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Yujie Chen; Yibing Zhang – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Carrying out opportunistic collaboration, a method of flexible collaboration centering around ideas and free collaboration structures, is important in knowledge creation organizations, especially for knowledge-building community formation. However, fixed-group collaboration is still widely employed in educational practice, hindering the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Learning Activities, Distance Education, Proximity
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Chiu, Ming Ming; Jeong, Allan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
We examined how social antecedents impact students' use of explanations versus evidence to justify arguments using "statistical discourse analysis" on 2028 postings from 87 graduate students in five courses, each participating in four online debates. The results show that students overall were much more likely to justify arguments with…
Descriptors: Evidence, Graduate Students, Research Universities, Persuasive Discourse