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Wang, Zhijun; Anderson, Terry; Chen, Li; Barbera, Elena – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Connectivist learning is interaction-centered learning. A framework describing interaction and cognitive engagement in connectivist learning was constructed using logical reasoning techniques. The framework and analysis was designed to help researchers and learning designers understand and adapt the characteristics and principles of interaction in…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learning Processes, Interaction, Social Media
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Ligorio, Maria Beatrice; Impedovo, Maria Antonietta; Arcidiacono, Francesco – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2017
This article aims to investigate how university students perform agency in an online course and whether the collaborative nature of the course affects such expression. A total of 11 online web forums involving 18 students (N = 745 posts in total) were qualitatively analysed through the use of a codebook composed of five categories (individual,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Qualitative Research, Transcripts (Written Records), Computer Mediated Communication
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Çardak, Çigdem Suzan – Higher Education Studies, 2016
This article focusses on graduate level students' interactions during asynchronous CMC activities of an online course about the teaching profession in Turkey. The instructor of the course designed and facilitated a semester-long asynchronous CMC on forum discussions, and investigated the interaction of learners in multiple perspectives: learners'…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Online Courses
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Demir, Metin – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
The current study investigated which dimensions of scientific process are capitalized on by elementary school third graders to explain the concept of science at conceptual level. The study was conducted by using "Basic Qualitative Research", one of the qualitative research approaches with the participation of 225 elementary school third…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Scientific Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Grade 3
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Angelaina, Sophia; Jimoyiannis, Athanassios – Educational Media International, 2012
This paper reports on a case study investigating students' participation and learning presence in an educational blog implemented as a cross-thematic inquiry activity exploring and debating on the acid rain problem. Twenty-one secondary education students (14-15 years aged), coming from two separate classes, were involved. The content and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Oriogun, Peter K. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2009
In this article, the community of inquiry cognitive presence model was mapped to a recently developed semistructured approach to online discourse called SQUAD to detect aspects of critical or higher-order thinking online by cleaning online message transcript through the use of code-recode. It is argued that using code-recode in the way suggested…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Thinking Skills, Transcripts (Written Records), Coding