Learn, Play, and Teach (LPT): A Multifaceted Approach to Anti-Phishing Education

Tenzin Doleck

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1079–1083

The increased frequency of fraud, theft, and security incidents online is a major cause for user concern as this threatens their confidence in the online space. Phishing has emerged as a significant threat and a pressing concern for users and...

Topics: interactive learning environments, Multimedia/Hypermedia Applications, Multimedia/Hypermedia Systems

Hooked by Phishing: Addressing the Need for User Education in Identifying Phishing Emails Through an Anti-Phishing Game

Tenzin Doleck

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 1440–1444

Phishing, a deception technique via spoofed emails to gather sensitive information from unsuspecting users, has become a significant threat. The Internet’s medium of supporting effortless content creation and distribution has exacerbated the problem ...

NgageCollab: A Gamified Platform to Foster Engagement and Collaboration Amongst Researchers

Tenzin Doleck; Susanne Lajoie

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 610–614

The affordances of online collaboration platforms make them increasingly popular. Although many of these platforms are well designed, very often, teams adopting these platforms in their projects realize little value because of the lack of engagement ...

Topics: Computer-Mediated Communication, distributed learning environments, interactive learning environments

Social Networking and Academic Performance: A Review

Tenzin Doleck; Susanne Lajoie

Education and Information Technologies Vol. 23, No. 1 (2018) pp. 435–465

The ubiquitous use of social networking sites by students and the potential impacts of such use on academic performance are of both theoretical and practical importance. Hence, this paper addresses the question: how does the use of social networking ...

Blended Learning and Traditional Learning: A Comparative Study of College Mechanics Courses

Paul Bazelais; Tenzin Doleck

Education and Information Technologies Vol. 23, No. 6 (2018) pp. 2889–2900

Research has suggested that learning approaches such as blended learning can enhance both the quality of instruction and student learning outcomes in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) education. However, little is known...

Perceptions of Online Learning and Technology Use: A Study of CEGEP Students

Paul Bazelais; Tenzin Doleck

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 987–991

The purpose of this research is to investigate pre-university science Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel (CEGEP) students’ perceptions of online learning and technology use. To probe into their perceptions of online learning and...

Topics: Other

Investigating the Performance of Antecedents of Behavioral Intentions to Use Online Learning Technologies

Paul Bazelais; Tenzin Doleck

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 360–364

Technology acceptance is a stream of research geared toward understanding why users adopt and use technology. Most technology acceptance research is concerned with unearthing the antecedent factors of either behavioral intentions and/or use of...

Topics: Usability/User Studies, Computer-Mediated Communication, Evaluation of Impact

The Role of Behavioral Expectation in Technology Acceptance: A CEGEP Case Study

Tenzin Doleck; Paul Bazelais; David John Lemay

Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 30, No. 3 (2018) pp. 407–425

It is widely recognized and accepted that behavioral intention is the key direct determinant of technology use and the majority of research continues to promote this practice. Yet the influence of behavioral intention (i.e., an individual's...

The Role of Attachment in Facebook Usage: A Study of Canadian College Students

Timothy Teo; Tenzin Doleck; Paul Bazelais

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 26, No. 2 (2018) pp. 256–272

Considering the increasingly ubiquitous and frequent use of Facebook among college students, this study sought to explicate and unravel the salient determinants of Facebook use. Specifically, the main goal was to ascertain the factors influencing ...

Exploring Case Specificity in Medical Students’ Clinical Reasoning

Tenzin Doleck; Eric Poitras; Susanne Lajoie

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2017 (Oct 17, 2017) pp. 572–577

Advances in educational technology have provided various promising solutions for yielding useful insights about learning from learner-system interaction data Previous research has suggested the existence of case-specificity in clinical reasoning ...

Topics: research

Investigating the Predictive Power of TAM: A Case Study of CEGEP Students' Intentions to Use Online Learning Technologies

Paul Bazelais; Tenzin Doleck; David John Lemay

Education and Information Technologies Vol. 23, No. 1 (2018) pp. 93–111

The purpose of this research is to investigate pre-university science "Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel" (CEGEP) students' behavioral intentions towards using online learning technologies. Heretofore, CEGEP students' use of...

Assessing the Utility of Deep Learning: Using Learner-System Interaction Data from BioWorld

Tenzin Doleck; Eric Poitras; Susanne Lajoie

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 734–738

In recent years, deep learning (LeCun, Bengio, & Hinton, 2015) has drawn interest in many fields. As optimism for deep learning grows, a better understanding of the efficacy of deep learning is imperative, especially in analyzing and making sense of ...

Topics: Performance and outcome assessment, Simulations for learning, Data Analytics

Advancing teacher technology education using open-ended learning environments as research and training platforms

Eric Poitras; Tenzin Doleck; Lingyun Huang; Shan Li; Susanne Lajoie

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 33, No. 3 (Jul 24, 2017)

A primary concern of teacher technology education is for pre-service teachers to develop a sophisticated mental model of the affordances of technology that facilitates both teaching and learning with technology. One of the main obstacles to...

Exploring Computer Science Students' Continuance Intentions to Use Kattis

Ram B. Basnet; Tenzin Doleck; David John Lemay; Paul Bazelais

Education and Information Technologies Vol. 23, No. 3 (2018) pp. 1145–1158

Teaching programming concepts to enhance students' problem solving and computational thinking skills is a challenging task, especially when students enter college with little to no preparation, or they lack the interest or capacity for programming....

Towards Detection of Learner Misconceptions in a Medical Learning Environment: A Subgroup Discovery Approach

Eric G. Poitras; Tenzin Doleck; Susanne P. Lajoie

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 66, No. 1 (2018) pp. 129–145

Ill-structured problems, by definition, have multiple paths to a solution and are multifaceted making automated assessment and feedback a difficult challenge. Diagnostic reasoning about medical cases meet the criteria of ill-structured problem...

A Tale of Three Cases: Examining Accuracy, Efficiency, and Process Differences in Diagnosing Virtual Patient Cases

Tenzin Doleck; Amanda Jarrell; Eric Poitras; Maher Chaouachi; Susanne Lajoie

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 32, No. 5 (Dec 01, 2016)

Clinical reasoning is a central skill in diagnosing cases. However, diagnosing a clinical case poses several challenges that are inherent to solving multifaceted ill-structured problems. In particular, when solving such problems, the complexity...

Diagnosing Virtual Patient Cases: Gender Differences in Novice Physicians in a Computer Based Learning Environment

Tenzin Doleck; Amanda Jarrell; Eric Poitras; Susanne Lajoie

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 494–498

There has been considerable interest to better understand the nature, possible source, and affects of gender differences in education. Examining performance differences across genders can have implications from an instructional design perspective;...

Topics: Gender, Usability/User Studies

Detecting Dummy Learner Submitted Annotations in an Online Case Learning Environment

Tenzin Doleck; Eric Poitras; Laura Naismith; Susanne Lajoie

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 498–503

One of the key approaches in designing adaptive learning systems is the use of algorithms that can process and discover interesting, interpretable, and meaningful knowledge from the data tracked and logged by learning systems. Text classification...

Topics: Design of Distance Learning Systems, interactive learning environments, Methodologies for System Design

Subgroup Discovery with User Interaction Data: An Empirically Guided Approach to Improving Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Eric G. Poitras; Susanne P. Lajoie; Tenzin Doleck; Amanda Jarrell

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 19, No. 2 (2016) pp. 204–214

Learner modeling, a challenging and complex endeavor, is an important and oft-studied research theme in computer-supported education. From this perspective, Educational Data Mining (EDM) research has focused on modeling and comprehending various...

Using Learning Analytics to Identify Medical Student Misconceptions in an Online Virtual Patient Environment

Eric G. Poitras; Laura M. Naismith; Tenzin Doleck; Susanne P. Lajoie

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 20, No. 2 (2016) pp. 183–194

This study aimed to identify misconceptions in medical student knowledge by mining user interactions in the MedU online learning environment. Data from 13000 attempts at a single virtual patient case were extracted from the MedU MySQL database. A...