Faculty Collaboration Issues in the Internet-based Intercultural Language Learning and Teaching Projects

Yu-Chih Doris Shih

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 910–916

The purpose of this study is to identify the issues related to the faculty-coordinators and school administrators that contribute to successful and unsuccessful telecommunications projects. In an Internet-based connection, US pre-service teachers...

Topics: Distance Education, Teachers, Faculty, Schools, Administrators

Preparing English Teachers of the 21st Century: Through the Multimedia Teaching Materials Course in a Master’s Program in Taiwan

Yu-Chih Doris Shih

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 785–790

As many courses around the world are offered to learners through the distance or blended learning mode, higher education students have the opportunity to take such courses. The current project describes the design of a “Multimedia Teaching Materials”...

Topics: Implementation Experiences, Teaching/Learning Strategies, improving classroom teaching

Learning to Teach English with Multimedia: A Hybrid Course for English Teacher Preparation in the School of Continuing Education

Yu-Chih Doris Shih

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 447–452

Many universities in Taiwan offer courses in the distance learning mode or blended learning mode. Blended learning may be more suitable for students of School of Continuing Education (SOCE) because this group of students is mostly in the workforce...

Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, English Education

Online ESL Learning: An Authentic Contact

Yu-Chih Doris Shih; Lauren Cifuentes

International Conference on Computers in Education/International Conference on Computer-Assisted Instruction 2000 (November 2000)

As international communication becomes faster, cheaper, and ever more ubiquitous, learning through online technologies is more available. In a telecommunications project between U.S. pre-service teachers and Taiwanese English-as-a-Second-Language ...

Cultivating Linguistic Ownership through Reflective Blog-writing: A College-level Dyadic Collaboration through Web 2.0

Wen-Chun Chen; Yu-Chih Doris Shih

Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 291–297

The present research investigates blogs’ pedagogical effects on English writing. Literature recommends this technological tool but few empirical studies report how blogs empower language learners by raising their linguistic ownership and writing...

Teaching and Learning Online: A Collaboration between U.S. and Taiwanese Students

Lauren Cifuentes; Yu-Chih Doris Shih

Journal of Research on Computing in Education Vol. 33, No. 4 (2001)

Explores benefits and limitations of online teaching and learning, online teaching strategies, and cultural aspects associated with cross-cultural collaboration based on email correspondence between American preservice teachers and Taiwanese...

Virtually Field-Based Teacher Education: Can It Work?

Lauren Cifuentes; Yu-Chih Doris Shih

International Journal of Educational Telecommunications Vol. 6, No. 4 (2000) pp. 287–302

We asked, "Can virtual meetings via interactive videoconfer-encing systems and desktop videoconferencing systems be as rewarding as face-to-face meetings?" One hundred and two preservice teachers met with three mentor-teachers to forma-tively...

Topics: Learning Outcomes, Interaction, Instructional Design

One Tale of How and Why To Teach and Learn Online Internationally

Yu-Chih Doris Shih; Lauren Cifuentes

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 45, No. 6 (2001) pp. 8–13

Provides a rationale for online instructional practice in teacher education and in foreign language learning and summarizes the online teaching and learning strategies applied by the partners in a telecommunications partnership between two...

Task Design and Its Induced Learning Effects in a Cross-Institutional Blog-Mediated Telecollaboration

Wen-Chun Chen; Yu-Chih Doris Shih; Gi-Zen Liu

Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 28, No. 4 (2015) pp. 285–305

This research investigated if and how the instructional design affected the learning outcome in a blog-mediated project, namely students' communicative writing in the social media. Thirty-four college-level English learners from two universities in...

Online Collaborative Documents for Research and Coursework

Karen L. Murphy; Lauren Cifuentes; Yu-Chih Doris Shih

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 48, No. 3 (2004) pp. 40–44

The increased use of the internet in higher education has helped researchers conduct collaborative research and enabled faculty to provide opportunities for students to work collaboratively in their courses. The authors of this article use online...