This study aims at investigating the effect of dynamic assessment (DA) on L2 writing achievement if applied via blogging as a Web 2.0 tool, as well as examining which pattern of interaction is more conducive to learning in such an environment. The results of the study indicate that using weblogs to provide mediation contributes to the enhancement of the overall writing performance, vocabulary a...

Junior faculty wishing to achieve successful careers in academic medicine face many challenges. To facilitate faculty in their career development, the authors implemented and evaluated an innovative collaborative, or peer-group, mentoring program at their medical school. Based on Rogerian and adult learning principles, the program incorporated development of skills in key areas for career devel...

Internet growth has induced the development of a large number of collaborative tools for online writing and information sharing. Educators quickly realized the benefits of such tools for learners, allowing them to work online, to share their knowledge and help each other. Distance learning is a key concept in today’s educational research; collaborative learning environments are becoming widespr...

For communicable writing, reviewing and revising is essential. In this paper, we propose an SNS-based environment to improve writing by repeated collaborative reviewing. The results of an experiment comparing the system against face-to-face collaborative writing show that while face-to-face learners wrote better reports quickly, the system-users could also write reports of the matched quality i...

Collaborative communication produces high power gain and significantly mitigates the fading if both frequency and phase synchronization are achieved. In this paper, a procedure of the capacity calculation for collaborative communication system with imperfect phase synchronization that includes the influence of noise and Rayleigh fading is proposed, modeled, theoretically analyzed and simulated....

Collaborative writing (CW) in policy agenda setting and grant development is an important aspect of community development. However, solutions need to be found to better deal with distributed CW. This paper establishes a basis for improving distributed, CW for policy agenda setting, and similar efforts, by using a Internet-based collaborative tool. This work utilizes key research to better under...

This study investigated the quality of metacognition at its inter-individual level, i.e., socially-shared metacognition, across two collaborative writing tasks of different difficulty levels among a cohort of Iranian EFL learners.  Moreover, it examined the correlation between the individual and the social modes of metacognition in writing.  The analysis of think-aloud protocols of a number of ...

This paper reports on progress on the design of OpenEssayist, a web application that aims at supporting students in writing essays. The system uses techniques from Natural Language Processing to automatically extract summaries from free-text essays, such as key words and key sentences, and carries out essay structure recognition. The current design approach described in this paper has led to a ...

Collaborative writing (CW) in policy agenda setting and grant development is an important aspect of community development. However, solutions need to be found to better deal with distributed CW. This paper establishes a basis for improving distributed, CW for policy agenda setting, and similar efforts, by using a Internet-based collaborative tool. This work utilizes key research to better under...