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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"collaborative technology"”.
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Designing Inclusivity in Collaborative Technology
Are Collaborative Tools Effective for Low-Status Workers? My thesis aims to provide answers to this question. Prior research in social science and organizational science argues that collaborative tools should be effective since technology reflects the social values of its users, and users will …
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The interplay of collaborative technology with learner characteristics: Conceptual and empirical examinations
… in the IT world have resulted in a new wave of collaborative technology (CT) that includes wiki-based software such as PBWorks and Mediawiki. These CTs are becoming widely available, often at no cost, resulting in massive adoption by the IT-savvy, the trend-conscious, and the average IT-literate …
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Computer Supported Collaboration: Is the Transfer of Cognitive Structures Mediated by Mode of Communication?
… activity and determine whether mode of collaborative technology or use of a priming agent affected the nature of transferred structures. Evidence for structural transfer is found in three theoretical perspectives: organizational ditransitive (linguistic) verb structures, adaptive …
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Student Experiences, Attitudes, and Perceptions Toward Online Collaborative Tools: A Case Study
… with literacy deficiencies as they used collaborative technology tools in an online after-school tutoring program that focused on reading and writing skills. Leveraging the sociocultural theory of reading (Freebod & Luke, 1990), participants worked collaboratively to strengthen skills …
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What motivates middle school students to become better writers?
… Common Core curriculum was used along with collaborative, technology-based and independent writing tasks in which students learned how to identify their writing motivations in a variety of writing tasks. Qualitative inquiry strategies such as student surveys, student written work and …
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Towards computer supported cooperative design
… Cooperative Work, the state-of-the-art in collaborative technology does not fully support such activities. Two substantial case studies are presented. The first draws upon fieldwork with designers at a large, distributed engineering design company, where a pilot study of collaborative …
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The Value of Voices: Exploring the Influence of a Virtual Learning Community for New Teachers Through a Value Creation Lens
… communities? (2) How does participating in a collaborative synchronous online network support new teachers in developing literacy PCK, self-efficacy, and professional relationships? (3) What challenges do teachers raise in their discussions during community meetings, and how do they relate to …
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Building technological capability within satellite programs in developing countries
… in space activity is growing as satellite technology matures and spreads. Countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are creating or reinvigorating national satellite programs. These countries are building local capability in space through technological learning. They sometimes pursue this …
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The Early Stages of Collaborative Commercialisation of Science: What Enables and Constrains the Development of Generic Technologies
… do particular developments of the same generic technology come to predominate during the early stages of commercialisation of science, and can such dominance be broken? The study contributes to three bodies of literature: the commercialisation of science, generic technologies, and path …