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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Brewer, Susan A.; Klein, James D. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
This article reports the results of a study conducted to examine the use of small group learning strategies in an online college course. The study examined the effect of four types of positive interdependence and the affiliation motive on learning and attitude in an asynchronous, collaborative learning environment. Results indicated no significant…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Higher Education, Online Courses, Teaching Methods
Lin, Guan-Yu – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
This study articulates the construct of social presence and develops a social presence questionnaire for examining online collaborative learning with tests for reliability and validity. Questionnaire items were developed by revising the social presence questionnaire developed by Picciano in 2002 as well as eviewing research in the literature of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Online Courses, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Ku, Heng-Yu; Lohr, Linda; Cheng, Yi-Chia – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
Few universities are currently offering an online course with collaborative learning component in Instructional Design. This study shared information on an on-going evaluation of online Instructional Design courses from 94 graduate students who have taken this course, hoping to find out the most effective way to deliver similar courses. This…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Instructional Design, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction
Joung, Sunyoung; Keller, John M. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
The terms "cooperative" and "collaborative" are sometimes used interchangeably in reference to group learning activities in classrooms and in online settings. However, they can be viewed as differing in terms of characteristics such as pre-structure, task structure, and content structure (Strijbos & Martens, 2001; Panitz, 1996). This study…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interaction, Cooperative Learning, Comparative Analysis