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Using Scholarly Online Communities to Empower Students
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Bach, Dorothe J. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2011
This article seeks to inspire humanities and social science faculty to explore ways of utilizing existing scholarly online communities to engage students in the process of academic inquiry. The author discusses her own experience using a discipline-specific listserv, shares successful assignments, examples of student postings and a grading rubric.…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Social Sciences, Learning Experience, Humanities
English and French Journal Abstracts in the Language Sciences: Three Exploratory Studies
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Van Bonn, Sarah; Swales, John M. – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2007
This article compares French and English academic article abstracts from the language sciences in an attempt to understand how and why language choice might affect this part-genre--both in actual use and according to authors' linguistic and rhetorical perceptions. Two corpora are used: Corpus A consists of abstracts from a French linguistics…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Form Classes (Languages), French, Documentation
Using Discussion Webs to Develop an Academic Community of Learners
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Matusov, Eugene; Hayes, Renee; Pluta, Mary Jane – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
The World Wide Web has made possible an entirely new form of communication in the classroom: asynchronous, public, non-sequential, and selective (Windschitl, 1998). However, it is unclear how discussion webs can contribute to educational processes. Our research investigates the role of instructional interactive webs in promoting among preservice…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Discussion
A Comparative Study of Software To Aid the Development of a Conceptual Framework for Instructional Design Theory.
Reushle, Shirley; McDonald, Jacquelin – 2001
This paper examines the possibility of technology supporting and facilitating the organization and development of knowledge in a particular field through critical discourse. The following three examples of discourse-structuring technologies have been investigated to determine whether selected software might support critical discourse to capture…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Cognitive Structures, Comparative Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication
Critical Thinking, Cognitive Presence, and Computer Conferencing in Distance Education.
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Garrison, D. Randy; Anderson, Terry; Archer, Walter – American Journal of Distance Education, 2001
Presents encouraging empirical findings related to an attempt to create an efficient and reliable instrument to assess the nature and quality of critical discourse and thinking in a text-based educational context. Suggests that cognitive presence (critical, practical inquiry) can be created and supported in a computer-conference environment with…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Cognitive Processes, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education
Academic Travel: Modes and Directions
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Barnett, Ronald; Phipps, Alison – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2005
The Great Khan's atlas contains also the maps of the promised lands visited in thought but not yet discovered or founded: New Atlantis, Utopia, the City of the Sun, Oceana, Tamoe, New Harmony, New Lanark, Icaria. Kublai asked Marco: "You, who go about exploring and who see signs, can you tell me towards which of these futures the favouring winds…
Descriptors: Travel, Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Global Approach