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Student and Teacher Perspectives in Computer-Mediated Learning Environments in Teacher Education

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Rapid advances in technology, particularly with the Internet, have led to the availability of numerous tools to support teaching and learning. This study involved the use of an Internet application, Connecting Communities of Learners (CCL), in courses for prospective teachers. Unlike earlier studies involving the use of the CCL, the context of this study related to full-time graduate students who used the CCL to augment weekly face-to-face instruction. An interpretive study was undertaken to ascertain student and teacher perceptions of the learning environments associated with the use of the CCL. Through the use of the CCL, students were able to be autonomous in regard to their own learning, co-participate with their peers and the instructor, and establish and maintain a community of learners in which participants could interact with others as co-teachers and co-learners. The CCL was perceived as a useful tool for building learning environments in which all participants can contribute written texts as evidence of what is known and as objects from which others can learn.

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  1. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 469 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, 259756, Singapore

    Swee Chiew Goh

  2. Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, 3700 Wlanut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6216, USA

    Kenneth Tobin

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Chiew Goh, S., Tobin, K. Student and Teacher Perspectives in Computer-Mediated Learning Environments in Teacher Education. Learning Environments Research 2, 169–190 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009921907828

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