Web Annotation and Threaded Forum: How Did Learners Use the Two Environments in an Online Discussion?

Yanyan Sun; Fei Gao

Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice Vol. 13, No. 1 (2014) pp. 69–88

Exploring the roles of school leaders and teachers in a school‐wide adoption of flipped classroom: School dynamics and institutional cultures

Yanyan Sun; Fei Gao

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 50, No. 3 (May 2019) pp. 1241–1259

While the development of digital technologies provides generous resources for educational practices, how the use of information and communication technology (ICT) supports instructional reforms in schools still needs further exploration. The purpose ...

Comparing the use of a social annotation tool and a threaded discussion forum to support online discussions

Yanyan Sun; Fei Gao

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 32, No. 1 (January 2017) pp. 72–79

This study aimed to understand how a threaded forum and asocial annotation tool, Diigo, supported online discussions. Forty-five pre-service teachers in two sections of an undergraduate course participated in two online discussion activities. A...

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Using Wikis to Support Peer Assessment Activities in Higher Education

Yanyan Sun; Teresa Franklin; Tian Luo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3388–3392

This study explored the effectiveness of using wikis as an environment to support peer-assessment in higher education settings. The participants of this study were nineteen per-serviced teachers who enrolled in an undergraduate. In the study, the...

Shared Video Media: A New Environment to Support Peer Feedback in Second Language Learning

Yanyan Sun; Jia Yu; Fei Gao

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 1746–1751

The study explores how a shared video media, Voicethread, supports an online environment for peer feedback in second language speaking. Fifty eight undergraduate students who enrolled in an intermediate Chinese language course participate in the...

Learning outside of classroom: Exploring the active part of an informal online English learning community in China

Yanyan Sun; Teresa Franklin; Fei Gao

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 48, No. 1 (January 2017) pp. 57–70

This study explored how the GRE Analytical Writing Section Discussion Forum, an informal online language learning community in China, functioned to support its members to improve their English writing proficiency. The Community of Inquiry (CoI)...

Using Social Annotation Tools to Foster Collaborative Learning

Tian Luo; Fei Gao; Yanyan Sun

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3284–3287

Social annotation (SA) allows learners to highlight and comment on web pages and share annotations with each other online. Despite its potential in promoting collaborative learning, how to integrate it into educational settings has not been fully...

Changing Roles in a Mobile Flipped Pedagogical Model in Higher Education

Teresa Franklin; Yanyan Sun; Nick Yinger; Jeffrey Anderson; Eugene Geist

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3702–3707

This paper examines the implementation of HTC tablet devices, a flipped classroom model and the changing roles of the faculty instructor and leaners when using this device in an undergraduate business management course in a business college and a...

Reconsidering Instructional Design with Web 2.0 Technologies

Fei Gao; Kun Li; Tian Luo; Jamie Smith; Yanyan Sun; Ke Zhang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 2666–2668

Despite the enthusiasm of integrating Web 2.0 technologies into learning environment design, researchers found that few instructors know the pedagogies that could lead to productive innovation (Collis & Moonen, 2008). This symposium consists of one...