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Agustí Canals; Josep Cobarsí-Morales; Eva Ortoll – Online Learning, 2025
The idea of social capital as the value obtainable from an individual's social relationships has been used to study many organizational and social settings, but rarely virtual environments. We used data from an online higher education institution to examine how an individual's social capital derived from her position in the social structure…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Capital, Academic Achievement, Social Structure
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Long, Yishi; Koehler, Adrie A. – Online Learning, 2021
Discussion is an essential component in case-based learning (CBL), as it offers students the opportunity to consider diverse perspectives, clarify confusion, and construct understanding. As a facilitator bears most of the responsibility for the overall success of CBL, understanding how facilitation strategies influence interactions during…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
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Ayesha Sadaf; Larisa Olesova; Hajeen Choi – Online Learning, 2024
This study investigated the dynamics of complex interactions within inquiry-based (IB) discussions by visualizing patterns using social network analysis. Researchers explored network measures when learners participated in inquiry-based discussions with Practical Inquiry Model (PIM) and non-PIM questions while playing the weekly moderator's role.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Inquiry
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Alwafi, Enas Mohammad – Online Learning, 2022
This study investigated the impact of using a discussion strategy with learning analytics on the level of student cognitive presence and interaction. The study used a quasi-experimental design with control and experimental groups. The experimental group applied open-ended discussion and elaborated feedback with learning analytics while the control…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Analytics, Interpersonal Communication
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Gilmore, Dawn Marie – Online Learning, 2020
This study employs dramaturgical analysis, the study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance, in examining online student interactions. Region-specific activity--front stage (the course LMS) versus backstage (Facebook)--was examined to determine where students spend their time doing class-related tasks. The context for this case…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Psychology, Management Systems, Social Networks
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Bedford, Laurie – Online Learning, 2019
The Professional Learning Community (PLC) has been used in higher education to provide a platform for faculty members to discuss challenges and build professional skills. While the virtual PLC (VPLC) is becoming a more acceptable delivery mechanism for faculty professional development, successful practices for designing these learning environments…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Social Media, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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Duha, Mohammad Shams Ud; Richardson, Jennifer C.; Ahmed, Zohur; Yeasmin, Fahmida – Online Learning, 2022
Students' extensive use of Facebook in their daily lives has led researchers to investigate the affordances of Facebook for educational purposes. To further the research into the use of Facebook to improve language teaching, we conducted a convergent parallel mixed-methods study to examine the use of Community of Inquiry-informed Facebook…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Social Media, Social Networks, Second Language Learning
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Bonafini, Fernanda Cesar – Online Learning, 2018
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) attract thousands of participants who each exercise autonomy by engaging with resources and with other participants to whatever degree they wish. When analyzing participants' patterns of engagement in MOOCs, it is possible to notice that certain participants exhibit high levels of participation, actively…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Colwell, Jamie; Woodward, Lindsay; Hutchison, Amy – Online Learning, 2018
This research used an inductive qualitative method to examine how adolescents participated in online literature discussion, with limited guidance from adults, through a summer reading program. Using a New Literacies framework, the authors considered that literacy is social and collaborative and that adolescents often engage in such literacy…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Recreational Reading, Summer Programs, Public Libraries
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Koseoglu, Suzan; Bozkurt, Aras – Online Learning, 2018
This mixed methods study addresses a knowledge gap in the nature and effects of networked scholarship. We analyze #DigPed, a Twitter hashtag on critical pedagogy, through the lens of Tufekci's "capacities and signals" framework in order to understand how educational narratives develop and spread on #DigPed. Using social network analysis…
Descriptors: Social Media, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Social Networks
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Ruane, Regina; Lee, Vera J. – Online Learning, 2016
This study uses Critical Discourse Analysis and Social Network Analysis to examine an online peer mentoring site created to unite first-year and third-year preservice teachers enrolled in an undergraduate teacher education program. The peer mentoring site was developed to provide both first-year preservice teachers and more experienced peers the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Groups, Discourse Analysis, Social Networks
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Abdelmalak, Mariam Mousa Matta – Online Learning, 2015
The purpose of this action research was to explore students' perspectives regarding using Web 2.0 technologies to develop a community of learners. The course described in this study was a fully online course in an Educational Learning Technologies master's program at a medium-sized university in the U.S. Southwest. A variety of Web 2.0 tools…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Student Attitudes, Student Journals, Reflection
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Wicks, David; Craft, Baine B.; Lee, Donghun; Lumpe, Andrew; Henrikson, Robin; Baliram, Nalline; Bian, Xu; Mehlberg, Stacy; Wicks, Katy – Online Learning, 2015
Researchers in a recent study found that online students' ability to self-regulate led to more focused attention and time on task, and in turn, these skills could lead to better learning. Given the need for more theoretical work in this area, as well as the potential practical benefits from the use of these pedagogical strategies, we sought to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning, Learning Strategies, Self Management