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South Dakota Distance Educational Experience: Correspondence, Telecourse, DDN, and On-line Courses
Jack Fei Yang
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4650–4664
The concept and history of distance educational development and application in the State of South Dakota, USA, provides a potential vision for development of distance education in other parts of the world. South Dakota continued to adopt and adapt...
Topics: Distance Education, Instructional Design, Educational Technology
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Integrating Synchronous with Asynchronous: Bringing Off-campus Students to Virtual Classroom
Ang Yang; Dr Kinshuk
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 947–954
Although web-based learning systems (WBLS) have a lot of advantages over traditional face-to-face learning, they have certain limitations that hinder the learning process. For example, current web based systems do not allow the integration of...
Topics: Students
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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
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Engaging Students in an Online Situated Language Learning Environment
Yu-Fen Yang
Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 24, No. 2 (2011) pp. 181–198
Previous studies have emphasized the relationship between students' engagement and learning performance, and yet the context in which students and the teacher interact to engage each other has been ignored. In order to engage college students who...
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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...
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An Interpretive and Situated Approach to an Evaluation of Perseus Digital Libraries
Shu Ching Yang
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 52, No. 14 (2001) pp. 1210–23
Adopts an interpretive and situated approach to observe and assess learners' problem solving using hypermedia. Conducts the evaluation in context by considering the use of Perseus, a hypermedia research project and online digital library developed...
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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...
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Application of Brain Neural Network in Personalized English Education System
Songlin Yang; Min Zhang
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 13, No. 10 (Oct 26, 2018) pp. 15–22
The Personalized Education System (PES) provides appropriate counseling pro-gram as per the different demands and the natures of learners. Its education quali-ty depends on the individuality to a great extent. The Brain Neural Network (BNN) can...
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Content Based Lecture Video Retrieval Using Speech and Video Text Information
Haojin Yang; Christoph Meinel
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies Vol. 7, No. 2 (2014) pp. 142–154
In the last decade e-lecturing has become more and more popular. The amount of lecture video data on the "World Wide Web" (WWW) is growing rapidly. Therefore, a more efficient method for video retrieval in WWW or within large lecture video ...
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Collaborative Learning in a Blended Learning Environment--A Case Study of a Web Design Course in a Midwestern University in USA
Mingli Xiao; Xiao Yang
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 995–1000
This is a qualitative case study of 19 students’ experiences collaborating in web design course in a blended learning environment. The purpose of the study is to examine how collaborative learning in such an environment helps students to acquire...
Topics: Blended Learning
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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
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Students’ reflection on online self-correction and peer review to improve writing
Yu-Fen Yang
Computers & Education Vol. 55, No. 3 (November 2010) pp. 1202–1210
Reflection is considered as a mental process of an individual’s internal problem-solving activity and rarely observed in face-to-face instruction. As a consequence, students have few opportunities to observe and learn from each other. This study...
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Physical Education Motion Correction System Based on Virtual Reality Technology
Yongzhong Yang; Lingfeng Meng
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 14, No. 13 (Jul 15, 2019) pp. 105–116
Compared with traditional physical education (PE), the computer virtual digital-based education system is convenient and efficient, which can effectively solve the shortcomings of traditional teaching mode, and correct the PE motions in real time....
Language: English
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College Students' Law Education Platform Based on Browser/Server and Massive Open Online Courses
Xue Yang; Zhen Song
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 14, No. 15 (Aug 01, 2019) pp. 202–210
It is compulsory for us to strength the students’ law education in China in order to develop their overall qualities. It is also what we need to build a harmonious society. Along with the steady advancement of society, the surge of information...
Language: English
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Health shocks and children's school attainments in rural China
Ang Sun; Yang Yao
Economics of Education Review Vol. 29, No. 3 pp. 375–382
Using a long panel dataset of Chinese farm households covering the period of 1987–2002, this paper studies how major health shocks happening to household adults affect children's school attainments. We find that primary school-age children are the...
Language: English
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World education finance policies and higher education access: A statistical analysis of World Development Indicators for 86 countries
Lijing Yang; Brian McCall
International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 35, No. 1 (March 2014) pp. 25–36
This study uses panel data models to analyze international indicators and examines the relationship between education finance policies and higher education access among 86 countries from 1998 to 2009. We find that public expenditure per tertiary...
Language: English
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Investigating Teacher Learning Using a Web-Based Writing Platform
Shih-hsien Yang
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 46, No. 1 (2018) pp. 78–97
Due to its complex nature and inherent unobservable features, teacher change within a specific context has rarely been investigated despite its importance as an issue in teacher professional development. To meet this challenge, the present study...
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Synergy of Constructivism and Hypermedia from Three Constructivist Perspectives--Social, Semiotic, and Cognitive
Shu Ching Yang
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 24, No. 4 (2001) pp. 321–61
Examines constructivism as an epistemological basis for the design and use of hypermedia systems in order to synergize the constructivist view of learning and the potentialities of hypermedia. Proposes a new conceptual framework for constructive...
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E-pal Project: Using Technology as Emotional Support in College Level Chinese Study-Abroad Program
Xin Yang; Wenxia Wu
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 1028–1032
This paper identifies three types of emotional problems students encountered in the 2004 W&M summer study broad program in China. Facing these problems, we design "E-pal project" that aims at raising students' comfort level and helping them...
Topics: Students
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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
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Web-based Asynchronous Synchronous Environment for Online Learning
Kinshuk ; Ang Yang
USDLA Journal Vol. 17, No. 2 (2003) pp. 5–18
Examines current limitations of Web-based learning systems (WBLS) in higher education and describes a prototype Web-based Asynchronous Synchronous Environment (WASE) that is designed to circumvent those limitations. Includes 10 figures and 2 tables. ...
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Managing Courseware Production: An Instructional Design Model with a Software Engineering Approach
Chia-Shing Yang
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 43, No. 4 (1995) pp. 60–70
Proposes an instructional design model for the production of courseware and combines this model with software engineering principles to specify project management responsibilities and procedures. Describes the roles of team members involved in the...
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Convergence on the Guidelines for Designing a Web-Based Art-Teacher Education Curriculum: A Delphi Study
Yu Nu Yang
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2000 (April 2000)
The rise of the World Wide Web as a new information processing technology has attracted the attention of educators worldwide. The purpose of this study was to seek a consensus among art education experts regarding how the Web should be integrated...
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Distance Education Librarians in the U.S. ARL Libraries and Library Services Provided to Their Distance Users
Zheng Ye Yang
Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 31, No. 2 (March 2005) pp. 92–97
This paper examines the extent to which U.S. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are providing services to their distance education library patrons, it reveals whether each U.S. ARL library has a designated librarian in charge of services to...
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Teaching second language learners with technology: A case study of a teacher learning process
Yu-Feng Diana Yang
(2005) pp. 1–283
The purpose of this study was to explore the process of teacher learning of teaching with technology by viewing teacher-learners as active agents. It argued the importance of understanding the process teachers go through to reach the ends of their...
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A case study of technology-enhanced language learning
Shu Ching Yang
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4863–4868
This study explores participants' views with regard to the integration of Internet tools in language learning activities. The subjects were 44 K10 male students and their teacher who first joined a Technology-Enhanced Language Learning project...
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Context Aware Ubiquitous Learning Environments for Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Learning
Stephen J. H. Yang
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 9, No. 1 (2006) pp. 188–201
A ubiquitous learning environment provides an interoperable, pervasive, and seamless learning architecture to connect, integrate, and share three major dimensions of learning resources: learning collaborators, learning contents, and learning...
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The development and validation of the Instrument for Evaluating Chinese Educational Software (IECES)
Yin Ou-Yang
(1997) pp. 1–187
The primary purpose of this study was to develop an instrument for evaluating educational software in elementary mathematics for educators in Taiwan. This new instrument, which was called the Instrument for Evaluating Chinese Educational Software ...
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A Case Study for Promoting Collaboration on Online Project-Based Learning
Young-Sun Yang
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 2107–2112
The interactive mechanism of the internet allows learners to interact with teachers, other learners, and contents while it facilitates teachers to interact not only with learners but also with other teachers who teach the similar or related courses...
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Comparison of Internet Addicts and Non-addicts in Taiwanese High Schools
Shu Ching Yang
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2520–2525
This study investigated the difference between Internet addicts and non-addicts in Taiwanese high schools, and focused specifically on their Internet usage patterns, and gratification and communication pleasures. The analytical results revealed that ...
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Using a Web Site to Increase Student Motivation to Write and Enhance the Reading/Writing Relationship
Susan Nelson; Harrison Yang
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) p. 1826
This action research project is an example of how Internet technology is being used in an elementary classroom as a means to increase student achievement. The project explores the relationship between writing and reading and its affects on early...
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Digital, Hybrid, and Multilingual Literacies in Early Childhood
Aria Razfar; Eunah Yang
Language Arts Vol. 88, No. 2 (November 2010) pp. 114–124
This article examines sociocultural research on early literacy development in the digital age. The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of informational technology that has fundamentally shifted how we think about language and literacy in the...
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Use Multimedia to Facilitate Schema Induced Analogical Reasoning in Science Learning
Robert Zheng; Wei Yang
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4839–4845
Researchers and educators have been exploring methods to improve science learning. One of the heavily researched areas is to teach with analogy. Recently teaching science using schema induced analogy has drawn attention from educators and...
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Language Learning on the World Wide Web: An Investigation of EFL Learners' Attitudes and Perceptions
Shu Ching Yang
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 24, No. 2 (2001) pp. 155–81
Describes the integration of Web resources as instructional and learning tools in an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) class in Taiwan. Highlights include challenges and advantages of using the Web; learners' perceptions; intentional and...
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Teaching Academic Courses Online: An Assessment of San Diego Miramar College Students
Ju Yin Yang
International Symposium and Book Fair on English Teaching 2007 (Apr 11, 2008)
This paper addresses the assessment of an online academic course delivered through WebCT at San Diego Miramar College in Southern California. The native and non-native college students who took this course experienced online academic instruction for ...
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Exploring College Students' Attitudes and Self-Efficacy of Mobile Learning
Shih-hsien Yang
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 11, No. 4 (October 2012) pp. 148–154
Previous studies have indicated that computers and the internet play very important roles in students' acceptance and use of new information technology. In recent years, with the rapid development of mobile technology, mobile learning (m-learning)...
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Critical Assessment of Video Production in Teacher Education: Can Video Production Foster Community-Engaged Scholarship?
Kyung-Hwa Yang
McGill Journal of Education Vol. 49, No. 3 (2014) pp. 661–673
In the theoretical framework of production pedagogy, I reflect on a video production project conducted in a teacher education program and discuss the potential of video production to foster community-engaged scholarship among pre-service teachers....
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Teacher-directed Student-use of Technology and Mathematics Achievement: Examining Trends in International Patterns
Yang Wang; Laura O'Dwyer
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 30, No. 1 (January 2011) pp. 79–135
Using data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003 and 2007 administrations, this study examines international trends in technology use and explores the international patterns in how teacher-directed, student-use...
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Teaching Some Informatics Concepts Using Formal System
Sojung Yang; Seongbin Park
Informatics in Education Vol. 13, No. 2 (2014) pp. 323–332
There are many important issues in informatics and many agree that algorithms and programming are most important issues that need to be included in informatics education (Dagiene and Jevsikova, 2012). In this paper, we propose how some of these...
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Investigating pre-service and in-service teachers' views of the effectiveness of the IT modules in their teacher education programmes
Chi Cheung Ruby Yang
Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 965–969
The present paper aims to find out the views of 26 pre-service and 8 in-service teachers about the IT modules in their teacher education programmes. The instruments used to collect their views in this study included questionnaires and semi...
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Investigating the Information Technology Courses for Pre-Service and In-Service English Teachers in Hong Kong (Investigación de los cursos de tecnología de la información para profesores de inglés de pregrado y en ejercicio en Hong Kong)
Chi Cheung Ruby Yang
PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development Vol. 13, No. 2 (October 2011) pp. 43–57
This paper focuses on the views of twenty-six pre-service and eight in-service English teachers in Hong Kong concerning the information technology courses in their teacher education programmes. The findings of the study show that while both software ...
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A Reflection on a Participatory Video Project: Possibilities and Challenges for Promoting Participatory Cultures among Adult Learners
Kyung-hwa Yang
Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education Vol. 45, No. 5 (December 2013) pp. 671–683
The recent media environment offers a great opportunity for people to create and share messages through ubiquitous connections. In doing so, they may be participating in shaping their cultures. This potential, however, is crippled for some because...
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Twenty Years of Telecollaborative Practice: Implications for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Han Luo; Chunsheng Yang
Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 31, No. 5 (2018) pp. 546–571
In an attempt to promote telecollaborative exchanges in the field of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, this paper conducts a comprehensive review of telecollaborative practice from the past twenty years and focuses on five important themes...
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The Role of Achievement Goals in Online Test Anxiety and Help-Seeking
Yan Yang; Jeff Taylor
Educational Research and Evaluation Vol. 19, No. 8 (2013) pp. 651–664
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of achievement goals in online test anxiety and help-seeking while controlling for self-efficacy and potential demographic differences. A total of 150 online students participated in the survey....
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New Language Knowledge Construction through Indirect Feedback in Web-Based Collaborative Writing
Yu-Fen Yang
Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 31, No. 4 (2018) pp. 459–480
This study reports on how students construct new language knowledge by indirect feedback in web-based collaborative writing. Indirect feedback (text organization, reader-based perspectives, and clarity of purpose) encourages students to negotiate...
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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 ...
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Developing a reciprocal teaching/learning system for college remedial reading instruction
Yu-Fen Yang
Computers & Education Vol. 55, No. 3 (November 2010) pp. 1193–1201
In face-to-face instruction of "Reciprocal Teaching (RT)", students’ reading processes and dialogues with their peers are hardly observed. As a result, the teacher has few clues to identify students’ learning difficulties and provide further...
Language: English
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A study of students’ attitudes towards using ICT in a social constructivist environment
Yang Silin; David Kwok
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 33, No. 5 (Oct 31, 2017)
This study aims to examine the factors that support or hinder students\u2019 attitudes towards using information and communication technology (ICT) in problem-based learning (PBL) using the technology acceptance model (TAM) (Davis, 1989) among...
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Construction of Distance Education Classroom in Architecture Specialty Based on Internet of Things Technology
Yuqiao YANG; Kanhua YU
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 11, No. 5 (May 23, 2016) pp. 56–61
Internet of Things technology and industrial development will trigger a new round of information technology revolution and industrial revolution, and they are the commanding point of future competition in information industry and core driving force...
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Effects of Attention Cueing on Learning Speech Organ Operation through Mobile Phones
Hui-Yu Yang
Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 20, No. 4 (2017) pp. 112–125
The studies regarding using a cross sectional view of speech organs enriched with attention cueing and written text to probe learners' learning efficiency and behavior through mobile phones is scant. The purpose of this study was to examine whether...