Zhao, Shu Kinshuk, Yao, Ying Ya, Nan
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Educational Technology Research and Development
Mobile social media are increasingly being used in education. They provide an effective way to address the imbalance between teaching supply and demand for older adults. However, few studies have investigated which factors contribute to older adults’ intention to use mobile social media for learning. This study uses a sequential explanatory mixed m...
Carnevale, Stefania Di Napoli, Immacolata Esposito, Francesca Arcidiacono, Caterina
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Educational Technology Research and Development
Drawingvoice 2.0 is an instructional method of collaborative pencil and paper drawing to use in the school classroom, followed by Facebook interaction on the drawing produced in class. It is based on a participatory and meta reflective approach, explicitly aimed at deconstructing, negotiating, and reconstructing the meaning that students attribute ...
Tang, Hengtao Lin, Yu-Ju Qian, Yingxiao
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Educational Technology Research and Development
Teachers in K-12 settings increasingly demand instructional materials beyond textbooks to follow the upward momentum of personalized instruction. Especially during the outbreak of COVID-19, K-12 teachers are forced to quickly adapt to online teaching and thus have more difficulties of delivering personalized instruction in a relatively resource-res...
Rivera-Vargas, Pablo Anderson, Terry Cano, Cristina Alonso
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Educational Technology Research and Development
Not surprisingly, the number of online universities continues to expand—especially in Covid-19 times. These institutions all offer “online education” with diverse institutional, technological, and pedagogical processes. However, a fundamental element has to do with the experience of the students, and how they adapt to the educational model of the o...
Foulger, Teresa S. Buss, Ray R. Su, Man
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Educational Technology Research and Development
Prior to this study, a testable model for the influence of contextual knowledge (XK) on teacher candidates’ intention to integrate technology into classroom instruction had not been established. We applied the Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior (DTPB) to aid us in this effort. Our work (a) provided a theoretical conceptualization for factors of ...
Tang, Kai-Yu Hsiao, Chun-Hua Tu, Yun-Fang Hwang, Gwo-Jen Wang, Youmei
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The main purpose of this study was to examine the critical factors influencing university teachers’ use of a mobile technology-enhanced teaching (MTT) platform during the new coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. An integrated model with multiple factors drawing from the theoretical models and learning theories was proposed in this study to examine univ...
An, Yunjo Kaplan-Rakowski, Regina Yang, Junhe Conan, Jenna Kinard, Widad Daughrity, LeaAnne
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Educational Technology Research and Development
This mixed-methods study explored K-12 teachers’ feelings, experiences, and perspectives regarding online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study also examined teachers’ perspectives of the “new normal” after COVID-19 and of what should be done to better prepare teachers for future emergencies. Both quantitative and qualitative data were c...
Greenhalgh, Spencer P. Nnagboro, Cynthia Kaufmann, Renee Gretter, Sarah
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Despite the continued use of social media in educational contexts, there remains skepticism about whether platforms like Twitter can actually contribute to learning. In this paper, we argue that such skepticism is based on an overly narrow conception of learning that focuses on academic performance and disregards other manifestations. To advance th...
Darling-Aduana, Jennifer
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Educational Technology Research and Development
Researchers tout digital learning as a tool that can increase the authenticity of student learning and assessment tasks but lack a psychometrically valid instrument to test this hypothesis. Further, there are several complementary definitions of authentic work, versus a single agreed upon definition, presented in academic literature. I synthesized ...
Valle, Natercia Antonenko, Pavlo Valle, Denis Sommer, Max Huggins-Manley, Anne Corinne Dawson, Kara Kim, Dongho Baiser, Benjamin
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Educational Technology Research and Development
Based on the achievement goal theory, this experimental study explored the influence of predictive and descriptive learning analytics dashboards on graduate students’ motivation and statistics anxiety in an online graduate-level statistics course. Participants were randomly assigned into one of three groups: (a) predictive dashboard, (b) descriptiv...
