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Bures, Eva Mary; Abrami, Philip C.; Schmid, Richard F. – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2010
This paper explores a labelling feature designed to support higher-level online dialogue. It investigates whether students use labels less often during a structured online dialogue than during an unstructured one, and looks at students' reactions to labelling and to both types of tasks. Participants are from three successive course offerings of a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Use Studies, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Distance Education
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Yeh, Shiou-Wen; Lo, Jia-Jiunn; Huang, Jeng-Jia – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011
With the advent of computer technology, researchers and instructors are attempting to devise computer support for effective collaborative technical writing. In this study, a computer-supported environment for collaborative technical writing was developed. This system (Process-Writing Wizard) provides process-oriented scaffolds and a synchronous…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Writing Strategies, Student Motivation, Writing Processes
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Nussbaum, E. Michael; Winsor, Denise L.; Aqui, Yvette M.; Poliquin, Anne M. – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2007
We examine the effect of online Argumentation Vee Diagrams (AVDs) on the quality of students' argumentation during asynchronous, online discussions. With AVDs, students develop arguments on both sides of a controversial issue and then develop an integrated, overall final conclusion. In this study, students used AVDs individually before composing…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Persuasive Discourse, Visual Aids