IS Faculty Member Dr. Darabi in the News

A performance-based training system developed at LSI with an IS faculty as the Principal Investigator (Aubteen Darabi) and contributions from over 50 of our IS students over the past 5 years as interns or graduate assistants. To read the article, click here.

AECT Conference 2010

This week is the AECT conference! The AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology) conference is always a huge event for FSU-IS faculty and staff. Not only do the faculty members get to share research with others, but it is a wonderful opportunity for networking. This year’s conference was in Anaheim, California. A list of presentations by students and faculty members is below. Visit aect.org for more information including presentation abstracts.

Factorial Model for Measurement of Mental Effort 

Presentation by Li Jin, Aubteen Darabi, Richard Wagner, Thomas Cornile

Online Discussion Strategies for Higher Level Learning

Presentation by Aubteen Darabi, Meagan C. Arrastia, David Nelson, Xinya Liang

Examining Repair Sequences and Technical Difficulties in an Online Synchronous Course

Presentation by Yvonne Earnshaw and Vanessa Dennen

Participation Norm Differences in Synchronous Online-Classes and FTF Classes and Implications for Instructional Design

Presentation by Li Jin and Vanessa Dennen

Studying Blogs as Self-Regulated Learning Platforms: The Development of a Coding System

Presentation by Jennifer Myers and Vanessa Dennen

Juggling the Backchannel: Speaker Reactions to and Interactions with Simultaneous Chat

Presentation by Vanessa Dennen

What is it and why should I do it? Twitter use in an undergraduate educational technology course

Presentation by Vanessa Dennen, Yoon Jeon Kim, and BiJen Hsieh

Blogfolio to transform preservice teachers’ beliefs and attitudes

Presentation by Yoon Jeon Kim, and BiJen Hsieh

Roles of the Chat in a WebEx section: “How is the chat going in a WebEx session?”

Presentation by Tami Im

The Effects of Emotional Support and Cognitive Motivational Messages on Students’ Math Anxiety, Self-efficacy, and Math Problem Solving (D&D)

Presentation by Tami Im

The effects of guided inquiry questions on students’ critical thinking skills and satisfaction in online argumentation

Presentation by Woon Jee Lee, Hae Young Kim, Kristanti Puspitasari, and Allan Jeong

The Relationship between Accuracy in Students’ Causal Diagrams,Total links, Temporal Flow, and Node Positions

Presentation by Woon Jee Lee and Allan Jeong

Exploring Behavioral Indicators of Learner Motivation in Online Argumentation

Presentation by Hae Yong Kim and Allan Jeong

Computer Modeling of Teams Learning: An Agent Based Social Simulation of Team Learning (SSTeL)

Presentation by Tristan Johnson, Selcuk Karaman (Ataturk University), and Rinat Rosenberg-Kima

Effects of Instructional Gaming Characteristics on Learning Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Engagement of Basic Statistical Analytical Skills

Presentation by Elena Novak and Tristan Johnson

Team Process Dynamics: Shared Mental Model Change Patterns in Learning Teams

Presentation by Tristan Johnson and Selcuk Karaman (Ataturk University)

The Effect of Social Annotation Tool on Higher Order Thinking Skills in a College Graduate Course (RTD)

Presentation by Tristan Johnson, Gershon Tennebaum, Selcuk Karaman (Ataturk University), Selen Razon, Yayon Brill

The Effectiveness of Simulation Environments in Technical Task Performance Training: A Meta-Analysis

Presentation by Elena Novak, Eric Sikorski, and Tristan Johnson

The trends and issues associated with learning object repositories and the implications for international learning organizations

Presentation by Tristan Johnson and Selcuk Karaman (Ataturk University)

Validation of Natural Language Representations and Concept Maps Using Reference Models

Presentation by Tristan Johnson, Selcuk Karaman (Ataturk University), Anne Mendenhall, Gershon Tennenbaum, Pablo Pirnay-Dummer (University of Freiburg), and Dirk Ifenthaler (University of Mannheim)

The International Center for Learning, Education and Performance Systems

Presentation by Tristan Johnson and J. Michael Spector (University of Georgia)

Deconstructing Teaching Presence in Multiple Online Courses to Design Successful Adult Learning

Presentation by Fengfeng Ke and Alicia Chavez (University of New Mexico)

Relationships among Perceived Learning Environment, Learning Strategies Adopted, and Learning Success of Online Adult Students: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Presentation by Fengfeng Ke, Dean Kwak (University of New Mexico), and Alicia Chavez (University of New Mexico)

The Evaluation of an Online Indonesia Language Course for Beginners

Presentation by Anne Mendenhall, Seung Won Park (University of Georgia), Thomas Luschei, and J. Michael Spector (University of Georgia)

Effects of Instructional Gaming Characteristics on Learning Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Engagement of Basic Statistical Analytical Skills

Presentation by Elena Novak and Tristan Johnson

Distributed Basic Education and the Open University of Indonesia

Presentation by Atwi Suparman (Open University of Indonesia), Tian Belawati (open University of Indonesia), Thomas Luschei, Dewi Padmo, and J. Michael Spector (University of Georgia)

Examining the Effect of Academic Incentive Use with Cooperative Learning Groups on Concept Acquisition and Attitudes

Presentation by Rim Razzouk

Use Anti-Plagiarism Tools to Educate, not to Intimidate: Effects of Anti-Plagiarism Tool Use in Higher Education (RTD)

Presentation by Jean-Marc Wise and Aaron Kim

E-Learn Conference 2010

Several students and one faculty member from the IS program attended the 2010 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education in Orlando, FL.Visit http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/ for more information.

Dr. Vanessa Dennen was an invited speaker and presented on lessons learned from a community of bloggers. The presentation title was Online Communities and Professional Development Narratives: What Can We Learn from Bloggers? Dr. Dennen's presentation was recorded and can be viewed here.

This presentation addresses what seemingly casual bloggers who write in a diaristic format – often dismissed as not serious or wasting time – can teach the rest of us about building an online community and engaging in professional development. Data and anecdotes from three ethnographic studies of diaristic blogging communities will be shared with a focus on explaining how these communities benefit their participants and what role narratives play in these benefits. Topics covered include community purpose and norms, informal learning, online-offline knowledge brokering, knowledge management, cognitive apprenticeship, and mentoring. Practical implications will be shared for those looking to create online professional development and/or knowledge sharing communities. 

Dr. Dennen also had two other presentations with students:

Podcast Pedagogy: Message Design, Motivation, and Learning by Vanessa Dennen and Jennifer Myers

Abstract:

In this study, we contrast two different message designs for equivalent content podcasts. Specifically, we test whether the message design has an effect on student perceptions of the narrator’s expertise, the student’s motivation, and learning outcomes. The first message design is based on the cognitive information processing model of learning and presents the content in an organized, outlined manner. The second message design is based on the cognitive apprenticeship model and makes use of a personal narrative. Findings show that students considered the omniscient narrator more expert than the one sharing a personal narrative, but felt more confident when listening to the personal narrative. There were no significant differences in learning outcomes.

Raise Your Hand If You Wanna Speak: Navigating Turn-taking in a Webex Course by Christie Suggs, Jennifer Myers, and Vanessa Dennen

Abstract:

With the increase in synchronous distance courses being offered and new rules for participation being developed in response to the new learning environments, we examined how turn-taking in the online, multi-modal, technology-mediated classroom took place. Understanding how effective turn-taking takes place in this environment can assist online instructors with course facilitation and reduce extraneous cognitive load. We found that the turn-taking rules discussed by Sacks et al (1974) were still relevant within the audio portion of the synchronous class. However, these rules were not apparent in the chat portion of the class.

Tatyana Pashnyak also presented at the conference. 

The Effects of Online Course Orientation Quiz on Student-Instructor Communication Practices by Tatyana Pashnyak

Abstract:

One of the main components of an effective online teaching is communicating course expectations to students (Graham et al., 2001; Ludwig-Hartman & Dunlap, 2003; Mupinga, Nora, & Yaw, 2006; Brinkerhoff & Koroghlanian, 2007; Haley & Heise, 2008). However, simply providing information does not guarantee that students will review course expectations. As a result, students often ask questions that are already provided in the course syllabus, thus overwhelming their instructors with unnecessary emails and phone calls. One promising method to ensure that students review the course syllabus is a required successful completion of orientation quiz, based on the course syllabus, prior to being allowed to access any course assignments. Five online community college courses, for a total of 120 students, were chosen for this pilot study. Based on preliminary findings, the number of unnecessary contacts has been reduced by approximately 80% while the number of other contacts remained the same.

10/5 Seminar: Curt Bonk

This is a reminder of our seminar on TUESDAY October 5.

Curt Bonk from Indiana University will be our speaker. His talk is titled The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (full abstract below). You can find out more about Curt at http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk .

This seminar will be at 2:30 in STB G152. It will be broadcast via the usual channels.

If you haven't heard Curt talk before, let me tell you that it's always a treat! He was one of my professors, on my dissertation committee, and has since been a valued mentor and collaborator. I hope to see you there!

Vanessa


The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education
Abstract: Building on Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, Curt Bonk offers an intriguing look at ten technology trends which he called educational openers. When combined, the first letter of each opener spells the acronym: "WE-ALL-LEARN." This model helps make sense of the role of various technologies in open education, including open courseware, open source software, open access journals, open educational resources, and open information communities. As part of this, he will discuss e-books, podcasts, streamed videos, online learning portals social networking tools like Facebook and Ning, YouTube videos, wikis, and virtual worlds. With such technologies, thousands of organizations and scholars are sharing their course materials, expertise, and teaching ideas globally, thereby expanding learning opportunities and resources even further. As this occurs, members of the media, politicians, educators, students, parents, and others are asking important questions about the quality of such contents. Bonk also addresses questions related to the digital divide and how those without Internet access still benefit immensely from these open learning tools and resources. The economic world of Friedman may be flatter, but the educational world is definitely more open than is was a decade or even a few years ago. Open up and enjoy it!