(It is at this time that I would like to make a plug for Creative Commons licenses. Thank you.) I think I’ve talked more about copyright this semester than at any other time in my entire life. This is not surprising, however, as I would guess that I am like most people in many respects, [...]
A while back I ranted about Google’s CAPTCHA human detection implementation, and how it is practically impossible sometimes to sign up for a Google Account. But the moment of truth arrived when I listened to the accessibility recording of the CAPTCHA. In case you forgot, I can summarize it with one word — psychotropic. (Usual [...]
Article Findings Dalsgaard, C., & Mathiasen, H. (2008). Self-organized learning environments and university students’ use of social software: A systems theoretical perspective. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 5(2). Retrieved January 12, 2009, from http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Feb_08/article01.htm. Finding: “The study of the two project groups suggests that a conference system offering asynchronous discussion forums and [...]
So, here is a brief synthesis of the theoretical foundations from the 10 articles I chose. Constructivist Also, Garrison was quoted a number of times in the context of “communities of inquiry.” Several of the papers didn’t really boast of anything that could be considered a theoretical foundation. Or if they did, they sure didn’t [...]
This post originally started out as a comment reply to a comment from Charles in reply to this post. (Sorry, couldn’t think of a better way to write that.) It eventually became long enough to become a post of its own, and thus worth more points for my Distance Ed class. (YEAH!) “In my view [...]
While reading several of Moore’s descriptions of his own Transactional Distance Theory (hereafter TDT), I found myself saying unusually large numbers of “yeps” and “uh-huhs”. This is troubling to me, only because I tend to think that sometimes I do not read academic literature with a sufficiently critical eye. However, based on my observations of [...]
Synthesis Data Collection 7 Studies, 3 Theory 4 out of 7 studies used surveys / questionnaires 3 out of 7 studies used online postings and transcriptions 2 out of 7 studies used test / assessment data Data Analysis Quantitative Descriptive Inferential Qualitative Discourse analysis Thematic analysis Triangulation Mixed Methods
Article Context and Unit of Analysis Dalsgaard, C., & Mathiasen, H. (2008). Self-organized learning environments and university students’ use of social software: A systems theoretical perspective. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 5(2). Retrieved January 12, 2009, from http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Feb_08/article01.htm. Context: Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark, in 2005 2 project groups, [...]
The following represents the questions posed in the 10 journal articles I have chosen:
