Fei Gao

TL;DR: The analysis suggests that microblogging has a potential to encourage participation, engagement, reflective thinking as well as collaborative learning under different learning settings, suggesting a need for rigorous research on MIE.

TL;DR: This paper analyzes how existing features of threaded forums constrain the quality of online discussion and argues that developing alternative discussion environments is highly needed to offer better support for asynchronous online communication.

TL;DR: This study investigated how some key features of online discourse influenced the continued participation of the members of a Twitter-based professional learning community and quantified the influences of these dimensions on users' commitment time to the Twitter community.

TL;DR: The findings suggested that students participated actively in the collaborative learning activity and were engaged in a variety of behaviors including self-reflection, elaboration, internalization, and showing support.

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship among intrinsic motivation, critical variables related to technology adoption, and students' behavioral intention in mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) and found that proper instructional design that is aligned with and supports the language learning task was important to increase students’ behavioral intention to adopt mobile devices for language learning.