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Patterns of Students' Collaborations by Variations in Their Learning Orientations in Blended Course Designs: How Is It Associated with Academic Achievement?
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Han, Feifei; Ellis, Robert A.; Guan, Enjing – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: While a number of learner factors have been identified to impact students' collaborative learning, there has been little systematic research into how patterns of students' collaborative learning may differ by their learning orientations. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate: (1) variations in students' learning orientations by…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Cognitive Style, Blended Learning, Academic Achievement
Challenges in Assessing the Nature of Effective Collaboration in Blended University Courses
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Ellis, Robert; Bliuc, Ana-Maria; Han, Feifei – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
The ability to collaborate effectively face-to-face and online represents a critical skill for university graduates. However, there are still challenges regarding how to accurately assess this skill through traditional student learning measures. To better understand the nature of effective collaboration of university students in blended courses,…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Cooperative Learning, Blended Learning, College Students
Assessing University Student Collaboration in New Ways
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Ellis, Robert; Han, Feifei – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
This study argues for the importance of using the different evidence to assess and evaluate a key graduate skill -- collaboration. To do so, it investigates the experience of 356 first-year students in a blended course design and measures their collaborative patterns. Combining research methodologies from student approaches to learning and social…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Cooperative Learning, Evaluation Methods, College Freshmen
Configurations of Collaborations Based on Learning Orientations amongst Medical Students
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Han, Feifei; Ellis, Robert A. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021
While collaboration is an important and key attribute for medical students in order to prepare them to perform well in health care teams, how to effectively develop and assess such skills is challenging. The current widespread practice of using Likert-scale questionnaire only to measure the quantity of collaboration at course and/or program level…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Medical Education, Cooperative Learning, Teamwork
Patterns of Student Collaborative Learning in Blended Course Designs Based on Their Learning Orientations: A Student Approaches to Learning Perspective
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Han, Feifei; Ellis, Robert A. – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2021
This study combines research methods from student approaches to learning research and social network analysis (SNA) to examine patterns of students' collaborative learning based on their learning orientations amongst 193 postgraduates enrolled in a blended course. The study identified two distinct learning orientations, namely 'understanding' and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Graduate Students
When Does Collaboration Lead to Deeper Learning? Renewed Definitions of Collaboration for Engineering Students
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Ellis, Robert A.; Han, Feifei; Pardo, Abelardo – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2019
Collaboration is an increasingly important and difficult skill for graduate engineers to develop. While universities provide some measures of collaboration ability of students on graduation, there is still some dissatisfaction with the level of preparedness of students for collaborative activity in the workplace. This paper presents a case study…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Freshmen, Blended Learning, Cooperation
Personalised Learning Networks in the University Blended Learning Context
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Han, Feifei; Ellis, Robert – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2020
In researching student learning experience in Higher Education, a dearth of studies has investigated cognitive, social, and material dimensions simultaneously with the same population. From an ecological perspective of learning, this study examined the interrelatedness amongst key elements in these dimensions of 365 undergraduates' personalised…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Electronic Learning, Synchronous Communication, Social Networks