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John Nesbit; Qing Liu; Joan Sharp; Diana Cukierman; Holly Hendrigan; Daniel Chang; Bahareh Shahabi; Qingyan Deng; Azar Pakdaman Savoji – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2024
The Dialectical Map (DMap) is an open-source, web-based argument visualization tool developed and used at a Canadian University to scaffold argument construction. To illustrate the ways that argument mapping can be used in undergraduate courses, this article presents five cases selected from courses in biology, psychology, computing science, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Open Source Technology, Persuasive Discourse
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Blobstein, Ariel; Gal, Kobi; Kim, Hyunsoo Gloria; Facciotti, Marc; Karger, David; Sripathi, Kamali – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
Emoji are commonly used in social media to convey attitudes and emotions. While popular, their use in educational contexts has been sparsely studied. This paper reports on the students' use of emoji in an online course forum in which students annotate and discuss course material in the margins of the online textbook. For this study, instructors…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Social Media, Online Courses
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Watson, C. Edward; Domizi, Denise P.; Clouser, Sherry A. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
As public funding for higher education decreases and the cost to students to attend college increases, universities are searching for strategies that save students money while also increasing their chances for success. Using free online textbooks is one such strategy, and the OpenStax College initiative at Rice University is one of the most widely…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Shared Resources and Services
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers