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Title: Meaning-Making in Virtual Learning Environment Enabled Educational Innovations: A 13-Year Longitudinal Case Study
Language: English
Authors: Na Li (ORCID 0000-0003-2395-3499), Xiaojun Zhang, Maria Limniou (ORCID 0000-0002-6317-4038), Youmin Xi
Source: Interactive Learning Environments. 2024 32(1):168-182.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 15
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Learning Management Systems, Educational Innovation, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Program Implementation, Cognitive Processes, Universities, Technology Uses in Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
DOI: 10.1080/10494820.2022.2081582
ISSN: 1049-4820
1744-5191
Abstract: Despite the high expectation of virtual learning environments (VLEs) to accelerate meaningful educational innovations for more interactive learning and teaching, resistance to changes exists, and innovations are fading over time. How to promote widespread and steady adoption of VLE enabled innovations remains an open question. This study uses mixed methods to examine 13 years of VLE logs, archival documents, and interviews with 51 teachers to investigate two research questions: What is the threshold stage of the institutionalisation process of VLE enabled innovation, and how does the innovation become institutionalised in the threshold stage? We found that the majority VLE enabled innovations (such as virtual classrooms and interactive quizzes) were abandoned or faded before the new or changed learning and teaching practices were fully habitualised. The empirical results show that individual cognitive divergence and collective consensus could promote habitualised institutional leverage through a threshold process, namely, meaning-making. These findings extend our understanding of the cognitive mechanism, and we suggest that universities provide continuous facilitating and teacher support, both on technological use and pedagogical design, to help teachers develop the meaning of the action as a priority. Research significance and implications to the educational transformation in the COVID-19 pandemic are discussed.
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