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Direct linkXi Lin; Qi Sun – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2024
This quantitative study investigates the impact of four types of discussion activities on adult learners' asynchronous online interactions. Specifically, this study aims to understand how different discussion activities incorporated into online discussion boards motivate adult learners' online participation. The four discussion activities are…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Online Courses, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Asynchronous Communication
Cheng, Mengmeng; Kinshuk – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Asynchronous discussions have been widely used in education to support learning. Exploring the reasons why threads in asynchronous discussion forums die may help us improve our understanding of asynchronous discussions and lead to a more effective learning process. This study explored why threads in asynchronous discussion forums shut down. Two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Patterns, Student Behavior, Computer Mediated Communication
Download full textSpatariu, Alexandru; Winsor, Denise L.; Simpson, Cynthia; Hosman, Eric – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
With the rapid advancements of technology, online communication in both K-12 and post-secondary instruction has been widely implemented. Instructors as well as researchers have used various frameworks to evaluate different aspects of online discussions' quality. The online discussions take place synchronously or asynchronously in chat rooms,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion, Persuasive Discourse, Interaction
Saeed, Murad Abdu; Ghazali, Kamila – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
The current paper reports an empirical study of asynchronous online group review of argumentative essays among nine English as foreign language (EFL) Arab university learners joining English in their first, second, and third years at the institution. In investigating online interactions, commenting patterns, and how the students facilitate text…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Persuasive Discourse
Ma, Ada W.W. – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2013
In recent research, little attention has been paid to issues of methodology and analysis methods to evaluate the quality of the collaborative learning community. To address such issues, an attempt is made to adopt the Activity System Model as an analytical framework to examine the relationship between computer supported collaborative learning…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking, Reflection
