Research in online education has demonstrated that sense of classroom community is an important factor in learning. This study extends the research to the new learning environment of virtual worlds and compares classroom community and learning satisfaction with different learning tasks in two distance learning courses. Students’ perceptions of classroom community and learning satisfaction were ...

Technological advances related to information and communication technologies are having profound impacts on the education and training industries and learning processes. As technology-mediated learning (TML) becomes commonplace back-dropped against continued primary reliance on the traditional classroom (TC), there are significant implications for TC learning. Moreover, in light of Leidner and ...

Classroom climate has been demonstrated to associate with individuals’ various attributes and outcomes. Recent research has also confirmed students’ goal orientations deserving to be recognized as a significant achievement-related outcome. In this line, the current study intended to examine the relationship between Iranian EFL students’ perceptions of their classroom environment and their achie...

Virtual Synergy is a three-dimensional environment for collaboration between humans, software agents and robots. We have created several tools to enable the use of Virtual Synergy as a viable tool for classroom instruction as well as research work. We have created software to enable robots to work inside of a three-dimensional environment of Virtual Synergy as well as libraries for agent creati...

This paper describes a Computer-Supported Mobile Learning (CSML) environment for language learning, called Language-learning Outside the Classroom with Handhelds (LOCH). In the environment, the teacher assigns field activities to the students, who go around the town to fulfil them and share their individual knowledge and experiences. The main aim of this project, called One-Day Trip with PDA, w...