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Kay, Robin H.; Lauricella, Sharon – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011
Over the past 18 years, a number of large scale reviews of the literature have documented that gender differences in computer attitudes, ability, and use tend to favor males. Since the use of laptops in higher education classrooms is increasing, it is important to examine whether this use is disproportionally advantageous to males and…
Descriptors: College Students, Gender Differences, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education
Schwartz, Harriet L. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
There has been much discussion about the issue of boundaries on Facebook. Some suggest faculty members can resolve potential dilemmas in relation to students by making sensible decisions about what to post and by fine-tuning privacy settings. But the challenges and opportunities run deeper. For those who want to be appropriately accessible to…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Web Sites
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Masterman, Elizabeth; Shuyska, Jane Alexen – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
Taught Master's students have been largely overlooked in research into learners' engagement with digital technologies. This article reports work to redress this imbalance, in which an extended email correspondence was conducted with 23 Master's students. Specifically, it investigates (1) the extent to which these students start their courses both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Electronic Mail, Computer Literacy
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Myllari, Jarkko; Kynaslahti, Heikki; Vesterinen, Olli; Vahtivuori-Hanninen, Sanna; Lipponen, Lasse; Tella, Seppo – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2011
This article discusses students' pedagogical thinking in situations where the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has a (well-defined) pedagogical role and rationale. By analysing students' pedagogical thinking in this setting, it is also possible to better understand their motivations and self-regulation. Pedagogical thinking…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Interviews
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Pasfield-Neofitou, Sarah – Language Learning & Technology, 2011
This paper examines the use of CMC in both Japanese and English dominated "domains" by Australian learners of Japanese. The natural, social online communication of 12 Australian university students with 18 of their Japanese contacts was collected for a period of up to four years, resulting in a corpus of approximately 2,000 instances of…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Mail, Electronic Publishing, Internet
Kittleson, Mark J. – American Journal of Health Education, 2009
The author has been blessed with an opportunity to contribute to the profession of health education via a technology that 20 years ago did not exist. The HEDIR catapulted him into the national limelight. He created the HEDIR in 1992--the profession's first email directory and listserv. The profession has found the HEDIR to be an exceptional tool…
Descriptors: Health Education, Thinking Skills, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education
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Pluye, Pierre; Grad, Roland; Granikov, Vera; Theriault, Guylene; Fremont, Pierre; Burnand, Bernard; Mercer, Jay; Marlow, Bernard; Arroll, Bruce; Luconi, Francesca; Legare, France; Labrecque, Michel; Ladouceur, Roger; Bouthillier, France; Sridhar, Soumya Bindiganavile; Moscovici, Jonathan – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2012
Introduction: Systematic literature reviews provide best evidence, but are underused by clinicians. Thus, integrating Cochrane reviews into continuing medical education (CME) is challenging. We designed a pilot CME program where summaries of Cochrane reviews ("Courriels Cochrane") were disseminated by e-mail. Program participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Medical Education, Physicians
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Kim, ChanMin; Keller, John M. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of motivational and volitional email messages (MVEM) on preservice teachers' motivation, volition, performance, and their attitudes toward technology integration. Each of four sections in an educational technology course for preservice teachers was randomly assigned to one of two groups: one…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration, Student Motivation, Educational Technology
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Hwang, Sung-on; Piazza, Carolyn L.; Pierce, Michael J.; Bryce, Sara M. – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on one high school English-language-learner's (ELL) breadth and depth of vocabulary as he communicated with his teacher through e-mail across geographic boundaries for over 18 months. Design/methodology/approach: The authors began by separating 358 e-mails into three time periods (first beginning,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Eweni, Samuel O. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the readiness of three higher educational institutions in Nigeria in their attempt to introduce and maintain technology-driven services to students, faculty, and support staff. The prerequisites for participation in the digital, networked economy include the affordable ICT, reliable electric supply, reliable and up-to-date…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colleges, Readiness, Technology Integration
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Neukrug, Ed; Cicchetti, Richard; Forman, Julia; Kyser, Nicole; McBride, Rebecca; Wisinger, Sharon – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2010
This study examined the content of email messages to the listserv "CESNET-L" in order to identify trends, common themes, and "hot topics;" to clarify its purpose; and to offer suggestions for the future of CESNET-L and similar email lists in higher education. CESNET-L is an unmoderated listserv mostly used by counselor educators and doctoral…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interrater Reliability, Counselor Training, Counseling
McAnally-Salas, Lewis; Espinosa-Gomez, Erika Judith; Lavigne, Gilles – Online Submission, 2011
The rapid development of ICT (information technology and communication) in the last two decades has changed society substantially as a whole. For higher education institutions, the external environment pressure to incorporate ICT in their educational and administrative processes has forced them to invest in resources for infrastructure and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Information Technology, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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Caspi, Avner; Blau, Ina – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2011
The influence of media richness, media attentional load, social influence and users' prior experience with media on selection of media to transmit different messages to peers within an educational organization was tested. Media were discriminated by all potential variables. Support was found for the role of prior experience and social influence in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Experience, Rural Schools
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Lan, Yu-Feng; Sie, Yang-Siang – Computers & Education, 2010
With the rapid development of mobile technologies, mobile learning has become a new trend in education. A better understanding of how to effectively use communication technologies to improve mobile learning is important. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the media richness of various message delivery methods in the proposed m-learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods
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Macgregor, George; Spiers, Alex; Taylor, Chris – Research in Learning Technology, 2011
Formative assessment generates feedback on students' performance, thereby accelerating and improving student learning. Anecdotal evidence gathered by a number of evaluations has hypothesised that audio feedback may be capable of enhancing student learning more than other approaches. In this paper we report on the preliminary findings of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Undergraduate Students
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