Search results for author:"Karen Swan"
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The Development of Perceptions of Social Presence in Online Course Discussions
Karen Swan; Li Fang Shih
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 836–843
This mixed methods study explores how social presence is developed in online course discussions. The study combines quantitative analyses of survey results from students enrolled in four online graduate courses, and qualitative comparisons of...
Topics: Educational Technology, Social Studies, Students
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Situated Collaborative Learning in Ubiquitous Computing Environments: A Case Study
Yimei Lin; Karen Swan; Annette Kratcoski
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 1474–1479
This paper describes a case study that examined how technology was integrated to a situated collaborative learning activity in a ubiquitous computing classroom. The students' task was to produce an animated movie to demonstrate Newton's Laws of...
Topics: Students, Educational Technology, Integration
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Technology Support for Whole Class Engagement in Learning
Karen Swan; Annette Kratcoski; Jason Schenker; Deborah Miller; Mark van 't Hooft
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3310–3319
This research explores how the use of student response systems (SRS) effects elementary and middle school students' engagement in and learning from classroom lessons. A pilot study, which compared third graders' engagement in lessons involving the...
Topics: Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Schools, Students, Middle School Education
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Scaffolding Learning through Multimedia Development
Yi-Mei Lin; Karen Swan; Annette Kratcoski
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 17, No. 3 (July 2008) pp. 363–385
This paper reports on a third grade class's use of technology during a science unit on forces and motion. The investigation documents the unique ways in which children can construct knowledge and create multimedia representations of their learning...
Topics: Computers, Instructional Design, Elementary Education, Educational Technology, Multimedia, Children, Collaboration, Creativity, Human Computer Interaction, Students