in BL, and then evaluated it with data produced by 7272 teachers in 15,128 BL courses in six universities across China. This evaluation adopted a mixed methods design to i...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - March 16, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: April 2019Source: The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 41Author(s): (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - March 14, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Retraction notice to "Affordances and constraints of BYOD (bring your own device) for learning and teaching in higher education: Teachers' perspectives" [The Internet and Higher Education Volume 32 (2016) 39–76]
Publication date: April 2019Source: The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 41Author(s): Yanjie Song, Siu Cheung Kong (Source: The Internet and Higher Education)
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - March 14, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Learner participation profiles in an asynchronous online collaboration context
Publication date: Available online 22 February 2019Source: The Internet and Higher EducationAuthor(s): Min Kyu Kim, Tuba KetenciAbstractThe purpose of this study was to propose and validate a measurable model of learner participation in the context of online asynchronous discussion. We supplemented the findings of a main study (Study 1) with an empirical case study (Study 2). In Study 1, we modeled three levels of learner participation: peripheral participant, inbound participant, and full participant. Subsequent validation tests confirmed that the proposed learner participation profiles were sufficiently distinct from one...
Source: The Internet and Higher Education - February 22, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
