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Using The Community Of Inquiry Framework To Analyze Emojis As An Emerging Language In An Online Educational Experience Via Whatsapp, Jennifer L. Reeves, Glenda A. Gunter, Junia Braga, Marcos Racilan
Using The Community Of Inquiry Framework To Analyze Emojis As An Emerging Language In An Online Educational Experience Via Whatsapp, Jennifer L. Reeves, Glenda A. Gunter, Junia Braga, Marcos Racilan
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With the ever-growing interest in WhatsApp as a social space to accommodate pedagogical initiatives, the role of emojis as an emergent Internet language in this social space needs to be better understood as mobile technologies have been integrated in education. With that in mind, this paper reports a study that employed an embedded correlational mixed methods design, and aimed to identify: the emojis used to support cognitive, teaching, and social presences in a teacher education course via WhatsApp; participants’ attitudes regarding the use of emojis, and their age and gender relation to this use. The data generated from the interactions …
And Finally... Systems And Instructional Design, Michael Simonson
And Finally... Systems And Instructional Design, Michael Simonson
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A system is a set of interrelated parts, all working together toward a defined goal. The parts of the system depend on each other for input and output. The entire system uses feedback to determine if its desired goal has been reached. If not, then the system is modified until it reaches its goal (Dick et al., 2015).