Blogs as Eportfolio Platforms in Teacher Education: Affordances and Limitations Derived from Student Teachers' Perceptions and Performance on Their Eportfolios

Gemma Tur; Santos Urbina

Digital Education Review Vol. 26 (December 2014) pp. 1–23

At the University of the Balearic Islands, in Ibiza local centre, an eportfolio project in Teacher Education has been implemented since the 2009-2010 school year. This article is based on the research of the two first school years (2009-2010 and...

Student Teachers’ Attitude towards Twitter for Educational Aims

Victoria Marn; Gemma Tur

Open Praxis Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jul 28, 2014) pp. 275–285

This paper presents an educational experience with 100 student teachers from different courses of the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) in which Twitter is used for various different activities. The aim of this experiment was to explore...

Enhancing learning with the social media: student teachers’ perceptions on Twitter in a debate activity

Gemma Tur; Victoria Marn

Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research (NAER Journal) Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan 15, 2015) pp. 46–53

This paper presents research focused on the educational experience of students using the microblogging platform Twitter for debate activities in three groups in different teacher education programmes at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. ...

Topics: Social Studies, Learning Management Systems, Social Sciences

A codesign strategy for an iterative and participatory game-design for learners’ agency in formal educational settings

Barbara de Benito; Gemma Tur; Linda Castañeda

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2024 (Jul 01, 2024) pp. 671–675

Games in educational settings allow the enactment of students’ agency while facilitating enjoyable and playful learning. Game design is a complex task that has been informed by previous research and structured based on a number of methodologies...

Topics: collaborative learning, Game-based learning

Using Twitter in Higher Education in Spain and the USA

Gemma Tur; Victoria I. Marín; Jeffrey Carpenter

Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal Vol. 25, No. 51 (2017) pp. 19–27

This article examines student teachers' use and perceptions of Twitter, based on a mixed-method comparative approach. Participants (n = 153) were education majors who used Twitter as a part of required coursework in their programs at two...

What do U.S. and Spanish pre-service teachers think about educational and professional use of Twitter? A comparative study

Jeffrey P. Carpenter; Gemma Tur; Victoria I. Marín

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 60, No. 1 (November 2016) pp. 131–143

This mixed-methods study explored pre-service teacher (PST) perceptions of educational and professional uses of the social media platform Twitter. PSTs (N = 153) from two universities in the United States and Spain used Twitter for course...

Language: English

Creation of a protocol for designing didactical processes to promote agentic students

Adolfina Pérez Garcias; Antònia Darder Mesquida; Jordi Coiduras Rodríguez; Gemma Tur Ferrer

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2024 (Jul 01, 2024) pp. 747–753

Instructional design is an inherent part of the teaching role. If, in addition, we focus on technological environments, it becomes an everyday concern. Under a learner-centered approach in digital environments, student agency can be considered a key ...

Topics: Learner-centered, and self-directed learning

From Diagrams to Self-Regulated Learning: Student Teachers' Reflections on the Construction of Their PLE

Gemma Tur; Victoria I. Marín; Juan Moreno; Antonio Gallardo; Santos Urbina

Educational Media International Vol. 53, No. 2 (2016) pp. 139–152

This paper presents a study on the reflections on their PLEs by student teachers in an ICT subject of the fourth degree course in Teacher Education (Early Childhood Teacher Training) at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). There were four...

Primary Pre-service Teachers as Learning Designers of Collaborative Activities with ICT

Adolfina Pérez Garcias; Victoria I Marín Juarros; Gemma Tur; Alexandra Lizana

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 1094–1101

This exploratory study includes two case studies that aim to obtain an idea of the practice of learning design of collaborative activities with ICT with students of teaching in the Degree of Primary Education, as well as in the concept of "Teachers...

Topics: collaborative learning, Learning Communities, Participatory/contributory communities

A model of factors affecting learning performance through the use of social media in Malaysian higher education

Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi; Norma Alias; Mohd Shahizan Othman; Victoria I. Marin; Gemma Tur

Computers & Education Vol. 121, No. 1 (June 2018) pp. 59–72

This study attempted to mitigate the gap in literature concerning the use of social media for active collaborative learning and engagement and its effect on the research students' learning performance in the context of Malaysia. A questionnaire...

Language: English