Abstract

The development of computer-mediated communication enables teaching and learning to take place across geographical boundaries. An online synchronous learning environment with cyber face-to-face features affords students the sense of learning together online. This study reports a novel design of organizing a 16-week seminar for doctoral students across Canada, Italy, New Zealand, and Taiwan in the Synchronous Cyber Classroom, an online synchronous learning environment. Students’ learning experiences were explored from the perspective of students’ interactions with students, instructors, and the content, based on which the perception of being in a learning community was formed. This article reports how this international online research seminar was organized, how students’ learning experience was analyzed, and what we learned about students’ learning in this international online research seminar.

Citation

Teng, D.C.E., Chen, N.S., , K. & Leo, T. (2012). Exploring students’ learning experience in an international online research seminar in the Synchronous Cyber Classroom. Computers & Education, 58(3), 918-930. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved December 8, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/66823/.

Keywords

• blended learning
• College Instruction
• computer mediated communication
• distance education
• Doctoral Programs
• EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
• electronic learning
• Foreign Countries
• Instructional Effectiveness
• International Education
• Learning Experience
• Learning Processes
• research
• Seminars
• student attitudes
• Synchronous Communication
• Virtual Classrooms
• Web Based Instruction