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Direct linkHui-Chin Yeh; Grace Yue Qi; Shih-hsien Yang – Distance Education, 2024
Guided by the framework of internationalization at home (IaH), this study employed a mixed-methods approach investigating the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) among a group of tertiary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Taiwan, facilitated through the means of telecollaboration. The telecollaboration…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Computer Mediated Communication, Cultural Awareness, Interpersonal Competence
Darabi, Aubteen; Jin, Li – Distance Education, 2013
This article focuses on heavy cognitive load as the reason for the lack of quality associated with conventional online discussion. Using the principles of cognitive load theory, four online discussion strategies were designed specifically aiming at reducing the discussants' cognitive load and thus enhancing the quality of their online discussion.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Walker, Ute – Distance Education, 2017
This article examines the discursive construction of social presence and identity in a bilingual collaboration between tertiary distance learners of German in New Zealand and Academic English students in Germany. Drawing on positioning theory, this small-scale study investigated the collaborative practices of a group of students, whose synchronous…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning
Friend Wise, Alyssa; Padmanabhan, Poornima; Duffy, Thomas M. – Distance Education, 2009
This mixed-methods study probed the effectiveness of three kinds of objects (video, theory, metaphor) as common reference points for conversations between online learners (student teachers). Individuals' degree of detail-focus was examined as a potentially interacting covariate and the outcome measure was learners' level of tacit knowledge related…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication, Figurative Language
Baran, Evrim; Correia, Ana-Paula – Distance Education, 2009
This study explored student-led facilitation strategies used to overcome the challenges of instructor-dominated facilitation, enhance the sense of learning community, and encourage student participation in online discussions. It presents a series of cases of students' facilitation strategies and using qualitative data analysis of discussion…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Student Motivation
Dennen, Vanessa Paz; Wieland, Kristina – Distance Education, 2007
This article examines the online discourse that took place in representative threads from two classes, seeking to document indicators that students did or did not engage in co-construction of knowledge. Stahl's (2006) social theory of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is used along with discourse analysis methods to examine these…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Learning Processes
