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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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Rakes, Glenda C.; Dunn, Karee E.; Rakes, Thomas A. – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2013
Online courses are growing at a tremendous rate, and although we have discovered a great deal about teaching and learning in the online environment, there is much left to learn. One variable that needs to be explored further is procrastination in online coursework. In this mixed methods study, quantitative methods were utilized to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Time Management, Self Management, Student Behavior
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Paulus, Trena M.; Payne, Rebecca L.; Jahns, Lisa – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2009
Educational researchers are interested in whether what is learned in the classroom is transferred to new situations. This qualitative case study explores how computer-mediated communication, specifically web logs (blogs), can extend learning and facilitate transfer of learned concepts. Participants blogged for seven weeks about concepts related to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Transfer of Training
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Davidson-Shivers, Gayle V. – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2009
Concerns for faculty time spent in online instruction are replete in the literature; some authors suggest that online instruction increases faculty work. In a specific rather than global manner, this case study focused on the frequency and types of instructor-to-student interactions that occurred in a graduate online course. Using archival…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Incidence, Teacher Student Relationship
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Arnold, Nike; Ducate, Lara; Lomicka, Lara; Lord, Gillian – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2009
This paper focuses on computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) among foreign language (FL) graduate students from three universities, who worked together to create a wiki. In order to investigate the nature of CSCL among participants, this qualitative case study used the Curtis and Lawson framework (2001) to conduct a content analysis of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics, Content Analysis
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Park, Caroline L. – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2009
This paper is a report of the replication of a seminal study on cognitive presence in computer mediated conferencing (CMC) by Garrison, Anderson, and Archer (2001). A comparison of cognitive presence coding by three different researchers is also demonstrated. The study re-ignites debates about what constitutes the segment of CMC data to be coded…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Nursing Education, Replication (Evaluation), Cognitive Measurement
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Lucey, Thomas A.; O'Malley, Gary S.; Jansem, Anchalee – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2009
The authors examined online responses of a cohort of teachers, most of whom were taking their first graduate course. The teachers (students) posted their ideas within six blogs. Of 26 students, 11 (42.31%) consented to the analysis of their reflections. Basing their interpretation on stages of online community developed by Waltonen-Moore, Stuart,…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Inservice Teacher Education, Graduate Students