Topic
Collaborative learning research, explained
6 open-access collaborative learning studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Do educational chatbots raise project-course grades?
In a Malaysian team design course, students using an educational chatbot outperformed a traditional class on learning achievement, without clear gains on motivation or creative self-efficacy.
- Social media profiles in learning ecologies
Communications students at an online university formed distinct social-media learning profiles, including more academically guided versus more informal/digital resource users.
- Learning CoI by role-playing online discussions
Computer-science students practicing Community of Inquiry roles in asynchronous forums enacted all presence types, but struggled to reach resolution-level critical thinking.
- Which scaffolding helps online collaborative problem-solving?
In a small Chinese graduate course, idea-centered scaffolding best strengthened connections among ideas, metacognitive regulation, and knowledge-artifact work during CPS.
- Peer-created videos for hybrid learning
Engineering students in hybrid/online courses highly rated peer-created problem videos, with Student-Teachers reporting motivation gains and learners preferring peer content to traditional lectures.
- Evaluating Coaching-Based Mentor Training for STEM Students
A brief coaching-based training helped high school mentors improve their communication, regulate their emotions under stress, and feel more confident in their own STEM knowledge.