Virtual Classrooms for Student-Centered Learning in the UAE: A Qualitative Exploratory Study

Rana Tamim

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 1324–1330

In the educational context, computer technology’s introduction has supported existing delivery strategies and resulted in the emergence of new forms within distance education (DE). Blended learning is a popular new mode and is a hybrid between...

Effects of technology on students' achievement: A second-order meta-analysis

Rana M. Tamim

Effects of technology on students' achievement: A second-order<p> meta-analysis (2009) pp. 1–228

Numerous meta-analyses addressing the effect of technology on student achievement differ by focus, scope, content, sample, and methodological quality, making the interpretation of the overall effect challenging. To overcome this problem, this...

Online Collaboration Empowering Minds for the Future

Alain Senteni; Rana Tamim

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 983–992

Computer technologies’ impact on education is increasing on a daily basis, while the benefits of technology cannot be separated from other variables in the instructional context. Research has offered substantive support to the notion that the...

Teachers' Use of YouTube in the United Arab Emirates: An Exploratory Study

Rana M. Tamim

Computers in the Schools Vol. 30, No. 4 (2013) pp. 329–345

Teachers around the world are using YouTube movies for different purposes. This mixed-methods study was a preliminary investigation of United Arab Emirates teachers' perceptions about YouTube's advantages in the classroom, current...

The iPad: Another Gadget or a tool for Constructive Learning?

Linda Colburn; Rana Tamim

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1962–1966

The current paper will present findings from a pilot research study during which two project-based inter-disciplinary collaborative activities were implemented with 41 undergraduate education students at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. ...

Topics: pedagogical issues, Teaching/Learning Strategies

IPads for Project-Based Inter-disciplinary Collaborative Learning

Rana Tamim; Linda Colburn

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 991–999

Abstract: The use of instructional technology can have a positive educational and motivational impact in the classroom. The more recent trend receiving attention and debate is mobile learning, especially with regard to iPad use in classrooms and...

Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues, Instructional Design

Blended Learning for Learner Empowerment: Voices from the Middle East

Rana M. Tamim

Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 50, No. 1 (2018) pp. 70–83

Blended learning (BL) is still in its infancy in the United Arab Emirates, but is gaining growing attention and acceptance. The particular university under investigation offers its nationally accredited graduate programs with a BL format that makes...

Observing Change in Learner Attitudes and Group Dynamics through the Contextualization of Mathematics Instruction

Kamran Shaikh; Rana Tamim; Robert Bernard

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 6550–6557

The inherent purpose of this qualitative pilot study was to investigate the impact of a sports-fantasy, management-based educational game on low motivated, low-achieving learners (N = 6) in a predominantly black community. Of particular interest...

The Online Chat and the E-mail: Alternative Interview Formats in a Science Teaching Methods Course

Rana Tamim; Kamran Shaikh; Richard Schmid

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 6587–6594

In the educational context, anonymity plays a major role when 'power relations' may impact the participants' responses. The current paper presents a pilot study for the design and utilization of an anonymous synchronous chat (ASC) interviewing...

EDyoutube: Why not?

Rana Tamim; Kamran Shaikh; Edward Bethel

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 1302–1307

Although it has only been two years since the initiation of the youtube; many have already started referring to the "youtube era". It has had a major impact on many areas including politics, entertainment, and communal standing. The premise of this...

Making a Massive Tablet Initiative Work: Perspectives from a United Arab Emirates Case Study

Rana Tamim; Linda Colburn; Fida Atallah; Lina Saadi

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 322–327

Tablets are the latest entries in a long list of tools introduced to classrooms around the world, with the hope of shifting technology’s role from a delivery-tool to an enabler that enriches the learning experience. The current paper summarizes work ...

Topics: Administrators, Institution-Specific Cases, SIG: Emerging Technologies for Learning and Teaching

Technology and Student Achievement: What do 40 Years of Research and 25 Years of Systematic Reviews Have to Tell

Rana Tamim; Robert Bernard; Eugene Borokhovski; Richard Schmid; Philip Abrami

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3142–3152

This research involved a systematic quantitative synthesis procedure to answer the question: does technology use affect student achievement in formal face-to-face classroom settings as compared to traditional settings. An extensive literature search ...

iPads in UAE University Classrooms: Implications for Teaching and Learning

Fida Atallah; Rana Tamim; Linda Colburn; Lina El Saadi

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1576–1581

This paper describes a research study that aimed at investigating students' perceptions of the advantages of iPad use for learning; challenges facing successful use; and preferences for iPad use to support their needs and enhance their learning...

Topics: Classrooms, Mobile Learning, Research & Evaluation

Technology Integration in Postsecondary Education: A Summary of Findings of a Series of Meta-Analytical Research

Eugene Borokhovski; Robert M. Bernard; Rana Tamim; Richard F. Schmid

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 1764–1774

Although the overall research literature on the application of educational technologies to classroom instruction tends to favor their use over their non-use these results vary considerably depending on what kind of technology is used, who it is used ...

Topics: pedagogical issues, Teaching/Learning Strategies, Integration, Research Perspectives

Detecting Bias in Meta-Analyses of Distance Education Research: Big Pictures We Can Rely On

Robert M. Bernard; Eugene Borokhovski; Rana M. Tamim

Distance Education Vol. 35, No. 3 (2014) pp. 271–293

This article has two interrelated purposes. The first is to explain how various forms of bias, if introduced during any stage of a meta-analysis, can provide the consumer with a misimpression of the state of a research literature. Five of the most...

Factors Influencing Student Satisfaction in Universities in the Gulf Region: Does Gender of Students Matter?

Sanjai K. Parahoo; Heather L. Harvey; Rana M. Tamim

Journal of Marketing for Higher Education Vol. 23, No. 2 (2013) pp. 135–154

While various research studies have focused on antecedents and consequences of student satisfaction, few studies have done so in the Gulf region. The objective of the present study was therefore to design and empirically examine a model of student...

Topics: Gender

Assessing Computer Use and Perceived Course Effectiveness in Post-Secondary Education in an American/Canadian Context

Rana M. Tamim; Gretchen Lowerison; Richard F. Schmid; Robert M. Bernard; Philip C. Abrami; Christina Dehler

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 39, No. 3 (2008) pp. 221–234

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between computer technology's role and students' perceptions about course effectiveness. Students from two universities (one Canadian, n = 1465; one American, n = 831) completed a 71...

Gender-based “digital divide”: The latest update from meta-analytical research

Eugene Borokhovski; Rana M. Tamim; David Pickup; Jihan Rabah; Yulia Obukhova

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 1555–1561

A meta-analytical study of empirical research on gender-based differences in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) perception and use for educational purposes is based on data from 363 primary studies and encompasses four major outcome...

Topics: Global learning barriers, challenges, and concerns, Digital divide issues, initiatives, and cases

Are Contextual and Designed Student-Student Interaction Treatments Equally Effective in Distance Education?

Eugene Borokhovski; Rana Tamim; Robert M. Bernard; Philip C. Abrami; Anna Sokolovskaya

Distance Education Vol. 33, No. 3 (2012) pp. 311–329

This systematic review draws from and builds upon the results of a meta-analysis of the achievement effects of three types of interaction treatments in distance education: student-student, student-teacher, and student-content (Bernard et al., ...

A Multi-Year Investigation of the Relationship between Pedagogy, Computer Use and Course Effectiveness in Postsecondary Education

Rana M. Tamim; Gretchen Lowerison; Richard F. Schmid; Robert M. Bernard; Philip C. Abrami

Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 23, No. 1 (April 2011) pp. 1–14

This study investigated the change in the relationship between pedagogy, computer-use and students' perceptions about course-effectiveness over time. Students from a Canadian university completed a questionnaire in two different years (2003 = 1,834...

Interaction in Distance Education and Online Learning: Using Evidence and Theory to Improve Practice

Philip C. Abrami; Robert M. Bernard; Eva M. Bures; Eugene Borokhovski; Rana M. Tamim

Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 23, No. 2 (December 2011) pp. 82–103

In a recent meta-analysis of distance and online learning, Bernard et al. (2009) quantitatively verified the importance of three types of interaction: among students, between the instructor and students, and between students and course content. In...

Achievement and attitudes in technology-supported postsecondary education: Complexity of relationships through the lens of meta-analysis

Eugene Borokhovski; Robert M. Bernard; Rana M. Tamim; Richard F. Schmid

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 1994–2003

One-hundred and forty-three paired achievement and attitudinal effect sizes from a meta-analysis of technology use in postsecondary education were subjected to correlational analyses to explore patterns of association between learning satisfaction...

Topics: online learning environments, E-learning/E-training, Flexible learning

What Forty Years of Research Says about the Impact of Technology on Learning: A Second-Order Meta-Analysis and Validation Study

Rana M. Tamim; Robert M. Bernard; Eugene Borokhovski; Philip C. Abrami; Richard F. Schmid

Review of Educational Research Vol. 81, No. 1 (March 2011) pp. 4–28

This research study employs a second-order meta-analysis procedure to summarize 40 years of research activity addressing the question, does computer technology use affect student achievement in formal face-to-face classrooms as compared to...

A Meta-Analysis of Blended Learning and Technology Use in Higher Education: From the General to the Applied

Robert M. Bernard; Eugene Borokhovski; Richard F. Schmid; Rana M. Tamim; Philip C. Abrami

Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 26, No. 1 (April 2014) pp. 87–122

This paper serves several purposes. First and foremost, it is devoted to developing a better understanding of the effectiveness of blended learning (BL) in higher education. This is achieved through a meta-analysis of a sub-collection of comparative ...

Technology-supported student interaction in post-secondary education: A meta-analysis of designed versus contextual treatments

Eugene Borokhovski; Robert M. Bernard; Rana M. Tamim; Richard F. Schmid; Anna Sokolovskaya

Computers & Education Vol. 96, No. 1 (May 2016) pp. 15–28

The present study extends the results of a larger meta-analysis that addressed the effects of technology use on student achievement and attitudes in postsecondary education. The focus of the current meta-analysis is the use of technology to enable...

Language: English

An Exploration of Bias in Meta-Analysis: The Case of Technology Integration Research in Higher Education

Robert M. Bernard; Eugene Borokhovski; Richard F. Schmid; Rana M. Tamim

Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 26, No. 3 (December 2014) pp. 183–209

This article contains a second-order meta-analysis and an exploration of bias in the technology integration literature in higher education. Thirteen meta-analyses, dated from 2000 to 2014 were selected to be included based on the questions asked and ...

Beyond Classroom Comparisons in the “What Works in Distance Education” Question: A Meta-Analysis of DE vs. DE Comparative Studies

Robert Bernard; Phillip Abrami; Evgueni Borokhovski; Anne Wade; Rana Tamim; Mike Surkes; Edward Bethel

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 2345–2353

This is a meta-analysis of the experimental literature of distance education (DE) comparing different instructional treatments with each other. A framework was developed around three major dimensions of DE: Student Interactivity, Student Autonomy,...

An Extended Systematic Review of Canadian Policy Documents on e-Learning: What We’re Doing and Not Doing

Eugene Borokhovski; Robert Bernard; Erin Mills; Philip Abrami; C Wade; Rana Tamim; Edward Bethel; Gretchen Lowerison; David Pickup; Michael Surkes

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 37, No. 3 (Nov 18, 2011)

This systematic review builds upon the work of Authors (2006) and McGreal and Anderson (2007). It seeks to provide a synthesis and discussion of publicly available government policy documents with regard to e-learning in Canada. There is general...

A Meta-Analysis of Three Types of Interaction Treatments in Distance Education

Robert M. Bernard; Philip C. Abrami; Eugene Borokhovski; C Anne Wade; Rana M. Tamim; Michael A. Surkes; Edward Clement Bethel

Review of Educational Research Vol. 79, No. 3 (2009) pp. 1243–1289

This meta-analysis of the experimental literature of distance education (DE) compares different types of interaction treatments (ITs) with other DE instructional treatments. ITs are the instructional and/or media conditions designed into DE courses, ...

An Extended Systematic Review of Canadian Policy Documents on e-Learning: What We’re Doing and Not Doing

Eugene Borokhovski; Robert Bernard; Erin Mills; Philip Abrami; C Wade; Rana Tamim; Edward Bethel; Gretchen Lowerison; David Pickup; Michael Surkes; Michael Surkes

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 37, No. 3 (Nov 18, 2011)

This systematic review builds upon the work of Authors (2006) and McGreal and Anderson (2007). It seeks to provide a synthesis and discussion of publicly available government policy documents with regard to e-learning in Canada. There is general...

Technology's Effect on Achievement in Higher Education: A Stage I Meta-Analysis of Classroom Applications

Richard F. Schmid; Robert M. Bernard; Eugene Borokhovski; Rana Tamim; Philip C. Abrami; C Anne Wade; Michael A. Surkes; Gretchen Lowerison

Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 21, No. 2 (August 2009) pp. 95–109

This paper reports the findings of a Stage I meta-analysis exploring the achievement effects of computer-based technology use in higher education classrooms (non-distance education). An extensive literature search revealed more than 6,000...

The effects of technology use in postsecondary education: A meta-analysis of classroom applications

Richard F. Schmid; Robert M. Bernard; Eugene Borokhovski; Rana M. Tamim; Philip C. Abrami; Michael A. Surkes; C. Anne Wade; Jonathan Woods

Computers & Education Vol. 72, No. 1 (March 2014) pp. 271–291

This meta-analysis is a study of the experimental literature of technology use in postsecondary education from 1990 up to 2010 exclusive of studies of online or distance education previously reviewed by Bernard et al. (2004). It reports the overall...

Language: English