Social Presence Questionnaire of Online Collaborative Learning: Development and Validity

Guan-Yu Lin

Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2004 (October 2005)

This study articulates the construct of social presence and develops a social presence questionnaire for examining online collaborative learning with tests for reliability and validity. Questionnaire items were developed by revising the social...

A Collaborative Problem Posing and Solving Learning System in Statistics

Guan-Yu Lin

Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 1354–1358

This article illustrates a collaborative problem posing and solving learning system (CPPSLS) developed to support collaborative problems solving with computer-supported cooperation script in statistics learning and its usability testing results. The ...

Evaluating Computer-Supported Scripted Collaboration for Problem Solving in Statistics

Guan-Yu Lin

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 2166–2170

Collaborative problem solving has been suggested as a way of improving students’ statistics learning. This study investigates effects of computer supported collaboration scripts on problem-solving ability, self-efficacy, statistics anxiety, and meta-...

Analyzing Students Cognitive Skills in Online Small Group Activities

Guan-Yu Lin; Yi-Mei Lin

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 1690–1693

Cultivating critical thinking is the most desired goal in higher education. This study investigates students' cognitive skills during collaborative learning in a graduate-level online course. Content analysis technique involving both numeric and...

Topics: Students, Information Sciences, Cognition

Using Technology to Improve Instructional Planning

Guan-Yu Lin; Feng-Kwei Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 2317–2318

Lesson planning is considered a critical but complex task to attain effective instruction. The traditional paper-based approach was found to be cumbersome and consequently detrimental in the willingness and effectiveness of teachers' lesson planning....

Topics: Planning, Teachers, Instructional Design

Effects of Different Activity Types and Time on Online Social Presence

Guan-Yu Lin; James M. Laffey

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 1996–2000

Abstract: the purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the effect of two different types of collaborative activity and time spent in group work on perceived social presence of students. Additionally the study investigated the...

Topics: Social Studies, Information Sciences, Social Sciences

Improving Teacher Readiness through Tracking Field Experiences

Wu He; Tawnya Means; Guan Yu Lin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 1597–1599

The field experiences of pre-service teachers are considered to be critical in teacher preparation. Many universities use a paper-based approach in tracking student experiences. This type of system is both cumbersome and inefficient and provides no...

Topics: Students, Classrooms, Teachers

Missouri-Specific Web-based Lesson Planning System

Guan-Yu Lin; Feng-Kwei Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 2009–2010

Lesson planning is considered a critical but complex task to attain effective instruction. The traditional paper-based approach was found to be cumbersome and consequently detrimental in the willingness and effectiveness of teachers' lesson planning....

Topics: Teachers, Instructional Design, Planning

The Design of Collaborative Problem Posing and Solving Learning System in statistics

Guan-Yu Lin; Chien-Nan Lin; Wan-Ling Liao

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 1250–1254

Collaborative problems solving has been suggested as a way of improving students’ statistics learning. However, it needs an effective computer-supported collaborative learning approach and its associated computer-mediated learning environment in...

Effects of Cooperation Scripts and Technology on Social Ability

Guan Yu Lin; James M. Laffey; Kristin A. Buss

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1847–1854

Using an experimental mixed design, the study examined the effects of using a cooperation script on social ability for technology and face-to-face forms of group learning. College students worked in face-to-face environments and computer- mediated...

Topics: Social Studies

Web-Based Learning Environment for Story-Problems in Principles of Economics Course

Dan Cernusca; Guan Yu Lin; Thitinun Boonseng; David Jonassen

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 897–900

Abstract: Web-based and web assisted instruction is becoming more and more important in higher education. Current online delivery and management platforms do not support alternative forms of knowledge representation and accordingly do not support...

Tracking the Field Experience of Pre-service Teachers: A Constructivist Approach

Chwee Beng Lee; Pei Ju Liu; Guan Yu Lin

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 2743–2747

The current tracking system for pre-service teachers’ field experiences is mainly for administrative purpose. In this paper, we propose a web-based tracking system that incorporates students’ assessment in place of the current system. ...

Topics: Teachers