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Community of Inquiry (CoI) model is a framework with socio-constructivist roots, which describes an online learning community on three interdependent components: cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence. Content analysis is widely used to examine transcripts of computer mediated conversations between students in a community of inquiry. However, there are no dedicated support tools...
The DevOps phenomenon is gaining popularity through its ability to support continuous value delivery and ready accommodation of change. However, given the relative immaturity and general confusion about DevOps, a common view of expectations from a DevOps role is lacking. Through investigation of online job advertisements, combined with interviews, we identified key Knowledge Areas, Skills and Capabilities...
With the rapid expansion of computer usage technology, working in social collaborative learning environment has been a common teaching and learning techniques to students. Working collaboratively can trigger deeper discussion which may lead into an argumentative debate and the development of knowledge construction in argumentation. This process is known as argumentative knowledge construction and...
The University of Los Andes, founded in Bogota - Colombia in 1948, was the country's first private university independent from political parties and religious groups. Los Andes is an autonomous, independent, and innovative institution that started out with seven programs, 79 students, and 16 professors. Today, the university has 33 undergraduate programs, 51 masters, 15 doctoral programs, and more...
From the beginning, the online education became evident the need for new ways of performing the process of teaching and learning, as in the special case of its evaluation, according to Rocha [1] “suffer interference from their singularities”. [2], [3], [4] and [5] also express concern with this peculiarity of online assessment. [6] motivated the creation of tools able to meet increasingly, this demand...
Content analysis method has been widely used to assess students' response in online discussion. Selecting appropriate content analysis model is important to ensure the validity of research finding. As one of the ultimate goals in learning is to develop students' cognitive skills, this paper highlights the existing content analysis models adopted in previous studies to assess the cognitive aspect of...
The Web is an important resource for health information. Pew's Internet and American Life Project found 62% of adult Web users looking for health-related information on health social networks. However, the National Survey on Identity and Privacy in Social Media by The Ponemon Institute reported that about 56% of adult users were anxious about the privacy of their personal information on social networks...
Due to the vast volume of publications in nowadays research environment, methods for analyzing, organizing, and accessing information from large databases are in great need. Through appropriate analytic tools, competitive intelligence can be revealed to enhance the organization or individual performance. This article will show how a free software package called CATAR carry on the analysis about the...
The concept of technology transfer (TT) and technology exchange (TE) in construction projects can be viewed as a two-way flow which involves the transfer and exchange processes of different components of technology (i.e., knowledge, tools and skills). The transfer and exchange process could transpire at any given time or in a given project and could occur simultaneously. The application of this concept...
Based on existing researches about interaction analysis, this paper designs an interaction analysis coding system to study the level of knowledge construction in web-based interaction. Methods of content analysis and social network analysis are used to analyze the interaction content of a web class on Moodle, which provides a web-based learning platform for a national level excellent course named...
It is the focus of common concern that whether reform can succeed and achieve the desired purpose. Evaluation of IT-based teaching, which is one of the important means of evaluation on curriculum reform effect, worths an in-depth study. The elementary education curriculum reform has undergone tremendous changes in all aspects of basic education. Firstly, this thesis retrieval research on the IT-based...
Since the emergence of social software, it greatly enhances the internet user's interpersonal communication and social interaction, also affects people's learning and education. Through the content analysis of 438 academic papers published in educational Journals from 2003 to 2008, this article summarizes the characteristics, existing problems of the educational application of various social software,...
The purpose of this paper is to explore which factors influence group learning content, and content analysis is chosen as the research method. The sample for this study is the literature on group learning. 35 books and 1 paper are examined. The coding system for the content analysis is an opened and a self-expanded system in this study, which means that the original coding system can be updated if...
The case study, based on collaborative knowledge building theory, investigated online interaction characteristics and knowledge building of students who used the knowledge forum (KF) to discuss course-related content. Collected data included the discussion transcripts of a postgraduate course during one semester and students interview records. Content analysis was used to examine student participation...
The purpose of this study is to examine the differences of group learning (GL) in the classroom-based and the Web-based environments through factor analysis. Our previous study has already identified 62 influencing factors of a GL process according to the content analysis from the literature. 276 teachers participated in a well-structured questionnaire survey and the data were analyzed by SPSS. Four...
Blogs provide the contextualization of the information which is vital to the process of peer support. Through dialogues initiated by blog authors and followed by readers, blog platforms build a viable base of shared experiences and mutual relationships. We employ blogs as interactive learning tools for communities of practice in higher education. Content analysis based on empirical data is used to...
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