The Digital Media ZONE: A Model for Online Digital Media Instruction

Krista Galyen; Christiana Kumalasari; Kyungbin Kwon

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 1568–1573

"The Digital Media ZONE" is a supportive physical and virtual environment for students enrolled in digital media and web development courses taught online by faculty of the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of...

Simulation Followed by a Reflection and Feedback Session in Medical Education

Christiana Kumalasari; Julie Caplow; Nicole Fearing

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education Vol. 7, No. 2 (April 2011) pp. 46–56

This research study examines surgical residents’ perception of their learning after participation in a simulation followed by a reflection and feedback session. Eight first-year surgical residents participated in this study. A survey was...

Self-Explanation Prompts on Problem-Solving Performance in an Interactive Learning Environment

Kyungbin Kwon; Christiana D. Kumalasari; Jane L. Howland

Journal of Interactive Online Learning Vol. 10, No. 2 (2011) pp. 96–112

This study examined the effects of self-explanation prompts on problem-solving performance. In total, 47 students were recruited and trained to debug web-program code in an online learning environment. Students in an open self-explanation group were ...

Building a Model Explaining the Social Nature of Online Learning

I-Chun Tsai; Bosung Kim; Pei-Ju Liu; Sean P. Goggins; Christiana Kumalasari; James M. Laffey

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 11, No. 3 (2008) pp. 198–215

Based on a framework emphasizing the social nature of learning, this research examines a model of how social constructs affect satisfaction within online learning using path analysis for students in higher education. The social constructs evaluated...

Social Nature of Online Learning in Sakai

Social Computing Research Group; Xinxin Huang; Christiana Kumalasari; Piyanan Nuankhieo; Demei Shen; Bosung Kim; I-Chun Tsai; Pei-Ju Liu; Paul Turner; Chris Amelung; David Reid; James Laffey

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 613–620

This study explored the social nature of online learning in a computer management system (CMS). Based on Wenger's (1998) social theory of learning and an awareness framework for online collaborative learning proposed by Carroll et al, (2003), a four-...

Topics: Social Sciences, Information Sciences, Computer Sciences, Learning Management Systems, Social Studies