The considerable increase in web-based knowledge networks in the past two decades is
strongly influencing learning environments. Learning entails information retrieval, use …

Facilitating healthy online deliberation in terms of sensemaking and collaboration of
discussion participants proves extremely challenging due to a number of known negative …

Online learning environments offer new opportunities for learning and over the last decade
or so a variety of online learning environments have been developed by researchers to …

This chapter presents a description of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), their brief
history and some examples. Then the chapter focuses on online learning and how research …

Over the past two decades, the growth of the Internet and the development of newer
computermediated communication (CMC) technologies have multiplied opportunities for …

Estudo de mapeamento da navegação em conteúdos hipertextuais e ambiente virtual de
aprendizagem. O objetivo foi compreender como alunos de cursos a distância navegavam e …

This chapter introduces a case study to explore the pedagogical re-design of an online
module using online discussions as the focus for learning. A longitudinal and development …

Globalisation of higher education has led to an increase in the delivery of transnational
programmes, those where students are located in a different country than the providing …

This research study aimed to improve the levels of group knowledge construction by
providing intelligent-based facilitations to learner group interactions in a collaborative …

In this paper we analyse children's talk with a view to understand how a technology
enhanced inquiry learning toolkit played a part in enriching collaboration during a fieldtrip …