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Xie, Ying; Lin, Shu-Yuan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
This study reports the effects of using word clouds to support students' knowledge integration from online inquiry as demonstrated by blog posts, tags and concept maps. Fifty-four undergraduate students from a medium-sized university in the northwestern United States were randomly assigned into two groups and blogged for five weeks. To support…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Web Sites, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Inquiry
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Lin, Shu-Yuan; Xie, Ying – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Group discussions are critical for students constructing new understanding and knowledge in both classroom and distance education. Tagclouds can provide an intuitive overview about the group's collective knowledge and could potentially be used as an anchor for group discussions. The effect of using tagclouds as anchors for group discussions was…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Preservice Teachers, Cooperative Learning, Educational Technology