Education technology - higher education
M. Jafarigohar; M. Karami
Abstract
All over the world, many IELTS candidates still experience difficulty in mastering skills needed for academic writing. Collaborative writing in a wiki might be a good way to address this difficulty. Thus, the current study has investigated and compared the effectiveness of the single-author peer-editing ...
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All over the world, many IELTS candidates still experience difficulty in mastering skills needed for academic writing. Collaborative writing in a wiki might be a good way to address this difficulty. Thus, the current study has investigated and compared the effectiveness of the single-author peer-editing strategy and the multiple-author co-authoring strategy in wiki. The participants were 20 male graduate and postgraduate students who had enrolled in an IELTS academic module preparation class. The study had an equivalent time series design in which the intervention period had six times: At odd times of intervention peer-editing was the strategy and at even times it was co-authoring. When peer-editing was the chosen intervention strategy for wiki writing, each participant created their own IELTS academic writing essay and at the same time edited the essays of their peers. For co-authoring tasks, all participants were required to co-write a coherent essay. A one-way repeated measures ANOVA was applied to compare the time series in terms of the effectiveness of interventions. The results revealed that the wiki group achieved greater improvement in their writing performance while co-authoring their essays. It should be remarked that the present study is one the first studies on identifying the most effective collaborative writing strategies in social networking systems, while most of the previous studies have addressed a comparison between collaborative writing instruments. The findings of this study might be a very crucial step toward the candidates’ success in international foreign language tests.
Education technology -training course
T. Yaghoobi; M. Abooei Ardakan; F. Gouyandeh Najaf Abadi
Abstract
Nowadays students, as digital natives, are attending social networks, social sites, blogging and doing other activities of Web 2.0, while it seems teachers, as digital immigrants, are less likely to use this technology than students. Given the apparent gap between digital natives and immigrants, and ...
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Nowadays students, as digital natives, are attending social networks, social sites, blogging and doing other activities of Web 2.0, while it seems teachers, as digital immigrants, are less likely to use this technology than students. Given the apparent gap between digital natives and immigrants, and the undeniable benefits of using these tools to teach or assist teaching that leads to collaboration, knowledge sharing and knowledge and data transfer, it is necessary to detect factors affecting the acceptance and usage of this technology by teachers, and then policy making in the field of education to be done properly by the authorities, based on these factors. Thus, this research has used the technology acceptance theory 3, which was introduced in 2008 in connection with the information technology to address these factors. This has been carried out through a descriptive study, and the data has been collected by a questionnaire on the sample of 340 high school teachers in Isfahan. Analysis of hypothesis has been done by structural equation modeling and path analysis methods using LISREL software. The results of this research showed convenient and perceived ease of use, has the most influence on the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies by teachers. Peer support, organizational support and computer self-efficacy positively and computer anxiety negatively are factors that affect ease of use.
