The Impact of Technology on Language Strategy Development

Ewa Wasniewski; Patricia Boechler

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 2491–2496

This preliminary study examines the influence of teaching an assistive technology to English as Second Language adult students in a small group. Vocabulary Learning Strategies, as proposed by Oxford (1990) are, “specific actions taken by the learner ...

The Use and Benefits of Assistive Technologies as a Vocabulary Strategy for English as a Second Language Adult Students

Ewa Wasniewski; Patricia Boechler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 2118–2122

Abstract: This experiment uses the quasi experimental time interval research design to investigate the experiences of ESL adult students learning vocabulary development specific to the International Practical Nurse Diploma program, at a college in...

Incidental Learning in 3D Virtual Environments: Relationships to Learning Style, Digital Literacy and Information Display

Wayne Thomas; Patricia Boechler

International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments Vol. 5, No. 4 (October 2014) pp. 29–44

With teachers taking more interest in utilizing 3D virtual environments for educational purposes, research is needed to understand how learners perceive and process information within virtual environments (). In this study, the authors sought to...

The effects of visual cues and spatial skill on incidental learning in a hypermedia information search task

Patricia Boechler; Chris Shaddock

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4317–4321

This study explores the impact of different external and internal factors on incidental learning in a hypermedia search task. Students were asked to search out the answers to specific questions within a hypermedia document but were not instructed to ...

Topics: Instructional Materials, Learning Outcomes, Students, Multimedia

Mobile Learning: Investigating Unique Strategy Use

Ewa Wasniewski; Patricia Boechler

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 225–229

This paper presents preliminary findings of an explorative study that investigates the use of mobile strategies used by undergraduate students. Participants at a midsize undergraduate university in western Canada were asked to self-report on the...

Topics: Mobile and ubiquitous learning, Digital divide issues, initiatives, and cases, Mobile teaching and learning technologies

Identifying Student Profiles to Investigate Behavior during an Avatar-Based Learning Task in a Virtual Environment

Heather May Gautreau; Patricia Boechler

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 1553–1561

Virtual environments are used recreationally by students and hold potential as learning platforms, but little is known about the types of students who learn best within these environments. Post-secondary students were observed during an information...

Topics: Virtual reality learning environments

An Introduction to Custom WebBrowsers for the Qualitative Study of Hypertext Navigation

Patricia M. Boechler; Michael R.W. Dawson; Kelvin R. Boechler

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 11, No. 3 (2002) pp. 221–235

For the benefit of researchers new to custom programming, this article presents a discussion of the advantages of custom applications and an example of such a program with a description and explanation of some of the programming code used to create...

Topics: Programming, Professional Development, Navigation

Recreational vs. Educational Computer Experience: Predicting Explicit and Implicit Learning Outcomes During a Website Search

Patricia Boechler; Lindsey Leenaars; Ilya Levner

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2499–2501

Webquests and web searches are becoming popular teaching tools. During such tasks, students are exposed to a substantive amount of information, some of it relevant to a specific learning objective, some of it peripheral to that objective. Material...

Effects of Navigation Tool Information on Hypertext Navigation Behavior: A Configural Analysis of Page-Transition Data

Patricia M. Boechler; Michael R. W. Dawson

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 11, No. 2 (2002) pp. 95–115

The effects of navigation tools in hypertext have been studied predominantly through performance measures such as speed, accuracy, number of pages accessed and recall of document elements. In contrast, the current study uses multidimensional scaling ...

Topics: Navigation

Relationships between Digital Literacy and Print Literacy: Predictors of Successful On-line Search

Patricia Boechler; Karon Dragon; Ewa Wasniewski

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1755–1758

This study examines the influence of digital literacy vs. print literacy skills on the implementation of a web-based information search. One hundred and one education students were tested on three measures of digital literacy (general exposure,...

The effects of navigation tools on student performance and recall in a hypermedia information search task

Patricia M. Boechler; Michael R.W. Dawson

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 1534–1535

Measures of performance were collected from a sample of 169 students during an information search task through a hypermedia document. Comparisons were made between four groups given navigation tools that contained different spatial cues for...

Topics: Navigation

The Influence of Reading and Memory Skills on Older Adults’ Information Search and Learning in Educational Hypermedia

Patricia Boechler; Dennis Foth; Rebecca Watchorn

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 1855–1860

Increasingly, older adults are using computers more frequently and for a wider variety of purposes. For example, older adults have shown an increased interest in continuing education (Mannheimer, 1995) which is delivered via technology more often...

Topics: Adults, Educational Technology, Computers, Information Communication Technologies

Pre-Service Teachers Designing and Constructing "Good Digital Games"

Corbett Artym; Mike Carbonaro; Patricia Boechler

Australian Educational Computing Vol. 31, No. 1 (2016)

There is a growing interest in the application of digital games to enhance learning across many educational levels. This paper investigates pre-service teachers' ability to operationalize the learning principles that are considered part of a good...

Incidental Learning and Salience in Virtual Worlds

Wayne Thomas; Patricia Boechler; Erik deJong; Eleni Stroulia; Matthew Delaney

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 1686–1690

Abstract: The issue of how students learn in virtual worlds is one that needs to be explored. This study seeks to determine whether or not students can learn incidentally within virtual worlds and whether or not they are better at incidentally...

Video Game Violence and Interactivity: Good News for the Classroom

Patricia Boechler; Martin Mrazik; Rebecca Watchorn; Rebecca Georgiou; Karon Dragon

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 2307–2312

This project investigated the relationships between game elements present during short-term game play and cognitive reasoning outcomes. After students completed pretest measures of cognitive reasoning, aggressiveness and computer experiences, they...

Video Games for Teaching and Learning: Game-building as a Teaching Tool

Patricia Boechler; Michael Carbonaro; Erik deJong; Eleni Stroulia; Lucio Gutiérrez

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 2054–2061

This presentation describes and showcases an undergraduate course that was designed to teach pre-service teachers to use game-building software in the classroom. The course advocates a constructionist approach to guide pre-service teachers in their...

Using Virtual Environments for an Interprofessional Communications Skills Instructional Program for Health Science Education

Patricia Boechler; Sharla King; Eleni Stroulia; Mike Carbonaro; Heather Kanuka

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 4091–4096

For health science students, developing appropriate communication skills is important for success in the transition from educational settings to clinical settings. This paper is a description of a new project directed at the development of a virtual ...

Student Satisfaction and Critical Thinking in 2D vs. 3D On-line Postsecondary Music Curriculum

Mary Ingraham; Patricia Boechler; Luis Marin; Erik deJong

Global Learn 2016 (Apr 28, 2016) pp. 323–332

This paper is a report on the results of an investigation of student satisfaction and critical thinking in an avatar-based, 3D virtual environment music assignment. Students were asked to complete a series of discussion activities with small groups...

Topics: Virtual reality learning environments

Incidental Learning in Hypemedia Environments: The Impact of Individual Differences and Spatial Overviews

Patricia Boechler; Dorothy Steffler; Michael Dawson; Jamal Mansour

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3789–3794

Educational activities often require students to conduct hypermedia information tasks. The intent of these tasks is generally to find information pursuant to a learning objective. However, the task itself could be viewed as a learning opportunity...

Topics: Multimedia, Learning Objects, Students

Towards a Psychological Model for Learning in Avatar-based Virtual Environments: How Important is Spatial Processing?

Patricia Boechler; Heather Gautreau; Erik deJong; Peter Sterling

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 2075–2083

In this project, we investigated the relationships between the spatial arrangement of a 3D, avatar-based environment (linear, random and clustered), student individual differences and learning outcomes. After students completed pretest measures of...

Topics: online learning environments, Personalized learning environments

Digital Opportunities within the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program: A Study of Preservice Teachers' Attitudes and Proficiency in Technology Integration

Karon Dragon; Kim Peacock; Yvonne Norton; Evelyn Steinhauer; Fern Snart; Mike Carbonaro; Patricia Boechler

Alberta Journal of Educational Research Vol. 58, No. 2 (2012) pp. 263–285

This article explores changes that occurred in preservice teachers' thinking about the use of educational technology in a post-secondary, Aboriginal, elementary teacher education program. The research explores relationships associated with changes...

Managing virtual world sessions for health science interprofessional education

Patricia Boechler; Sharla King; Eleni Stroulia; Michael Carbonaro; Erik deJong; Ewa Wasniewski; David Chodos

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 610–615

To address the need for interprofessional communications training for health science students, we developed and tested a virtual world (Second Life) for the delivery of a mock patient interview session. Health science students enrolled in an...

Virtual Campus Orientation: Supporting Students’ Transition to Post-Secondary Before They Actually Arrive

Patricia Boechler; Eleni Stroulia; Erik deJong; Matthew Delaney; Mike Carbonaro; Corbett Artym; Wayne Thomas; Jeff Klassen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 246–249

Transitioning to postsecondary education from secondary school is an important and critical adjustment for young adults (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). Our research project is designed to leverage the use of virtual environments to support new...

Synchronous Problem-Based e-Learning (ePBL) in Interprofessional Health Science Education

Sharla King; Elaine Greidanus; Mike Carbonaro; Jane Drummond; Patricia Boechler; Renate Kahlke

Journal of Interactive Online Learning Vol. 9, No. 2 (2010) pp. 133–150

Health Science teams are increasingly interprofessional and infused with technology. These shifts result in a need for health science students to learn online interprofessional teamwork skills early in their training. In response, one...