The Evolution of Distance Learning: Distance Education, Virtual Classrooms, and Web-Based Instruction

Ya-Ting Yang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 337–341

Distance learning is a great tool for educators to reach traditional and non-traditional learners. Yet, like any tool, it is only useful in the hands of someone who clearly knows what it is, and how to use it. Nowadays there is considerable...

Topics: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Distance Education

Using Synchronous Online Peer Response Groups in EFL Writing: Revision-Related Discourse

Mei-Ya Liang

Language Learning & Technology Vol. 14, No. 1 (February 2010) pp. 45–64

In recent years, synchronous online peer response groups have been increasingly used in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. This article describes a study of synchronous online interaction among three small peer groups in a Taiwanese...

The Effects of Cognitive Learning Style and Prior Computer Experience on Taiwanese College Students' Computer Self-Efficacy in Computer Literacy Courses

Ya-Ming Shiue

Journal of Educational Technology Systems Vol. 31, No. 4 (2003) pp. 393–409

This study examines the influences of learners' characteristics on the development of computer self-efficacy using the GOMS (goal, operators, methods, and selection rules) model. Students' learning style, prior computer course experience, and...

Investigating the Sources of Teachers' Instructional Technology Use through the Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior

Ya-Ming Shiue

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 36, No. 4 (2007) pp. 425–453

Based on the decomposed theory of planned behavior, this study used path analysis to examine the relative strength of the factors that influence teachers' use of instructional technology. The study focused on teachers' use of word processors,...

Interaction in EFL online classes: How Web-facilitated instruction influences EFL university students' reading and learning

Mei-Ya Liang

Interaction in EFL online @?classes: How Web@-facilitated @?instruction influences EFL university students' reading and @?learning (2006) pp. 1–171

This dissertation explored how EFL students' interactions with web-facilitated instruction influenced their second language reading and learning. The study took place in an EFL course at a well-known university in northern Taiwan for a semester. An...

Building virtual cities, inspiring intelligent citizens: Digital games for developing students’ problem solving and learning motivation

Ya-Ting Carolyn Yang

Computers & Education Vol. 59, No. 2 (September 2012) pp. 365–377

This study investigates the effectiveness digital game-based learning (DGBL) on students’ problem solving, learning motivation, and academic achievement. In order to provide substantive empirical evidence, a quasi-experimental design was implemented ...

Educational opportunities for Chinese in Malaysia

Ya-Fang Chiu

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 33, No. 6 pp. 585–591

Malaysia is a multi-ethnic country with three main ethnic groups: Malays, Chinese, and Indians. Malays are the largest ethnic group, comprising 57% of the population. Unlike the majority population in most modern countries, the Malays have been the...

Language: English

Foreign Ludicity in Online Role-Playing Games

Mei-Ya Liang

Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 25, No. 5 (2012) pp. 455–473

This article reports on an explorative case study which, in the first place, aimed to ascertain different types of foreign language play in online role-playing in "Second Life," and which, secondly aimed to describe how various sources of contextual ...

The evaluation of a technology-aided lecture accompanied by a set of macroeconomics computer interactive exercises in macroeconomics for the undergraduate business major in Taiwan

Ya-Wen (Amara) Hung

The @?evaluation of a technology@-aided@lecture @?accompanied by a @?set of macroeconomics computer@interactive@exercises in macroeconomics for the undergraduate business@major in Taiwan (2005) pp. 1–337

With the increased interest in the use of computer technology in education, more and more educators are in need of integrating computers into their curricula. So far, there is a lack of studies to measure the impact of using the Technology-Aided...

The Application of Computer-mediated Communication to Enhance Students’ Literature Appreciation

Ya-huei Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 602–606

Computer-medicated communication (CMC) has been emphasized for learning-and-instruction in the last decades, which allow students to post their reflection and to enhance their writing skills for communication. The purpose of the study was to apply...

Asynchronous On-Line Discussions: Facilitating Critical Thinking Skills in Distance Education

Ya-Ting Yang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 2103–2104

In distance education, students and instructors rarely meet face-to-face and interactive discussions are infrequent, if they take place at all. Such challenges make it difficult to model thinking skills or guide students through the thinking process....

Topics: Students, Distance Education

SCMC Interaction and Writing Revision: Facilitative or Futile?

Mei-Ya Liang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 2886–2892

This study examined whether and how SCMC interaction facilitates the writing revisions of EFL university students. Through analyses of chatroom transcripts and writing drafts, the author found that group dynamics had an impact on the quality and...

Asynchronous On-Line Discussions: Facilitating Critical Thinking Skills Within Traditional Classrooms

Ya-Ting Yang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 335–336

In a traditional classroom, discussions are often hindered due to limited class time and unequal access of interaction. It is difficult for instructors to monitor collaborative discussions and critical thinking. An asynchronous online forum is a...

Second Language Students' Experiences of Second Life: From Text Chat to 3D Play

Mei-Ya Liang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1339–1344

This paper reports on a semester-long online collaborative project, in which 20 second language (L2) students co-constructed content and activities to play in Second Life (SL). Drawing upon the concept of language play, the author shares her...

A Study of Teacher-Student Collaboration on Course Design with Technology at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in Taiwan

Ya-chen Kao

(2011) pp. 1–129

To survive in the continuously changing information environment, many institutions in Taiwan have increased their demand for technologically literate faculty. To date, few faculty of Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages (WUCL) consider themselves...

A Catalyst for Teaching Critical Thinking in a Large University Class in Taiwan: Asynchronous Online Discussions with the Facilitation of Teaching Assistants

Ya-Ting C. Yang

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 56, No. 3 (June 2008) pp. 241–264

This study was designed to investigate the effects of teaching critical thinking skills (CTS) in a large class through asynchronous discussion forums (ADFs) with the facilitation of teaching assistants. A pretest and posttest quasi-experimental...

Cultivating critical thinkers: Exploring transfer of learning from pre-service teacher training to classroom practice

Ya-Ting Carolyn Yang

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 28, No. 8 (November 2012) pp. 1116–1130

This study explores the transfer of critical thinking skills and dispositions from pre-service teacher training to classroom practice and student achievement in the cases of two graduates from a course on critical thinking-integrated instruction....

Language: English

Educational game themes of a fraction brick game

Ya Ling Lee

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2008 (2008) pp. 527–531

Learning through gaming: Teaching visual arts to elementary grade students

Ya-Lan Yang

(2009) pp. 1–84

This study aims to investigate the cognitive and affective impact that a Web-based Flash game called “Color in Motion,” has on teaching visual arts to elementary grade students. Pretests and posttests, observations, recordings of on-screen game play ...

Use Feedback and Fuzzy Self-Organizing Map to improve adaptive e-learning model

Ya-Huei Chen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3474–3480

This research will use the ideas of Feedback and fuzzy Self-Organizing Map (SOM) to improve adaptive e-learning model. It uses feedback function to update teaching material of e-learning system continuously. Make dynamic adjustment according to the...

Digital Plagiarism as Digital Cheating: The Influence of Achievement Goals and Copy-and-Paste Function

Ya-Shu Yang

(2011) pp. 1–126

This paper presents an empirical study of digital plagiarism. Under two experimental conditions, undergraduate writers were induced to copy from a website and/or a sample essay. The study focused on two possible influences on plagiarism, a) students ...

The effects of authentic materials on motivation and reading achievement of EFL (English as aforeign language) learners in Taiwan

Ya-Fen Lin

The effects of authentic materials on motivation and reading achievement of EFL (English@as@a@foreign@language) learners in Taiwan (2004) pp. 1–192

Authentic and web-based authentic foreign language materials, not specifically designed with pedagogical goals have been recognized to be effective and interesting materials in many studies. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to...

A Virtual Walk through London: Culture Learning through a Cultural Immersion Experience

Ya-Chun Shih

Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 28, No. 5 (2015) pp. 407–428

Integrating Google Street View into a three-dimensional virtual environment in which users control personal avatars provides these said users with access to an innovative, interactive, and real-world context for communication and culture learning....

Virtual CEOs: A blended approach to digital gaming for enhancing higher order thinking and academic achievement among vocational high school students

Ya-Ting Carolyn Yang

Computers & Education Vol. 81, No. 1 (February 2015) pp. 281–295

The requirements of a contemporary workplace include the ability to think critically and creatively in order to solve problems and respond to changes in economic and social conditions. Unfortunately, vocational education often fails to prepare...

Language: English

Instructional Strategies for Web-Based Bulletin Boards to Stimulate Interaction and Improve Student Learning Performance in Distance Education

Ya-Ting Yang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 2105–2106

History has shown that interaction is an essential component in the learning process. Integrating interaction into a traditional classroom is relatively easy; however, moving that interaction into several time zones is much more difficult. Web-based ...

Topics: Distance Education, Interaction

Building an Open Chinese Language Course in Moodle

Hui-Ya Chuang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 2245–2246

Open Educational Resources (OER) opened a new window for course development and delivery. This study will discuss the advantages of using Open Educational Resources in courses. The final project is to build an intermediate level Chinese language...

The Role of Perceived Resources in E-Learning Adoption

Ya-Ching Lee

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) p. 8084

This study examines perceptions of adequate resources that can facilitate or inhibit students' adoption of an e-learning system (ELS), through an extension of the technology acceptance model (TAM). The results of the study confirm the original TAM...

Topics: Training

The Use of Discussion Forums to Enhance Students' English Proficiency

Ya-huei Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 607–610

The purpose of this study was to use discussion forum to investigate whether university students going through the discussion forum activities can exhibit better learning achievement, in terms of listening, vocabulary, grammar, and reading, and...

Gamification Design: A Comparison of Four M-Learning Courses

Ya-Ling Wu

Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 55, No. 4 (2018) pp. 470–478

Gamification can enhance learners' autonomous motivation and enable them to feel enthusiastic during the cognitive absorption process. Therefore, this study explores developing a productive mobile learning (m-learning) atmosphere that enables...

Rethinking Authenticity: Voice and Feedback in Media Discourse

Mei-Ya Liang

Computers and Composition Vol. 30, No. 3 (September 2013) pp. 157–179

As authentic communicative practices, news writing and media discourse have the potential to serve as pedagogical tools for foreign language students to explore content of interest. This study analyzed university students’ media discourse in the...

Language: English

Constructing a joint story-writing space: The dynamics of young children's collaboration at computers

Ya-Hui Chung

Constructing a joint@story@-writing space: The dynamics of young@children's collaboration at computers (2005) pp. 1–141

This study explored kindergartners' and first graders' collaborative processes in order to understand the nature of peer collaboration and the learning opportunities afforded by peer discourse. Framed by a sociocultural perspective and relying on...

The effectiveness of computer-based multimedia instruction in Chinese character recognition

Hui-Ya Chuang

The effectiveness of computer-based multimedia instruction in Chinese character@recognition (2010) pp. 1–144

The purpose of this study was to examine second language learners' learning achievement and attitudes toward two different types of dual coding designs (image plus on-screen text versus image plus narration) in Chinese character acquisition. Student ...

The Moderation Examination of ICT Use on the Association Between Chinese Mainland Students’ Socioeconomic Status and Reading Achievement

Ya Xiao; Jie Hu

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 14, No. 15 (Aug 01, 2019) pp. 107–120

This study explores the moderation effect of the information and communication technology (ICT) on the association between students’ socioeconomic status and their reading achievement. In total, 9,596 samples of 15 years old from 268 schools in...

Language: English

The Effects of Organizational Factors on Blended Learning

Ya-Ting Teng

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 965–970

This paper is based on a strategic view for human resource development to discuss practices of blended learning. The purposes of this study are to explore how organizational factors shape blended learning and how the practices align with external...

Rethinking Blog-Integrated EFL Curricula: A Reflection on Participation and Learning

Mei-Ya Liang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 1686–1691

In recent years, the weblog has become a popular Internet learning and communication environment, but its pedagogical potential for participation and learning in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts has not yet been fully explored. Using...

Using Discussion Forum to Enhance Students’ Critical Thinking Ability through the Blackboard Learning System

Ya-huei Wang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 3243–3252

An Online discussion forum has been overemphasized for learning and instruction in the last decades. Using the online discussion forums to post and respond to messages for academic discussion and communication, students can enhance their active...

Taiwanese kindergartners' social interaction behavior and its relationship to computer software

Ya-Hui Chen

Taiwanese kindergartners' social@interaction behavior and its relationship to computer software (2002) pp. 1–124

Computer technology has been playing an important role in early childhood education. It changes the way children learn and how they interact with peers. However, the kind of software children use at computers may affect their growth in key...

The effects of asynchronous peer review on university students' argumentative writing

Ya-Chin Tsai

The effects of asynchronous@peer@review on university students' argumentative@writing (2006) pp. 1–188

In contrast to oral response groups, asynchronous peer review (APR) has received relatively little attention in writing research. This study was motivated largely by the question of whether delayed peer commentary relayed by technology could lead...

Interrogating the One Laptop Per Child project

Ya-Yin Ko

(2009) pp. 1–140

This thesis uses discourse analysis to interrogate the ideological underpinnings of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and how it articulates the development subject. Led by MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC sells a nonprofit...

The relationship between epistemic beliefs and knowledge contribution to online communities of practice

Ya-Ting Teng

(2010) pp. 1–151

Epistemic beliefs refer to individual beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between individuals’ levels of expertise, epistemic beliefs, and their contributions to an online...

The role of perceived resources in online learning adoption

Ya-Ching Lee

Computers & Education Vol. 50, No. 4 (May 2008) pp. 1423–1438

This study examines perceptions of adequate resources that can facilitate or inhibit students’ adoption of an online learning system, through an extension of the technology acceptance model (TAM) to include the perspectives of intra- and extra...

Language: English

"It was just doing what you know about and move on, you know, just to survive". A beginning elementary teacher’s story of using technology in the classroom during her first two years.

Ya-Huei Lu

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 35–39

The purpose of this case study is to present an in-depth story of a beginning first-grade teacher, Luly, conceptualized technology integration and the degree to which technology was infused in her pedagogy during her first two years of teaching....

Topics: Early Childhood Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Institute for Online Teaching: An Approach to Faculty Development Online

Martonia Gaskill; Ya-Shu Yang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1829–1834

The Summer Institute for Online Teaching, a five-week online summer faculty development program, provides online training materials and resources to faculty at a Midwestern University. The Institute leads both novice and experienced faculty through ...

Online Assessment and Digital Cheating: An Exploratory Study of Using Maple TA

Ya-shu Yang; Martonia Gaskill

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3419–3424

The purpose of this study is to address the relationship between digital cheating and online assessments in distance education. Distance education has been pressured by accreditation agencies to show evidences of the quality of online instruction...

Students Reading Performance on and Attitude toward Working with Computer-based Learning Worksheets

Hsiu-Ping Yueh; Ya-Ting Teng; Ya-Wen Wang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 821–824

The purposes of this study are to explore the effects of computer-based worksheets application and to investigate students' performance on and attitude toward the computer-based learning worksheets. The results show that students perform well on the ...

Topics: Students, Networking Technologies, Computers

Reading Takes You Places: A Study of a Web-Based Summer Reading Program

Ya-Ling Lu; Carol Gordon

School Library Media Research Vol. 10 (2007)

This study looks at the effects of a Web-based summer reading program on the reading behaviors and attitudes of high school students. The school librarian and five English teachers based the program content and Web site on reading and Web design...

Cyber Language Education and Multimedia Tools

Hui-Ya Chuang; David Wolf

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) p. 320

The combination of online courses and open educational resources is a new trend in distance education. With the supporting of open educational resources, developers are able to create online courses with various contents, e.g., online articles,...

The Benefits and Challenges of Implementing E-Portfolio Assessment in Language Courses

Hui-Ya Chuang; Kai Liu

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 177–180

From high school to college, portfolio assessment has been implemented in different courses as a method of self-reflection and evaluation. This presentation will discuss the literature review of e-portfolio assessment targeted to language course,...

Topics: Evaluation, Assessment, Implementation Examples & Issues

The Use of Concept Mapping in Instructional System Design: Implications for E-Learning Design

Ya-Ting Teng; Angela Benson

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 1459–1466

As e-Learning becomes prevalent, instructional system design in the environments is significantly more important. In order to design a successful learning environment, this study explores the feasibility of incorporating concept mapping into...

Topics: Instructional Design

Teacher-Student Collaboration on Designing Instructional Multimedia Materials: A Case Study of Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages

Ya-chen Kao; Ling Wang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 1059–1064

The goal of this study was to engage students as multimedia designers for their non-technology faculty to create instructional multimedia materials at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages (WUCL) in Taiwan. Through the teacher-student collaboration,...