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This qualitative study sought to determine whether asynchronous online interactions in a face-to-face graduate course facilitate social construction of knowledge among students. The qualitative analysis of online discussion transcripts led to the...

This qualitative study describes the ways in which a professor structured, facilitated, and evaluated asynchronous online discussions in an on-campus undergraduate course. Reports on how professors perceive certain strategies used in online...

This qualitative study reports on student and professor perceptions of the usefulness of a course Web site in a graduate psychology course that used BlackboardTM. The professor and students in this study cited several benefits of supplementing...

This qualitative study reports on how four professors used asynchronous online discussions as advance organizers to enhance classroom discussions in teacher education courses. The four professors who participated in this study cited several benefits ...

Despite being hailed as enhancing and facilitating collaborative learning, wikis have remained largely untapped as a tool in teacher education and development. This paper describes the use of a wiki activity in a technology development seminar for...

Faculty who are charged with adapting their on-campus courses for online delivery face multiple challenges due to their lack of experience with online course design, online interactions, and online technologies. This paper describes the analysis...

This qualitative study describes the ways in which eight professors integrated and evaluated asynchronous online discussions in face-to-face undergraduate and graduate courses. The different ways in which the professors used online discussions in...

This paper examines using a shared student-generated and interactive map displaying the locations of students in an online course as a resource for community building. Facilitating stronger feelings of community is an important component for...

Abstract: Wikis are increasingly being used to enhance and facilitate collaborative learning in higher education. This paper describes the use of a wiki in an educational technology course to build community and collaboration among educators beyond...

Wikis are increasingly being used to facilitate sense of community and collaborative learning in higher education. Fourteen students’ sense of community as a result of using a wiki in a graduate education course was measured using the Classroom...

The use of blogs by one professor in undergraduate history courses over three years is described in this paper. The ways in which he used blogs and the strategies that he developed over time are presented here along with his perceptions of benefits...

Web 2.0 technologies are being increasingly used by faculty in higher education courses to engage a new generation of students. Course assessments, however, often comprise papers and exams, and course projects end with traditional presentations by...

Online students in a graduate educational technology course were provided with online library instruction and support to help them access library resources and successfully use online research databases. Students viewed online videos, used online...

Recent research has highlighted the benefits of integrating Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking in teacher education. The pre-service teacher perspective of the ways in which teacher educators currently use Web 2.0 technologies...

With the increasing number of online programs offered by institutions of higher education, it is important to find ways to provide information literacy instruction to support off-campus students and to help them succeed in such programs. With the...

Abstract: This pilot project explored elementary preservice teachers’ use of social media for personal use, educational use when required by their professors, and educational use when not required by their professors. Their use of social media for...