{"title":"Purposeful interpersonal interaction and the point of diminishing returns for graduate learners","authors":"Scott Mehall","doi":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100774","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100774","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social constructivist based course designs in online learning are emphasized in higher education as a way to highlight and capitalize on the benefits of interpersonal interaction. Course designers have generally taken a “more is better” approach to interpersonal interaction; however, some evidence points to a point of diminishing returns for interpersonal interaction. Purposeful interpersonal interaction (PII) is a framework for identifying high quality interpersonal interactions which are demonstrated to lead to better student outcomes. This study attempted to shed insight on how PII relates to student satisfaction and perceived learning in asynchronous environments by comparing courses in two graduate business programs. Results demonstrated that greater PII does generally lead to greater student satisfaction and perceived learning. Comparison of the programs also revealed that similar levels of satisfaction and learning can be achieved despite lesser levels of PII, giving evidence of a point of diminishing returns.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48186,"journal":{"name":"Internet and Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100774","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79321450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embedded experts in online collaborative learning: A case study","authors":"Jennifer Lock , Petrea Redmond","doi":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100773","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100773","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The affordance of online communication and collaboration technology provides a forum for preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and teacher educators to engage in authentic discourse where multiple perspectives can be shared. This qualitative case study explores the perceptions and experiences of embedded experts in a global learning community that occurred over a 12 year period. The study was designed using the Online </span>Collaborative Learning Framework developed by the authors in 2006. The goal of the study was to provide a nuanced understanding of embedded experts in online discussion that engage in real world issues related to today's diverse and digital classrooms. From the thematic analysis of the data, the following three implications emerged: Purposeful selection of technology; orientation and supports for the experts; and design of an organic environment that fosters the development of community including embedded experts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48186,"journal":{"name":"Internet and Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100773","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82032345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kevin O'Neill, Natália Lopes, John Nesbit, Suzanne Reinhardt, Kanthi Jayasundera
{"title":"Modeling undergraduates' selection of course modality: A large sample, multi-discipline study","authors":"Kevin O'Neill, Natália Lopes, John Nesbit, Suzanne Reinhardt, Kanthi Jayasundera","doi":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100776","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100776","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scholarly understanding is limited with regard to what influences students' choice to take a particular course fully online or in-person. We surveyed 650 undergraduates at a public Canadian university who were enrolled in courses that were offered in both modalities during the same semester, for roughly the same tuition cost. The courses spanned a wide range of disciplines, from archaeology to computing science. Twenty-five variables were gauged, covering areas including students' personal circumstances, their competence in the language of instruction, previous experience with online courses, grade expectations, and psychological variables including their regulation of their time and study environment, work avoidance and social goal orientation. Two logistic regression models (of modality of enrolment and modality of preference) both had good fit to the data, each correctly classifying roughly 75% of cases using different variables. Implications for instructional design and enrolment management are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48186,"journal":{"name":"Internet and Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100776","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38526962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dialogicality in making sense of online collaborative interaction: A conceptual perspective","authors":"Maarit Arvaja , Raija Hämäläinen","doi":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100771","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100771","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In higher education, learning activities increasingly take place in online collaborative groups. In this conceptual paper, we explore online collaborative interaction from the perspective of dialogicality. We aim to reconceptualize the notion of “productive interaction” and the typical focus of its research by turning attention to the dialogic features of collaborative interaction, especially the notions of alterity, dialogic attitude, and dialogic orientation. In relation to this, we offer a contextual perspective on collaborative interaction. Relying on data from an online university course, we conceptually analyze specified components of dialogicality. This article illustrates and explores the conceptual framework that connects different contexts in dialogic meaning-making. We also discuss our conceptual and empirical exploration from the pedagogical perspective.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48186,"journal":{"name":"Internet and Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100771","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83299616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How internet essay mill websites portray the student experience of higher education","authors":"Charles Crook , Elizabeth Nixon","doi":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100775","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100775","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Higher education is under mounting pressure to confront student practices of assignment outsourcing to internet services. The scale and buoyancy of this ‘essay mill’ industry has now been well documented, including its various marketing techniques for urging students to purchase bespoke academic work. However, the inherently suspect nature of such services demands that they adopt a particularly shrewd and empathic rhetoric to win custom from website visitors. In this paper, we investigate how such rhetoric currently constructs a critical version of the student's higher education experience. We present a thematic analysis of promotional text and images as found on a large sample of essay mill sites. Findings reveal how these sites promulgate a hostile and negative attitude towards higher educational practice. Yet these findings may also indicate where the higher education sector needs to reflect on its practice, not least in order to resist the toxic messages of essay mills.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48186,"journal":{"name":"Internet and Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100775","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80590924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experts speaking: Crucial teacher attributes for implementing blended learning in higher education","authors":"Bram Bruggeman , Jo Tondeur , Katrien Struyven , Bram Pynoo , Anja Garone , Silke Vanslambrouck","doi":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100772","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100772","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While blended learning in higher education is valued for various reasons such as addressing students' needs for flexibility, blended learning implementation remains a challenging process. Because the teacher lies at the heart of any educational change process, the current qualitative study investigates crucial teacher attributes for blended learning implementation from the perspective of experts. Experts can analyze deep structures of complex organizational problems and hold process knowledge that can generate practical effect. Twelve expert interviews are conducted and reveal two groups of blended learning teacher attributes: seven adaptive attributes such as realizing a pedagogical need for change or creatively connecting technologies to learning processes, and four maladaptive attributes such as a need for a clear understanding of blended learning or feeling anxious about (the implications of) technology. This study utilizes a holistic approach to identify related teacher attributes that critically influence the implementation of blended learning in higher education.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48186,"journal":{"name":"Internet and Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100772","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81118692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ioana Jivet , Maren Scheffel , Marcel Schmitz , Stefan Robbers , Marcus Specht , Hendrik Drachsler
{"title":"From students with love: An empirical study on learner goals, self-regulated learning and sense-making of learning analytics in higher education","authors":"Ioana Jivet , Maren Scheffel , Marcel Schmitz , Stefan Robbers , Marcus Specht , Hendrik Drachsler","doi":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100758","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Unequal stakeholder engagement is a common pitfall of adoption approaches of learning analytics in higher education leading to lower buy-in and flawed tools that fail to meet the needs of their target groups. With each design decision, we make assumptions on how learners will make sense of the visualisations, but we know very little about how students make sense of dashboard and which aspects influence their sense-making. We investigated how learner goals and self-regulated learning (SRL) skills influence dashboard sense-making following a mixed-methods research methodology: a qualitative pre-study followed-up with an extensive quantitative study with 247 university students. We uncovered three latent variables for sense-making: <em>transparency of design</em>, <em>reference frames</em> and <em>support for action</em>. SRL skills are predictors for how relevant students find these constructs. Learner goals have a significant effect only on the perceived relevance of reference frames. Knowing which factors influence students' sense-making will lead to more inclusive and flexible designs that will cater to the needs of both novice and expert learners.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48186,"journal":{"name":"Internet and Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100758","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91711160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vanessa A. Cooper , Giuseppe Forino , Sittimont Kanjanabootra , Jason von Meding
{"title":"Leveraging the community of inquiry framework to support web-based simulations in disaster studies","authors":"Vanessa A. Cooper , Giuseppe Forino , Sittimont Kanjanabootra , Jason von Meding","doi":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100757","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Web-based simulations (WBS) are increasingly used by educators to deliver higher education curricula. Given the growing number and diversity of students undertaking study in higher education institutions worldwide, it is critical that WBS are situated within a wider social-constructivist approach that facilitates community-based learning. To this end, we argue that the community of inquiry (CoI) framework offers a suitable solution. Based on a series of interviews with university educators and emergency management practitioners this paper investigates how the CoI framework can support the effective use of WBS to deliver disaster studies curricula in the higher education context. The findings indicate that purposefully addressing cognitive, social and teaching presence within a CoI is valuable when WBS are used in higher education and emphasise a range of issues that are particular to the use of WBS and the disaster studies context.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48186,"journal":{"name":"Internet and Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100757","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91747581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating access, quality, and equity in online learning: A case study of a MOOC-based blended professional degree program","authors":"Joshua Littenberg-Tobias , Justin Reich","doi":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100759","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>As massive open online courses (MOOCs) shift toward professional degree and certificate programs, can they become a global on-ramp for increasing access to emerging fields for underrepresented groups? This mixed-methods study addresses this question by examining one of the first MOOC-based blended professional degree programs, which admitted students to an accelerated residential master's program on the basis of performance in MOOCs and a proctored exam. We found that male students and students with master's degrees were more likely to complete the online program and the blended program had more male students and more students with master's degrees than students in the existing residential program. Students who enrolled in the blended graduate program earned higher average grades than students in the residential program earned in their in-person courses (3.86 vs 3.75, </span><em>p</em> < .01). The findings of this study provide an example of how new online learning models can serve particular niches, but may not address broader equity challenges.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48186,"journal":{"name":"Internet and Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100759","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91711159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design principles for electronic work integrated learning (eWIL)","authors":"Charmaine Glavas, Lisa Schuster","doi":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100760","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100760","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Technology extends the accessibility of work integrated learning (WIL) experiences in higher education – a key strategic priority for many universities. Despite growth in the implementation of electronic WIL (eWIL) initiatives, to date no studies provide design principles to guide development of these initiatives as called for by the literature. To address this gap, this research uses a co-design approach with sixteen interviews with undergraduate and postgraduate students who had participated in eWIL. Four design principles for eWIL are proposed, including (1) authenticity, (2) integration of technology, (3) effective support processes, and (4) fostering of co-presence and relationship building. The study found student and expert academic insights from extant literature on design principles generally aligned, however, the importance of fostering co-presence and relationship building emerged from the interview data along with an expanded understanding of authenticity within the eWIL context.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48186,"journal":{"name":"Internet and Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100760","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79114937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}