The impact of study load on the dynamics of longitudinal email communications among students

Thomas

et al. 2018

Purpose -Despite the growing body of literature demonstrating the role of communication in educational settings, there are limited up-to-date studies exploring the use of an Instant messaging (IM) tool and its impacts on students' learning outcomes, especially in the tertiary education in Vietnam. This study approached instant messaging as an out-of-class communication (OCC) approach in computer-mediated communication (CMC). The aim of this study was to investigate students' perceived quality of information received and its influence on their perceived performance proficiency as a result of their lecturers' clarification of their enquiries through an online instant message application, namely Remind (https://www.remind.com/). Design/methodology/approach -The target groups were first year Business students in an International University in Vietnam. The analysis of the data gathered from the questionnaire was carried out using a measurement model and a structural equation model. Findings -The findings indicate using out-of-class communication technology creates social bonding between students and lecturers by allowing students to clarify the ambiguity of concepts learnt in class and create a sense of connection with their lecturers which leads to better student engagement and hence improved learning outcomes. Originality/value -The author highlights the evidence of effective usage of IM tool by university students as a meaningful communication tool and the need to integrate technology into all educational settings.

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the impact of out-of-class communication through instant messaging

Thomas

et al. 2018

“…Only the learning network based on the project work website yielded a positive and significant transitivity effect. One study investigating transitivity effect for email communication did not find a significant transitivity effect in the learning network under investigation [48]. Studies relate a positive transitivity effect to an interactive, cohesive and equally distributed learning community [40].…”

Section: Table 3 Definition Of Transitivitymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Transitivity is the tendency among two participants to be connected if they already share a tie to the same participant. [10,31,41,43,44,48,52] Transitivity is the occurrence of triads in a network. [25,36,40] No clear definition.…”

Section: Table 3 Definition Of Transitivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

How do Online Learning Networks Emerge? A Review Study of Self-Organizing Network Effects in the Field of Networked Learning

2019

In this article we want to understand in more detail how learning networks emerge in online networked learning environments. An adage in Networked Learning theory is that networked learning cannot be designed; it can only be designed for. This adage implicitly carries the idea that networked learning is seen as learning in which information and communication technology is used to promote (emergent) connections between learners and their peers, learners and tutors and learners and learning resources. Emergence entails a self-organizing component. However, there is no comprehensive understanding of how self-organizing network effects occur in networked learning environments, how they influence possible learning outcomes and how these network effects can be enhanced or frustrated by the design elements of different networked learning environments. By means of a review we investigate how the three most known self-organizing network effects occur in networked learning environments, namely preferential attachment, reciprocity and transitivity. Results show that in most studies self-organizing network effects are significantly present. Moreover we found important (design) elements related to the people, the physical environments and the tasks of the learning networks that could influence these self-organizing network effects. Studies that looked at learning outcomes are limited. Based on the review study future research directions for the field of Networked Learning are addressed.

“…First of the development of the internet, there were millions of e-mail users in the world (even growing) who only spent their time/study using e-mail services [3]. In his research shows that email has contributed to the growth of distributed organizations, by allowing people in various regions to be able to communicate [4] [5]. This also led to the emergence of an online community that supports asynchronous communication.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study of E-mail Data Services based on Delay Tolerant Network in The Riau Province Border Region

Kharisma¹,

Laumal²,

Cahyanto³

et al. 2018

IJET

Indonesia is an archipelagic country that is geographically unique, where most of the land has uneven land contours because it consists of mountains and valleys. This condition is one of the causes of the inequality of information dissemination even though the ICT infrastructure has supported and internet services are also available. Topographical factors and inequality of information dissemination pose digital deviations in the community, especially border areas in Riau Province which have not been able to enjoy internet services in some of the regions. Even though the process of data transmission to other regions is needed by both government agencies placed in border areas and the general public who need internet services for data transmission (text, audio, and video). Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) technology is a network protocol that allows communication networks to be applied in extreme environments that have long delay characteristics, high loss rates, and low connectivity levels. With DTN, internet services can be implemented and presented cheaply using only DTN Router which will move to areas that are not reachable by the internet and collect email data digitally. Furthermore, DTN Router and processes every transmission request from/to the border regions with extreme topography. By using the Flooding method applied to the DTN protocol, testing of e-mail data packet transmission from simulations at several locations in Riau is considered to have high data loss. Testing modeled by several computers with DTN, doing a bundle of data packages, transmitting to destinations and assessing the efficiency of their success. The test results show that the data transmission process in extreme areas using DTN protocol, Indicates that the larger the size of the file sent. So, the greater the time needed for data transmission. Approximate of time is needed of transmission data of the 95MB file that is 4,1 second..