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Effects of tagcloud-anchored group discussions on pre-service teachers\u2019 collaborative knowledge construction
Shu-Yuan Lin; Ying Xie
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun 09, 2017)
Group discussions are critical for students constructing new understanding and knowledge in both classroom and distance education. Tagclouds can provide an intuitive overview about the group\u2019s collective knowledge and could potentially be used...
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Game-based learning engagement: A theory- and data-driven exploration
Fengfeng Ke; Kui Xie; Ying Xie
British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 47, No. 6 (November 2016) pp. 1183–1201
The promise of using games for learning is that play- and learning-engagement would occur cohesively as a whole to compose a highly motivated learning experience. Yet the conceptualization of such an integrative process in the development of play...
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Tagclouds and group cognition: Effect of tagging support on students' reflective learning in team blogs
Ying Xie; Shu‐Yuan Lin
British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 47, No. 6 (November 2016) pp. 1135–1150
We investigated the effects of supported tagging (a prompting mechanism for students to stop and think about their writing) for team blogging on undergraduate students' reflective learning and the relationship between tagclouds and group cognition....
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Examining Students' Reflective Thinking from Keywords Tagged to Blogs: Using Map Analysis as a Content Analysis Method
Ying Xie; Priya Sharma
Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 21, No. 6 (2013) pp. 548–576
Reflective learning refers to a learner's purposeful and conscious manipulation of ideas toward meaningful learning. Blogs have been used to support reflective thinking, but the commonly seen blog software usually does not provide overt...
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Exploring Evidence of Reflective Thinking in Student Artifacts of Blogging-Mapping Tool: A Design-Based Research Approach
Ying Xie; Priya Sharma
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 39, No. 5 (September 2011) pp. 695–719
Reflective learning can assist a learner's purposeful and conscious manipulation of ideas toward meaningful learning and knowledge integration. Blogs have been used to support reflection, but Blogs usually do not provide overt mechanisms for...
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The Effects of Peer-Interaction Styles in Team Blogs on Students' Cognitive Thinking and Blog Participation
Ying Xie; Fengfeng Ke; Priya Sharma
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 42, No. 4 (2010) pp. 459–479
Deep cognitive thinking refers to a learner's purposeful and conscious manipulation of ideas toward meaningful learning. Strategies such as journaling/blogging and peer feedback have been found to promote deep thinking. This article reports a...
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Student Experiences of Using Weblogs: An Exploratory Study
Priya Sharma; Ying Xie
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 12, No. 3 (December 2008) pp. 137–156
Recently, attempts have been made to use Weblogs and other personal webpublishing technologies to support individual and social reflection in higher education. Weblogs can be highly individual and reflective in nature, and students' experiences and...
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Document analyses of student use of a blogging-mapping tool to explore evidence of deep and reflective learning
Ying Xie
(2008) pp. 1–282
Theories about reflective thinking and deep-surface learning abound. In order to arrive at the definition for “reflective thinking toward deep learning,” this study establishes that reflective thinking toward deep learning refers to a learner’s...
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The effect of peer feedback for blogging on college students' reflective learning processes
Ying Xie; Fengfeng Ke; Priya Sharma
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 11, No. 1 (2008) pp. 18–25
Reflection is an important prerequisite to making meaning of new information, and to advance from surface to deep learning. Strategies such as journal writing and peer feedback have been found to promote reflection as well as deep thinking and...
Language: English
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Students' Lived Experience Of Using Weblogs In a Class: An Exploratory Study
Ying Xie; Priya Sharma
Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2004 (October 2005)
Recently, attempts have been made to use Weblog and other personal webpublishing technologies to support individual and social reflection in higher education. Due to Weblog's highly individual and reflective nature, students' experiences and...
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Learning Chinese Idioms through iPads
Chunsheng Yang; Ying Xie
Language Learning & Technology Vol. 17, No. 2 pp. 12–22
This paper reports on an action research study using iPads during the teaching of Chinese idioms to heritage learners. A class of 12 second-year Chinese learners were engaged in a self-generated learning process focused on learning abstract and...