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Growth Patterns and E-Moderating Supports in Asynchronous Online Discussions in an Undergraduate Blended Course
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Ghadirian, Hajar; Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd; Bakar, Kamariah Binti Abu; Hassanzadeh, Maryam – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This study presents a case study of asynchronous online discussions' (AOD) growth patterns in an undergraduate blended course to address the gap in our current understanding of how threads are developed in peer-moderated AODs. Building on a taxonomy of thread pattern proposed by Chan, Hew and Cheung (2009), growth patterns of thirty-six forums…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Blended Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
Cross-Age Peer Tutors in Asynchronous Discussion Groups: Studying the Impact of Tutors Labelling Their Interventions
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De Smet, M.; Van Keer, H.; Valcke, M. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2008
Cross-age tutors were randomly assigned to one of the three tutor training conditions distinguished for the current study: (1) the labelling experimental condition, characterized by requirements to label their tutor interventions, based on the e-moderating model of Salmon; (2) the non-labelling experimental condition, focusing on tutor's acting…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Discussion Groups, Tutor Training, Tutors