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Direct linkPluye, 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
Download full textFallon, Gerald; Rublik, Natalie – TESL Canada Journal, 2011
This is a critical policy study of language planning and policy in Quebec regarding the new policy direction requiring the compulsory teaching of English at the early primary level (grades 1-2, Cycle 1) in francophone public schools. Based on the analysis of policy documents, archives, and narratives from interviews, the goal of this policy study…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Electronic Mail, Seminars, Criticism
Richardson, John T. E. – Educational Psychology, 2011
At UK institutions of higher education, the academic attainment of White students tends to be higher than that of students from other ethnic groups. A postal survey of Open University students found very little difference in academic engagement in those from different ethnic groups. The differences in pass rates and course grades remained…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Distance Education, Academic Achievement, White Students
Bower, Jack; Kawaguchi, Satomi – Language Learning & Technology, 2011
This paper presents a comparative analysis of corrective feedback provided by participants in an eTandem interaction between university students in Japan and Australia who were learning each other's language. Corrective feedback provided to tandem partners during interaction via text-based Synchronous Computer Mediated Communication (SCMC) is…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Communication Problems, Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Strategies
O'Rourke, Susan L.; Martin, Marie; Brown, Lisa; Bauer, William; Dobbins, Michael; Schaeffer, Alice; Cartin, Donna; Pollard, Carol; Byrne, Daniel – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2011
Adolescents with multiple or severe disabilities often lack access to opportunities available to their typically developing peers, whose in-school friendships are often reinforced through other out-of-school, and sometimes interschool, activities. Limitations to these opportunities can be a result of attending a separate school designed to provide…
Descriptors: Friendship, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication
Evans, Stephen – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
Email has revolutionised the way in which professionals work and companies operate, and yet has received surprisingly little scholarly attention in English for Specific Purposes and has an unexpectedly muted presence in many Business English textbooks. The dearth of research into email use in globalised business settings may be one of the factors…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language)
Furlong, John; Davies, Chris – Oxford Review of Education, 2012
The paper presents findings from a large-scale mixed methods study of young people's uses of new technologies at home to address a number of key conceptual issues in understanding the home as context for learning. First it is argued that young people's engagement with new technologies is fundamentally bound up with their own identity. It then goes…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Young Adults, Youth, Educational Technology
Karal, Hasan; Kokoc, Mehmet; Silbir, Lokman – Online Submission, 2011
This study aims to determine the problems faced by students taking an online exam during a graduate degree program administered by the Distance Education Research and Application Center, KTU (Karadeniz Technical University). The research was conducted with 106 students during the spring semester of the 2009-2010 academic years in the department of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Distance Education, Educational Administration
Johnson, Genevieve Marie – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2011
Widespread adoption of the Internet during the past two decades has produced the first generation of digital natives. Ninety-five children (M[subscript age] = 10.4 years) completed a questionnaire that measured three clusters of variables: 1) Internet use at home and school, 2) peer, school, and home self-esteem, 3) and cognitive abilities…
Descriptors: Females, Internet, Gender Differences, Males
Lim, Tina; Fadzil, Mansor; Mansor, Norziati – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
This article describes Open University Malaysia's efforts at enhancing the blended learning approach for undergraduate distance learners with the successful implementation of the Mobile Learning via SMS initiative. The pilot project was implemented in the May 2009 semester, and this coming January 2011 semester will be in its sixth consecutive…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Blended Learning, Open Universities, Distance Education
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)
Hachiya, Kumiko – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative research investigates the meaning of "keitai" (mobile phones) for older Japanese adults between the ages of 59 and 79. Participants' emails from keitai, handwritten daily logs, and audio and video recordings from meetings and interviews were collected during my stay of nearly seven months in one of the largest cities in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Baby Boomers, Ethnography, Access to Information
Wiebe, Sean; Guiney Yallop, John J. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2010
In this article, we invite readers into a conversation about ways of being in teaching. Through e-mails, telephone calls, and face-to-face meetings, we use our first conversations with each other as shared moments that we returned to, seeking to better understand how we made meaning in our individual school teaching careers, and how we continue to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Hermeneutics, Reflective Teaching
Liu, Yuqin; Yin, Chengjiu; Ogata, Hiroaki; Qiao, Guojun; Yano, Yoneo – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2011
In traditional classes, having many questions from learners is important because these questions indicate difficult points for learners and for teachers. This paper proposes a FAQ-based e-Learning environment to support Japanese language learning that focuses on learner questions. This knowledge sharing system enables learners to interact and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Japanese, Second Language Instruction
Pilling, Doria; Barrett, Paul – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2008
This study is the only comprehensive survey to date of the text communication preferences of deaf people who cannot or prefer not to use voice telephony in the United Kingdom. Respondents covered a wide age range, became deaf or hard of hearing at different ages, and had different communication preferences. Generally, respondents used several…
Descriptors: Partial Hearing, Deafness, Attitudes, Verbal Communication
