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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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Omidvar, Pegah; Tan, Bee Hoon – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
The need for cross-cultural understanding of the relationship between culture and learning style is becoming increasingly important because of the changing cultural mix of classrooms and society at large. The research done regarding the two variables is mostly quantitative. This review summarizes results of the existing research on cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Awareness, Cognitive Style, Classroom Environment
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Shahsavar, Zahra; Tan, Bee Hoon – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
The rapid growth of using Web 2.0 tools such as blogs has increased online courses in education. Questionnaires are the most commonly used instruments to assess students' attitudes toward the online courses. This study provides a set of specific guidelines that the researchers used to develop a questionnaire to measure students' attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Student Attitudes
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Wan, Juida; Tan, Bee Hoon – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
The digital explosion of information on the Internet has resulted in a need for a new and up-to-date way for Digital Natives to learn English. Educators have reported numerous benefits of using weblogs in English language learning. This article presents a small scale study on the use of weblogs for English language learning at tertiary level in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Shahsavar, Zahra; Tan, Bee Hoon; Aryadoust, S. Vahid – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2010
Due to the wide application of advanced technology in education, many attitude scales have been developed to evaluate learners' attitudes toward educational tools. However, with the rapid development of emerging technologies, using blogs as one of the Web 2.0 tools is still in its infancy and few blog attitude scales have been developed yet.…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Web 2.0 Technologies