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Examining the Impact of Motivation on Learning Communities
David Holder; Leslie Moller
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1558–1561
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to 1) determine if learning communities have an inherent motivational effect upon learners and 2) if so, does that higher motivation impact attitudinal change. As learning communities and groups become more...
Topics: Distance Education
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Web-based surveys: a comparison to paper-based surveys
Kyle Roberts; David Holder
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) p. 809
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the serious measurement issues of web-based surveys can be overcome through proper implementation and design, and whether the web-based survey will yield equivalent results to those obtained from a...
Topics: Teachers
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Cognitive Channels and Their Impact on Learning: A study of interaction.
David Holder; Donna Walton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 487–488
Online courses enable universities to meet outreach and fiscal goals due to their ability to distribute learning to a large number of students in a variety of locations. But not all distance learning systems have met with success. This paper will...
Topics: Cognition, Interaction
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Using Open Source Technologies to Increase Teacher Immediacy and Presence
Randall Dunn; Amanda Szapkiw; David Holder
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 241–242
Attrition rates in distance education teacher education programs is a concern for university administrators and educators. Thus, there is a need to identify strategies to increase retention rates. This presentation focuses on practices and the use...
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Sharepoint Collaboration: Streamlining the Dissertation process for Online Students
Amanda Rockinson-Szapkiw; Randall Dunn; David Holder
Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 46–49
: In the era of Web 2.0, document editors and collaborative workspaces have emerged. Primary functions of online collaborative workspaces include the ability to create a documents and document libraries online for others to view and collaborate and ...
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Student Teaching and Second Life: Using Second Life to Connect Distributed Interns
Randall Dunn; Amanda Szapkiw; David Holder
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) p. 1468
Virtual world technologies such as Second Life and There has generated much interest concerning its potential in the areas of learning communities, social connectedness among “classmates” and even identity development. The use of Second Life for...
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Building the New Textbook: Using eText and Community of Inquiry to foster deep learning in a high school history classroom
David Holder; James Wicks; Randy Dunn
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) p. 2136
Using a research based approach anchored in the best practices from learning technologies as well as community of practice we are building a new type of etext that will allow both teacher to student, student to student collaboration and discussion. ...
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Motivating Students to Learn: Is There a Difference between Traditional Books and e-Books?
Amanda Szapkiw; David Holder; Randall Dunn
Global Learn 2011 (Mar 28, 2011) pp. 235–239
Electronic books have been identified as a current trend in education and are being increasingly adopted by students as their textbook format of choice. However, limited studies on electronic books as a learning tool exist. Thus, this pilot study...
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The Achievement Gap in the Asynchronous Online Classroom
Amanda Rockinson-Szapkiw; Randall Dunn; David Holder
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 570–577
Higher Education administrators and educators seek to understand how to design and to facilitate online courses to ensure quality, culturally responsive online education for minority students for the purpose of closing the academic achievement gap....
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Technologies that Assist in Closing the Achievement Gap: A Comparison African American and Caucasian Students’ Learning and Community in the Online Classroom
Amanda Rockinson-Szapkiw; Randall Dunn; David Holder
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 804–809
Higher Education administrators and educators seek to understand how to design and to facilitate online courses to ensure quality, culturally responsive online education for minority students, specifically African American students, and to close the ...
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Audio-visual Student Created Wiki Textbooks
Amanda Rockinson-Szapkiw; Michael Szapkiw; David Holder; Randall Dunn
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) p. 1573
This tech-savvy generation of students, known as digital natives, desires to learn and to interact utilizing the collaborative technologies that have always been a part of their lives. In the era of Web 2.0, collaborative workspaces have emerged;...
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Of Student Teachers and Avatars: Working Towards an Effective Model for Geographically Distributed Learning Communities of Pre-Service Educators Using Virtual Worlds
Randall Dunn; Amanda Szapkiw; David Holder; Debra Hodgson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 423–427
This paper constitutes a report on an in-progress research endeavor, employing both qualitative and quantitative methods of research, on using virtual world technologies for building distance-based learning communities of pre-service teacher...
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Examining the Impact of Learning Communities on Motivation
Leslie Moller; Jason Huett; David Holder; Jon Young; Douglas Harvey; Veronica Godshalk
Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 6, No. 2 (2005) pp. 137–143
The purpose of this study was to determine if learning communities have an inherent motivational effect on learners and, if so, whether higher motivation impacts attitudinal change. As learning communities and groups become more established in...