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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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A Context Awareness System for Online Learning: Design Based Research
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Laffey, James; Amelung, Chris; Goggins, Sean – International Journal on E-Learning, 2009
A design based research strategy examining the impressions and behavior of members of courses taught entirely online is used for refining a context-aware activity notification system (CANS). The findings show that CANS must address substantial variety in courses and members while also fitting with multitasking between online and real world…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Interpersonal Relationship, Higher Education, Computer Mediated Communication
Using Social Context and E-Learner Identity as a Framework for an E-Learning Notification System
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Amelung, Chris – International Journal on E-Learning, 2007
Educational practitioners and theorists have long recognized that education is a social activity where people make sense of information through interactions that support internalization and externalization. Unfortunately, applying a social theory of learning to the field of e-learning is challenging. Online course management systems (CMS) are…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Management Systems, Learning Theories, Social Theories