The Internet As a Medium for Online Instruction

Inventing online journalism Development of the Internet as a news medium in four Catalan online newsrooms

Online journalism has developed in several directions and rhythms, taking different shapes in different online news projects. Scholars have offered empirical evidence that these directions are, in many occasions, far from the utopias envisioned in the 90s. We are still inventing online journalism. A comparative research focused on four case studies of Catalan online newsrooms traces the materia...

Exploring the Internet as a medium for research: web-based questionnaires and online sychronous interviews

Introduction It is widely acknowledged that information and communication technologies (ICT) open up new possibilities for research in terms of both adapting existing methodologies to a new medium and in creating new methodological possibilities. Several specialist textbooks on online research have recently been published to help researchers explore these new methodological possibilities Numero...

The Internet as a Mass Communication Medium

Using the Internet for Instruction

The Internet presents many opportunities to involve students more actively in their learning and expand communication between students and between faculty and their students. This section presents ideas for using the Internet to enhance teaching and learning. Several links offer general strategies, while later sites present information on such specific approaches as using WebQuests, wikis, and ...

the effectiveness of strategy-based instruction in teaching english as a second or foreign language: a meta-analysis of experimental studies

a large number of single research studies on the effects of strategy-based instruction (sbi) in teaching english as a foreign or second language has been conducted so far. however, the lack of a comprehensive meta-analysis targeting the effectiveness of english language sbi is observed. moreover, the findings of experimental studies regarding the context of the english language, proficiency lev...