‘Setting the Climate’: The Role of Instructional Design and Multimedia to Enhance Social Presence

Chesta Khurana; Erica Boling

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1813–1818

Informed by the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, this study explored the role of instructional design and multimedia in ‘setting the climate’ in an asynchronous online course. Using qualitative case study design, we described how multimedia...

Understanding Online Pedagogy: A Review of Strategies to Enhance Teaching Presence

Chesta Khurana; Erica Boling

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 1001–1010

The increased demand of online courses has sparked an interest among researchers to find ways to make online learning more meaningful and personal. Though many instructor led online courses are being designed, much research is needed to know the...

Topics: research, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

The Transformation of Instruction through Technology: Promoting Inclusive Learning Communities in Teacher Education Courses

Erica C. Boling

Action in Teacher Education Vol. 24, No. 4 (2003) pp. 64–73

Investigated how experienced teacher educators and doctoral students used the Reading Classroom Explorer (RCE) program in literacy methodology courses and how RCE impacted instructors. While the instructors found ways to integrate RCE into their...

Beyond Threaded Discussions: A Study of Teaching Presence in an Online Educational Technology Course

Chesta Khurana; Erica Boling

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 4254–4259

This qualitative research study investigates what teaching presence looks like in an online, graduate level, educational technology course. We used the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework to view the role of the online instructor. This study...

Linking technology, learning, and stories: Implications from research on hypermedia video-cases

Erica C. Boling

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 23, No. 2 (April 2007) pp. 189–200

Teacher educators have been turning to video-based hypermedia cases as a strategy to confront the challenges of preparing teachers. Even though technology has been shown to have a transformative effect on teaching and learning, innovated uses in...

Language: English

Multidisciplinary Review of Communities in Online Professional Development Programs

Chesta Khurana; Erica Boling

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1990–1996

Several online professional development programs are exploring the educational value of utilizing online communities for supporting learning. Though many online communities are being designed, much research is needed to know the determinants of...

Learning from Teachers' Conceptions of Technology Integration: What Do Blogs, Instant Messages, and 3D Chat Rooms Have to Do with It?

Erica C. Boling

Research in the Teaching of English Vol. 43, No. 1 (August 2008) pp. 74–100

This study was designed to investigate 19 preservice and practicing teachers' conceptions of the role of new technologies in literacy education. The study documented how these conceptions, as well as my own, evolved over time and impacted the...

Preparing preservice teachers to teach diverse students: The interaction between narrative cases, hypermedia video-cases and preservice teacher learning

Erica Christine Boling

Preparing preservice teachers to teach diverse@students: The interaction between narrative@cases, hypermedia video-cases and preservice teacher@learning (2003) pp. 1–294

One of the greatest challenges that teacher educators currently face is how to help future teachers support the learning of a culturally and linguistically diverse student population. Preparing teachers for diverse classrooms becomes challenging, as ...

Using Hypermedia Video-cases to Prepare Literacy Teachers: The How, What, and Why to assessing learning and teaching outcomes

Erica Boling; Sharman Siebenthal Adams

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2937–2942

This session will introduce how a hypermedia video-based program has been used to enhance teacher education and the ways in which research has been designed around the use of the program. Reading Classroom Explorer (RCE) is a web-based hypermedia...

Topics: Research Methods, Classrooms, Multimedia, Teachers, Literacy

Cognitive Apprenticeship in Computer-Mediated Feedback: Creating a Classroom Environment to Increase Feedback and Learning

Erica C. Boling; Jeanine Beatty

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 43, No. 1 (2010) pp. 47–65

This qualitative case study of 1 teacher and 10 students in an Advanced Placement English class explores the role of computer-mediated feedback in the creation of a classroom learning environment that was supported through hybrid learning...

Supporting Teacher Educators' Use of Hypermedia Video-Based Programs

Erica Boling; Sharman Siebenthal Adams

English Education Vol. 40, No. 4 (July 2008) pp. 314–339

Teacher candidates can benefit from teacher preparation programs that couple learned classroom experiences with the use of hypermedia, yet challenges can arise when such technologies are integrated into university classrooms. Hypermedia in the...

Collaborative Literacy: Blogs and Internet Projects

Erica Boling; Jill Castek; Lisa Zawilinski; Karen Barton; Theresa Nierlich

Reading Teacher Vol. 61, No. 6 (March 2008) pp. 504–506

Popular technologies offer new and exciting ways to capitalize on the strengths of authentic writing, the power of the writing process, and the engagement of collaborative writing. Blogs are one of those technologies. Blogs are websites that allow...

Using online tools for communication and collaboration: Understanding educators' experiences in an online course

Erica C. Boling; Erica Holan; Brent Horbatt; Mary Hough; Jennifer Jean-Louis; Chesta Khurana; Hindi Krinsky; Christina Spiezio

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 23, No. 1 (October 2014) pp. 48–55

This case study explored educators' experiences in an online course to better understand how course design and pedagogical delivery can support student learning. Using the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model (Collins et al., 1987) as a theoretical lens,...

Language: English

Using Online Tools for Communication and Collaboration: Understanding Educators' Experiences in an Online Course

Erica C. Boling; Erica Holan; Brent Horbatt; Mary Hough; Jennifer Jean-Louis; Chesta Khurana; Hindi Krinsky; Christina Spiezio

Annual Meeting of the Literacy Research Association (LRA) 2011 (December 2011)

This designed-based research study explored educators' experiences in an online course to better understand how course design and pedagogical delivery can best support student learning. Using the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model (Collins et al., 1987) ...