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Chen, Chih-Ming; Li, Ming-Chaun; Huang, Ya-Ling – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
By applying two-mode social networks and Chinese word segmentation technologies, a novel visualization tool, the instant semantic analysis and feedback system (ISAFS), is designed in this study to present the semantic networks of co-words and non-co-words used in learners' discussion processes and assist learners in grasping the discussion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Semantics, Feedback (Response)
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Shan, JunHao; Wang, Wei – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Collaboration is the key element of maker movement. Online maker community is a new environment for makers to collaborate with one another voluntarily. This article selected one of the largest open online maker communities in China as the research sample. A total of 1292 postings selected from 19 threads were coded using Schaefer et al.'s (2019,…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Computer Mediated Communication
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Siqin, Tuya; Chu, Samuel Kai Wah – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
Collective responsibility matters because it reflects students' collective efforts and abilities to accomplish successful collaboration. Combining a multi-faceted approach and time-line analysis, this paper aims to examine the emergence and manifestation of collective responsibility in online discourse. Twenty university students participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Responsibility, Cooperative Learning
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Beth, Alicia D.; Jordan, Michelle E.; Schallert, Diane L.; Reed, JoyLynn H.; Kim, Minseong – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether and how students enact "responsibility" and "generativity" through their comments in asynchronous online discussions. "Responsibility" referred to discourse markers indicating participants' sense that their contributions are required in order to uphold their…
Descriptors: Student Responsibility, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Galley, Rebecca; Conole, Gráinne; Alevizou, Panagiota – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
Cloudworks (Cloudworks.ac.uk) is a social networking site designed for sharing, finding and discussing learning and teaching ideas and experiences. Design and development of the site has been based on an iterative analysis, development and implementation approach, underpinned by ongoing research and evaluation. To this end, we have been seeking to…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web 2.0 Technologies, Computer Mediated Communication, Communities of Practice
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Tirado, Ramón; Hernando, Ángel; Aguaded, José Ignacio – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
Interactive relationships in online learning communities can influence the process and quality of knowledge building. The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the relationships between network structures and social knowledge building in an asynchronous writing environment through discussion forums in a learning management system. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Tseng, Kuo-Hung; Chang, Chi-Cheng; Lou, Shi-Jer – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
This study aims to explore how high school students collaboratively solve problems in a web problem-based learning (WPBL) system in an 8-week digital logic course using discourse analysis. Employing in-depth interviews, this study also investigated the students' attitudes toward the WPBL system. The number of teaching assistants' responses had a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Internet
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Laru, Jari; Jarvela, Sanna; Clariana, Roy B. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
This study explores how collaborative inquiry learning can be supported with multiple scaffolding agents in a real-life field trip context. In practice, a mobile peer-to-peer messaging tool provided meta-cognitive and procedural support, while tutors and a nature guide provided more dynamic scaffolding in order to support argumentative discussions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Field Trips, Persuasive Discourse
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Nagel, L.; Blignaut, A. S.; Cronje, J. C. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2009
The establishment of an online community is widely held as the most important prerequisite for successful course completion and depends on an interaction between a peer group and a facilitator. Beaudoin reasoned that online students sometimes engage and learn even when not taking part in online discussions. The context of this study was an online…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Online Courses, Peer Relationship, Educational Technology