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Publication Date: 2016
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Identifying Collaborative Behaviours Online: Training Teachers in Wikis
Vinagre Laranjeira, Margarita
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In this paper we explore the data gathered from a group of nine in-service teachers who were trained online to become future telecollaborative teachers. Participants from different countries worked in two small groups in a wiki designed specially to facilitate discussion and collaboration. Tasks included reading and reviewing articles on telecollaboration, critically analysing examples from authentic exchanges, organising a hypothetical exchange and designing a tool for its assessment. Analyses of the pattern, scope and nature of user contributions as reliable measures of collaborative behaviours by wiki-users were carried out on the data gathered from six wiki pages and corresponding discussion pages. Findings and discussion elaborate on the collaborative behaviour (or lack thereof) observed among participants. [For the complete volume, "New Perspectives on Teaching and Working with Languages in the Digital Era," see ED565799.]
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction, Teacher Collaboration, Collaborative Writing, Editing, Web Sites, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, International Cooperation, Communities of Practice, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Group Activities, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Coding, Group Dynamics
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