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Sun, Susan Y. H. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
This study investigates how university students taking fully online language-learning configure their learning environments to enhance opportunities for learning and meet broader academic and social-emotional needs. The study adopts a view of learning as both physically and socially situated, acknowledging that the physical (material, digital and…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Role, Online Courses, Educational Technology
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Joshi, Rajendra; Kong, Jooyoung; Nykamp, Heidi; Fynewever, Herb – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The authors compare the experiences of faculty and students at universities in Nepal and New Zealand following earthquakes in 2015 and 2011, respectively. Questionnaire data from students at Kathmandu University are analyzed and compared with previously published data from the University of Canterbury. Prominent themes are developed within the…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Trauma, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
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Lai, Kwok-Wing – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper documents a study investigating co-construction of knowledge by doctoral students in an online learning community. In this study 12 students participated in the coursework and thesis proposal development stages of a doctoral program offered by a research-intensive university in New Zealand. Socio-cultural and social constructivist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs
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Mackey, Julie; Evans, Terry – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
The article explores the complementary connections between communities of practice and the ways in which individuals orchestrate their engagement with others to further their professional learning. It does so by reporting on part of a research project conducted in New Zealand on teachers' online professional learning in a university graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Constructivism (Learning), Social Theories