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50 Years of ERIC
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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Aharony, Noa; Bronstein, Jenny – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
The purpose of this study is to investigate the views and opinions of e-learning experts regarding future trends in the e-learning arena. The Delphi technique was chosen as a method of study. This technique is an efficient and effective group communication process designed to systematically elicit judgments from experts in their selected area of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Futures (of Society), Trend Analysis
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Kim, Mi Song; Hung, Wei Loong David; Jamaludin, Azilawati Bte; Lim, Seo Hong – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
Learning happens not only in schools, but also in every context that affords new experiences and opportunities for metacognition. We aim to maximize the different activity-milieux in which learners are engaged in developing their life-long learning dispositions to learn within and across contexts. This paper is a follow up of an earlier published…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Metacognition, Learning Activities, Lifelong Learning
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Yeh, Shih-Ching; Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Wang, Jin-Liang; Zhan, Shi-Yi – Interactive Learning Environments, 2013
This study intends to investigate how multi-symbolic representations (text, digits, and colors) could effectively enhance the completion of co-located/distant collaborative work in a virtual reality context. Participants' perceptions and behaviors were also studied. A haptics-enhanced virtual reality task was developed to conduct…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Cooperation, Electronic Learning, Visual Aids
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Wang, Yuping; Chen, Nian-Shing – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
This article examines the degrees of collaborative language learning that were supported in cyber face-to-face interaction. The concept of "cyber face-to-face" is used here to encapsulate the kind of environment in which a combination of real-time oral/aural, visual, and text-based interaction happens simultaneously via the various features in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Interaction, Constructivism (Learning)
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Kubiatko, Milan; Halakova, Zuzana; Nagyova, Sona; Nagy, Tibor – Interactive Learning Environments, 2011
The pervasive involvement of information and communication technologies and computers in our daily lives influences changes of attitude toward computers. We focused on finding these ecological effects in the differences in computer attitudes as a function of gender and age. A questionnaire with 34 Likert-type items was used in our research. The…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Computer Attitudes, Gender Differences, Anxiety
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Akyol, Zehra; Vaughan, Norm; Garrison, D. Randy – Interactive Learning Environments, 2011
This study investigated the effect of time on the development of a community of inquiry by examining an online course offered over two different time periods. The study was guided by the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, "The Internet and Higher Education" 2000; 2(2-3): 87-105). The focus was on a graduate level…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups