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McCarthy, Josh – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This paper reports on a pilot study using the "Café," the collaborative application for education as an online learning environment within the Facebook framework, for first-year tertiary design students. The "Café," a new e-learning application, has been designed based on five principles of user interface design--visibility,…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Electronic Learning, Pilot Projects, College Freshmen
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Kim, Loretta; Wong, Shun Han Rebekah – International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2015
This article discusses the objectives and outcomes of a project to enhance digital humanities training at the undergraduate level in a Hong Kong university. The co-investigators re-designed a multi-source data-set as an example and then taught a multi-step curriculum about gathering, organizing, and presenting original data to an introductory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, History Instruction, Humanities Instruction
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Sormunen, Eero; Heinstrom, Jannica; Romu, Leena; Turunen, Risto – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2012
Introduction: Past research on source-based writing assignments has hesitated to scrutinize how students actually use information afforded by sources. This paper introduces a method for the analysis of text transformations from sources to texts composed. The method is aimed to serve scholars in building a more detailed understanding of how…
Descriptors: Validity, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Karsten, Kathleen; McMillan Coddington, Deborah; Lehman, Regina M.; Pierce, Cynthia; Tom, May; Gallo-Silver, Les – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2015
Each member of the healthcare team has been trained with specific knowledge and skills. Quality patient care is dependent on the collaboration of the various healthcare professionals and their ability to work as a team. In order to be effective, interprofessional collaboration should be included in the academic preparation of each of the various…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Interprofessional Relationship, Cooperation
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Petrou, Stella; Korfiatis, Konstantinos – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
This study presents the results of a pilot learning intervention for improving children's ideas about plant protection. The research was executed in two phases. The first phase aimed at exploring children's ideas about plant protection. These ideas were taken into account for the design and development of a digital learning environment. The second…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Conservation (Environment), Educational Environment, Electronic Learning
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Campbell, Evelyn Marie – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2012
Service learning is a powerful pedagogical tool linking community service to academic learning. Several steps are necessary to implement service learning effectively into the curriculum. This study uses a case example as an exploratory study to pilot-test data on how service learning impacts student outcomes. The paper will (1) provide an overview…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Educational Policy, Social Work, Graduate Study