Students' perspectives on the impact of Blackboard Collaborate on Open University Australia (OUA) online learning
Blackboard Collaborate (BC), a synchronous, multimodal platform, has been incorporated into Open University Australia (OUA) students' online learning experiences. This study sought to investigate the perspectives of 134 interdisciplinary OUA students via an online survey and follow-up interview...
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Journal of Educators Online
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| author | Chen, Julian Dobinson, Toni KENT, Sarah |
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| description | Blackboard Collaborate (BC), a synchronous, multimodal platform, has been incorporated into Open University Australia (OUA) students' online learning experiences. This study sought to investigate the perspectives of 134 interdisciplinary OUA students via an online survey and follow-up interviews. Findings revealed students' positive perceptions about BC as an engaging, real-time medium for feedback exchange, knowledge sharing, and virtual community building. Despite appreciating lecturers' telepresence, some students preferred not to show faces or use voice chat and queried the expediency of the BC technology and the timing of lecturer feedback, however. This investigation highlighted the pedagogical implications of synchronous teaching in distance education. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-778252020-05-04T03:29:12Z Students' perspectives on the impact of Blackboard Collaborate on Open University Australia (OUA) online learning Chen, Julian Dobinson, Toni KENT, Sarah Blackboard Collaborate (BC), a synchronous, multimodal platform, has been incorporated into Open University Australia (OUA) students' online learning experiences. This study sought to investigate the perspectives of 134 interdisciplinary OUA students via an online survey and follow-up interviews. Findings revealed students' positive perceptions about BC as an engaging, real-time medium for feedback exchange, knowledge sharing, and virtual community building. Despite appreciating lecturers' telepresence, some students preferred not to show faces or use voice chat and queried the expediency of the BC technology and the timing of lecturer feedback, however. This investigation highlighted the pedagogical implications of synchronous teaching in distance education. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77825 https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1241569.pdf Journal of Educators Online unknown |
| spellingShingle | Chen, Julian Dobinson, Toni KENT, Sarah Students' perspectives on the impact of Blackboard Collaborate on Open University Australia (OUA) online learning |
| title | Students' perspectives on the impact of Blackboard Collaborate on Open University Australia (OUA) online learning |
| title_full | Students' perspectives on the impact of Blackboard Collaborate on Open University Australia (OUA) online learning |
| title_fullStr | Students' perspectives on the impact of Blackboard Collaborate on Open University Australia (OUA) online learning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Students' perspectives on the impact of Blackboard Collaborate on Open University Australia (OUA) online learning |
| title_short | Students' perspectives on the impact of Blackboard Collaborate on Open University Australia (OUA) online learning |
| title_sort | students' perspectives on the impact of blackboard collaborate on open university australia (oua) online learning |
| url | https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1241569.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77825 |