The purpose of this article is to examine methodological challenges in the study of computer-mediated learning communities and propose strategies for advancing research methodology. Two major methodological issues are addressed. First, there is a growing concern for researchers to address a broader range of social, political, and cultural factors when studying computer-mediated learning communi...

the goal of this study was to investigate the effect of using computer conceptual maps­, compared with  usual way of drawing them by pencil and paper­, in increasing learning, recalling and educational progress motivation in geology course among high school students. the study was conducted in semi experimental method in which students of 3 classes were classified in 3 groups. (group 1: common ...

The aim of this work is to bring together the traditional way of teaching and work using a computer-supported environment. This means increasing the flexibility of the learning processes application, giving the chance to instructors to introduce variations on runtime. Besides, learning processes are refined through their use, by making permanent the modifications which have shown to improve the...

The aim of this study was to describe and find out motivational English language learning strategies through computers among Iranian EFL learners and find out how learners’ motivations change towards English language learning through computers.The mixed method approach (quantitative and qualitative) was employed in this study. A total of 84 (out of 130) female freshman university learners from ...

It seems to be a common feeling that animals learn to see, and this feeling, together with the re-emergence of computer learning paradigms that mimic many forms of human learning, has raised hopes that learning is the key to the computer vision problem. Indeed, it seems clear that Nature does not \program" all our visual capabilities into the genome, and we certainly know that programming a com...