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Mian Wu; Fan Ouyang – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2025
Online collaborative discussion (OCD) focuses on promoting individual knowledge inquiry and group knowledge construction through active peer interactions and communications. In practice, it is necessary to explore how different modes of OCD come into play, in which student engagement can function as an evaluating indicator. To identify student…
Descriptors: Probability, Multivariate Analysis, Learner Engagement, Asynchronous Communication
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Thomas Kasakowskij; Joerg M. Haake – Discover Education, 2025
Group projects are an important part of many educational programs. In these projects, groupware tools like shared workspaces, shared editors, and synchronous or asynchronous communication tools (video conferencing, chat, email, forum) are often utilized. For synchronous collaboration, video conferencing systems are often used since they allow for…
Descriptors: Teleconferencing, Videoconferencing, Verbal Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Tin-Chun Lin – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2024
In this research, we investigated whether online discussions can significantly benefit students' learning in online courses. We designed an experiment by dividing 129 students who enrolled in four fully online "Introduction to Microeconomics" courses taught by the same instructor into four groups (one control group and three experimental…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Economics Education, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication
Siyuan Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the role of multimedia applications in enhancing student engagement in higher education, with a particular focus on the dynamics of asynchronous discussion forums and lurking behaviors. Leveraging multimedia applications facilitates dynamic, inquiry-based discussions that promote deeper cognitive engagement and…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Learner Engagement, Higher Education
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Nicola Böhlke; Benjamin Zander; Daniel Rode – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
The purpose of this study was to explore how students interpret and negotiate menstruation in PE in online forums. We conducted a qualitative discourse analysis of 12 threads from 4 different German-language online forums, in which menstruation in PE is discussed by students. Our goal was to analyse which topics structure this online discourse and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Females, Physiology, Student Attitudes
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Wanli Xing; Hai Li; Taehyun Kim; Wangda Zhu; Yukyeong Song – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Although researchers recognize the importance of discussing support for math learning within online learning communities, there is a lack of relevant network classifying methods and analyses at the group level to understand the behavioral differences between groups with varying levels of activity, including their mathematical literacies. In this…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Group Discussion, Communities of Practice
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Tom Neuschafer – Journal of Educators Online, 2024
This research used qualitative netnography to examine the use of Duolingo German discussion boards among users of varying levels of engagement. The sample contained six participants of various levels of engagement. The criteria for selecting participants were based on usage counts in the discussion board community. This study aimed to examine…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German, Computer Software
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Taufik Slamet; Thomas Brush; Kyungbin Kwon – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2025
This study aims to investigate the effects of competition through a digital leaderboard in gamified online discussions on learners' behavioral and cognitive engagement in learning. Twenty-three graduate students pursuing master's degree in instructional technology in a public university in Indonesia were involved in a five-week quasi-experiment (N…
Descriptors: Competition, Gamification, Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion
Sarah C. B. Norsworthy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Picture books are often underused tools in schools and communities. The purpose of this research was to investigate the affordances and constraints of using picture books as tools to deepen senses of identity and belonging. Two cycles of participatory action research were conducted: the first with educators and the second with adults who…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Adult Education, Group Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication
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Murat Cinar; Omer Demir; Sinan Keskin – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2024
Examination of the personal characteristics (i.e., gender, participation styles) of participants and the technical infrastructure (i.e., device type, internet connection type) of Instructional Discussion Forums (IDFs) can provide functional clues for mitigating social anxiety in these settings. In this context, this research investigated variances…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Gender Differences, Anxiety, College Freshmen
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Jianhui Yu – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2025
Sentiments expressed on massive open online course (MOOC) discussion forums significantly influence learning effectiveness and academic performance. The evolution of learning sentiments on MOOC discussion forums is a dynamic process; however, a gap exists in the current understanding of the interplay between evolving sentiments and their impact on…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Student Attitudes, Group Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication
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Yawen Yu; Yang Tao; Gaowei Chen; Can Sun – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Deep discussions play an important role in students' online learning. However, researchers have largely focused on engaging students in deep discussions in online asynchronous forums. Few studies have investigated how to promote deep discussion via mobile instant messaging (MIM). Objectives: In this study, we applied learning…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, College Students, Epistemology, Computer Mediated Communication
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Marek Hatala; Sina Nazeri – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2024
An essential part of making dashboards more effective in motivating students and leading to desirable behavioural change is knowing what information to communicate to the student and how to frame and present it. Most of the research studying dashboards' impact on learning analyzes learning indicators of students as a group. Understanding how a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Information Dissemination, Learning Processes, Algorithms
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Thanet Ramangkura; Chakrit Ponathong; Onuma Charoensuk – Higher Education Studies, 2025
The aims of this study were to: 1) assess the current and expected conditions of transformational leadership of Thai Buddhist university students; 2) develop and examine the effectiveness of training package to enhance the transformational leadership of Thai Buddhist university students, and 3) study the effectiveness of the training package. This…
Descriptors: Buddhism, Transformational Leadership, Leadership Training, Instructional Effectiveness
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Wei Xu; Le-Ying Yang; Xiao Liu; Pin-Nv Jin – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Teacher feedback is the key to online collaborative discussion. To investigate the effects of different forms of teacher feedback intervention on learners' cognitive and emotional interactions in online collaborative discussion, this study collected collaborative discussion text data of online collaborative learners. Based on the framework of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Student Relationship, Communities of Practice, Cooperative Learning
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