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Murphy, Elizabeth; Rodriguez Manzanares, Maria A. – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2006
This paper provides an illustrative example of an approach to creating and reporting individual profiles of engagement in particular behaviours in an online asynchronous discussion (OAD). Individual results of analysis of transcripts of an OAD can provide insights different from those gained by focusing on aggregate measures of group behaviours.…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Graduate Students, Student Behavior
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Murphy, Elizabeth; Ciszewska-Carr, Justyna – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2005
This paper reports on a case study which identifies and illustrates sources of difference in agreement in relation to reliability in a context of quantitative content analysis of a transcript of an online asynchronous discussion (OAD). Transcripts of 10 students in a month-long online asynchronous discussion were coded by two coders using an…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Content Analysis, Reliability, Case Studies
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Murphy, Elizabeth; Ciszewska-Carr, Justyna – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
This paper reports on a study which contrasts results obtained using semantic and syntactic units of analysis in a context of content analysis of an online asynchronous discussion. The paper presents a review of literature on both types of units. The data set consisted of 80 messages posted by ten participants in an online learning module. Data…
Descriptors: Semantics, Learning Modules, Online Courses, Semiotics