Maryam Alavi's research while affiliated with University of Maryland, College Park and other places

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National commissions and scholarly reports on the status of contemporary higher education have frequently been critical of the college experience; the emphasis on transmitting fixed bodies of information and a failure to develop problem solving and critical thinking skills have been cited as serious weaknesses in higher education systems. Colleges...

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... According to literature, technology-mediated learning (TML) refers to an environment in which learners interact with instructional materials, peers, and or instructors where information technology plays an intermediary role in connecting the different stakeholders within a learning situation (Alavi, 1994;Ryoo & Lee, 2016). Essentially, TML theoretical assumption stresses that in educational technology research, technologies themselves have no intentions but are rather featured to convey meanings between stakeholders in a learning environment . ...