Exploring students’ learning experience in an international online research seminar in the Synchronous Cyber Classroom |
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Authors: | Daniel Chia-En Teng Kinshuk |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, No. 70, Lien-Hai Rd., Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan b School of Computing and Information System, Athabasca University, Canada c Department of Automatic Control, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy |
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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. |
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Keywords: | Computer-mediated communication Cross-cultural projects Distance education and telelearning Evaluation methodologies Post-secondary education |
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