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John M. Hinck; Steven B. Davis; Derrick J. Iwanenko – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This research confirms that incorporating concepts of Ba and Omoi with action research promoteshigher levels of learning. Currently, action research, Ba, and Omoi are understudied in militaryinstitutions and college programs. Using a case study approach and two cycles of action research, thisproject addressed how learning occurred for students and…
Descriptors: Leadership, Group Activities, Programs, Learning Processes
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Clarke, Lane Whitney; Bartholomew, Audrey – Online Learning, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate instructor participation in asynchronous discussions through an in-depth content analysis of instructors' postings and comments through the Community of Inquiry (COI) framework (Garrison et. al, 2001). We developed an analytical tool based on this framework in order to better understand what instructors…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Teacher Participation, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Content Analysis
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Lee, Silvia Wen-Yu; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
This study investigated 6 weeks of online asynchronous discussions in a graduate-level course involving eleven students. The research purposes of this study were to identify patterns of collaborative knowledge exploration (CKE) and to suggest new analytical dimensions for investigating online discussions. Based upon a unique theoretical framework…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Distance Education, Cognitive Processes, Computer Mediated Communication
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Ding, Huiling – Written Communication, 2008
This study reports about a yearlong study of the initiation of novice grant writers to the activity system of National Institutes of Health grant applications. It investigates the use of cognitive apprenticeship within writing classrooms and that of social apprenticeship in laboratories, programs, departments, and universities, which introduced…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Apprenticeships
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Stahl, Gerry – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2006
The Virtual Math Teams Project is exploring how to create, structure, support, and assess an online chat-based collaborative community devoted to mathematics discourse. It is analyzing the forms of group cognition that emerge from the use of shared cognitive tools with specific functionalities. Centered on a case study of a synchronous online…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Virtual Classrooms, Mathematics Education, Case Studies
Vellom, R. Paul; Anderson, Charles W.; Palincsar, Annemarie S. – 1995
This study examines thought, language, and related action in sixth-graders working to understand concepts related to mass, volume, and density. Students from a heterogeneous urban classroom worked in various social contexts including individually, in pairs, in groups of four, and as a class. Their work was examined via videotapes, field notes,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation