Designing an Interactive Student Orientation to Build Social Connectedness

Suriya Thongsawat; Gayle Davidson-Shivers; Bhudnumphueng Chatphoomiphong

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 28, No. 1 (January 2019) pp. 99–112

A new student orientation is arranged to assist students in their adjustment to college. To do so, it is essential for the program to provide students an opportunity to connect to other students, instructors, academic advisors, and the university....

Designing an Interactive Student Orientation to Build Social Connectedness

Suriya Thongsawat; Gayle Davidson-Shivers; Bhudnumphueng Chatphoomiphong

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2017 (Jun 20, 2017) pp. 1116–1124

A new student orientation is arranged to assist students in their adjustment to college. To do so, it is essential for the program to provide students an opportunity to connect to other students, instructors, academic advisors, and the university....

Topics: interactive learning environments, Implementation Experiences

Content Analyses of Asynchronous Discussions in Online and Blended Course Sections: Completing Phase 2 of Our Study

Gayle V. Davidson-Shivers; Angela Doucet Rand; Suriya "Em" Thongsawat

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 1846–1855

At the 2017 Ed Media conference, we presented preliminary findings about discussion participation by students in either a blended or fully online section of the same course. The content analyses findings indicated some differences in number of...

Topics: Learning Communities, Blended Learning, social networks

Content Analyses of Student Asynchronous Discussions in Online and Blended Sections of a Graduate Course

Gayle Davidson-Shivers; Suriya Thongsawat; Angela Doucet Rand; T. Shane Mitchell; Crystal Thomas

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2017 (Jun 20, 2017) pp. 621–629

A content analyses was conducted on the asynchronous discussions from students in either a blended section or an online section. Preliminary findings suggest that students in the blended section had greater numbers (about double) of total messages...

Topics: pedagogical issues, Implementation Experiences, SIG: Learning Design