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Measuring and Visualizing Group Knowledge Elaboration in Online Collaborative Discussions
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Zheng, Yafeng; Xu, Chang; Li, Yanyan; Su, You – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
Knowledge elaboration plays a critical role in promoting knowledge acquisition and facilitating the retention of target knowledge in online collaborative discussions. Adopting a key-term-based automated analysis approach, we proposed an indicator framework to measure the level of knowledge elaboration in terms of coverage, activation, and…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Knowledge Level, Academic Ability
Web 2.0 Technologies and Building Online Learning Communities: Students' Perspectives
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Abdelmalak, Mariam Mousa Matta – Online Learning, 2015
The purpose of this action research was to explore students' perspectives regarding using Web 2.0 technologies to develop a community of learners. The course described in this study was a fully online course in an Educational Learning Technologies master's program at a medium-sized university in the U.S. Southwest. A variety of Web 2.0 tools…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Student Attitudes, Student Journals, Reflection
Identifying Patterns of Collaborative Knowledge Exploration in Online Asynchronous Discussions
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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
Nontraditional Students Online: Composition, Collaboration, and Community
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Melkun, Cheryl Hawkinson – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2012
In November 2008 the Sloan Consortium published "Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States." This study produced survey statistics relating to enrollments in online courses. The study confirmed what most administrators and faculty members already suspected: the growth of online higher education continues to be astounding;…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Discourse Communities, Higher Education, Writing (Composition)
Collaborative Learning and Sense of Audience in Two Computer-Mediated Discourse Communities.
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Napierkowski, Harriet – 2001
Currently, university composition programs are experimenting with the delivery of online writing courses, without the component of face-to-face interaction. To assess the efficacy of this delivery medium, a study compared two groups of undergraduate students in a course on argumentative writing taught by the same instructor: one group taking the…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Comparative Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning
Students' Self-Confidence and Learning through Dialogues in a Net-Based Environment
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Jakobsson, Anders – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2006
The study describes the factors that render possible and restrain students' learning when they try to develop new knowledge through collaboration in a net-based learning environment. The pedagogical platform takes as its starting point a framework of socio-cultural theories of learning and is based on dialogues and collaborative situations in…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Learning Theories, Academic Achievement, Performance Factors