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Wittwer, Jorg; Nuckles, Matthias; Renkl, Alexander – Educational Psychology Review, 2010
To maximize the effectiveness of instructional explanations, they should be tailored to an individual learner. However, instructors are often not able to collect diagnostically relevant information about a learner to individualize their explanations. This is particularly true in computer-mediated settings where it is more difficult to thoroughly…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computers, Educational Psychology, Teaching Methods
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Williams, Dmitri; Caplan, Scott; Xiong, Li – Human Communication Research, 2007
This paper reports the results of a controlled field experiment in which voice communication was introduced into an existing online community (online gaming guilds within the popular game "World of Warcraft"), comparing a mix of voice and text with text only. Quantitative results suggest increases in liking and trust due to the addition of voice,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Social Capital, Information Processing, Games