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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"ONLINE COLLABORATION"”.
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Understanding How Novice Teachers Utilize Online Collaboration
… TITLE: UNDERSTANDING HOW NOVICE TEACHERS UTILIZE ONLINE COLLABORATION MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Joyce Killian This investigation focused on the different forms of online collaboration used by current novice teachers in rural districts in Illinois. Two main research questions guided this study: 1) How …
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Sociapedia : online collaboration over a social network
This paper introduces Sociapedia, a collaborative social network application that encourages friends to contribute content about each other. Sociapedia is designed upon the same principles that allowed ordinary web users to construct the comprehensive encyclopedia Wikipedia, and is built on top of …
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The influence of an online collaboration tool on relationships in inter-organisational networks
… exploring the use and influence of an online collaboration tool (OCT). An OCT is the web-based information infrastructure used for coordinating project activities, and the major market segment for OCTs is the construction sector. Following a literature review, a conceptual framework was …
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Crowdsourcing Feedback and Augmenting 3D Visualizations: Online Collaboration Tools for Gamified Participatory Design Workshops
… Feedback and Augmenting 3D Visualizations: Online Collaboration Tools for Gamified Participatory Design Workshops is an investigation into how digital tools can be designed to facilitate and enhance the participatory process. The participatory process this thesis focuses on is the Block by …
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An online collaboration framework for small and medium sized enterprises in the United Kingdom construction sector
… A large part of their business depends on collaboration and partnering with otherbusinesses. Online technologies are the latest trend to achieve innovative collaboration. Such technologies could improve the collaboration methods within construction SMEs and make them more competitive in the …
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The impact of an online collaboration tool on first-year community college students’ learning of expository writing
… reading-writing connection and the effects of online collaboration through the use of OneNote on improving the expository writing performance of first-year community college students. The intervention was a 10-week integrated reading and writing instructional program focused on systematically …
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Group Collaboration in Global Online Learning Environments
This case study seeks to better understand online collaboration in a global secondary school classroom context. Given the widespread promotion of collaborative learning as a crucial skill, coupled with a significant increase in online learning, this study aims to grow research evidence and offer …
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Narratives of online collaborative experiences: Leaders and lurkers
… reasons why people engage in varying levels of online collaboration in a self selected group. The research investigated (I) the role of online interaction platforms, (2) participants' perceived constraints on, and enablers of online collaboration in order to answer the main research question on …
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The Effects of Teacher Professional Development and Self-Efficacy on Classroom Uses of Information and Computer Technologies
… types of professional development activities (online collaboration, face to face collaboration and course-based) and classroom technology use; and finally (iii) the mediator role of self-efficacy between professional development and classroom technology use.</p> <p>The findings demonstrate that …
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Interactive cinema : collaborative expression with digital video
… This thesis research presents Individeo, an online application with for video browsing and editing, and explores how interface design can enable closer collaboration among online videographers. The thesis evaluates Individeo's custom interfaces through Honeymoon, an experimental collaborative …
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Creating Faculty Guidelines for Collaborative Online International Learning: Design and Development
… innovative teaching method called Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). COIL connects students from different countries through online collaboration, promoting intercultural learning and global understanding. While there is plenty of research about using COIL for learning new …
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Development of an online collaborative working environment for design and manufacturing
… for computer aid design, which acts as an online collaboration system, has been developed with the utilisation of the latest technology, Web Service. The concept of Service-Oriented Architecture has been implemented in the framework. Users from anywhere in the world can join the design …
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Online discourse in a primary school setting
… learning environment. Although the use of online learning is now common place within many higher education establishments, the uptake of such technology within schools is arguably poor, more so in the primary sector. Much research has been done in relation to the effects of online …
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The effectiveness of virtual facilitation in supporting GDSS appropriation and structured group decision making
… to their growing use for “web conferencing,” online collaboration, and distributed group decision-making. Indeed, it is only recently that such groupware applications for conducting face-to-face, as well as “virtual meetings” among dispersed workgroups have achieved mainstream status, as …
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Avatar augmented online conversation
… channel. A derived application, MapChat, is an online collaboration system where users represented by avatars in a shared virtual environment can chat and manipulate an interactive map while their avatars generate face-to-face behaviors.
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Developing online teacher communities to support communication and collaboration
… set out to investigate Glow's use. The initial online survey of teachers' perceptions of Glow, in 2009, indicated that respondents were making little use of Glow. This led to a refocusing ofthe research to investigate a group of teachers who had a history of communicating online, with a view to …
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Collective causality : building solution architectures with a crowd
… the group dynamics in both offline and online collaboration, and determine those factors that are material to the success of an online collaborative causal map. Such factors include how the question is framed, how users attend to others' contributions, or how users' contributions can be …
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Developing a Faculty-Librarian Community of Inquiry: A Blended Learning Approach to Facilitate Information Literacy Education
… sessions with accompanying asynchronous online discussions. The FacLibCoI workshop was implemented and analyzed in phase three. The design changed to four in-person sessions and two asynchronous discussions. Data included before-and-after participant interviews, transcripts, CoI …
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Mixed-Initiative Methods for Following Design Guidelines in Creative Tasks
… layout tasks. To support the network-based collaboration required for crowdsourcing, I first implemented a system called GraphSpace. It fosters online collaboration by allowing users to store, organize, explore, lay out, and share networks on a web platform. I then used GraphSpace as the …
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Critical Investigation of Virtual Universities: Applying the UK Structure to Saudi Arabia
… and Oxford University) were also researched online, providing an additional edge to the wider research on other universities. The investigation was motivated by a desire to produce a model that would widen learning opportunities for those who otherwise have no access to formal education in …
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