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Ammar Bahadur Singh; Anders Mørch – Journal of Educators Online, 2024
Facilitating students' learning in a massive open online context is challenging for instructors in online teaching. The instructors should enact their professional (epistemic) feedback-giving skills to understand when, how, and why to address learning problems. In this study, we address this issue in terms of agency and suggest strategies that…
Descriptors: Epistemology, MOOCs, Intervention, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Parastou Gholami Pasand; Jaleh Hassaskhah – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Developing intercultural sensitivity in the current multicultural world is an essential, but challenging requirement. This necessity is significant in EFL classes where learners are expected to gain intercultural skills to communicate more efficiently in culturally diverse contexts. Grounded in Bennett's (Bennett, International Journal of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Communities of Practice
Yi Song; Ralph P. Ferretti; John Sabatini; Wenju Cui – ETS Research Institute, 2024
Collaborative learning environments that support students' problem solving have been shown to promote better decision-making, greater academic achievement, and more reasonable argumentation about controversial issues. In this research, we developed a technology-based critical discussion platform to support middle school students' argumentation,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
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Brunton, Robyn; MacDonald, Jasmine; Sugden, Nicole; Hicks, Ben – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Discussion forums are often touted as maximising student participation and learning but concerns around engagement counter any perceived benefits. Often participation is the measure of engagement, and students who do not post are deemed unengaged. To further examine engagement and forums as learning communities, we used analytic data from 270…
Descriptors: Students, Discussion Groups, Student Participation, Learner Engagement
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Geller, Shulamit – Online Learning, 2023
Group supervision, a common method in graduate psychology training, shifted abruptly to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to increase understanding of psychology graduate students' perception of online group supervision during COVID-19 by focusing on the group process and the students' professional identity formation.…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Supervision, Graduate Students
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Hamadi, Hanadi; Tafili, Aurora; Kates, Frederick R.; Larson, Samantha A.; Ellison, Carlyn; Song, Jihee – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
Online discussion boards are a standard learning management system (LMS) instructional tool used in the emerging online learning pedagogy. This pilot study examined an innovative approach that differs from how discussion boards have been commonly used. Using a retrospective, cross-sectional design, we evaluated the effect of shifting from…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Discussion Groups, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Computer Mediated Communication
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Haron, Haeza; Kasuma, Shaidatul Akma Adi; Akhiar, Ayuni – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2021
This study uses WhatsApp to facilitate online discussions in developing content idea for ESL writing. A quasi-experimental study was conducted with 33 pre-university students participating in online discussions on WhatsApp for five weeks to support face-to-face instructions. Pre-test, post-test, and five weekly writing tests were administered,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Discussion Groups
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Carr, Jennie – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2020
Asynchronous online discussion boards are frequently utilized as a pedagogical tool within traditional, hybrid, and online collegiate courses. Research has found teacher candidates can be disenchanted with the monotonous structure of traditional asynchronous online discussion boards. In educator preparation, we claim to understand teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Geller, Shay A.; Gal, Kobi; Segal, Avi; Sripathi, Kamali; Kim, Hyunsoo G.; Facciotti, Marc T.; Igo, Michele; Hoernle, Nicholas; Karger, David – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2021
This article provides computational and rule-based approaches for detecting confusion that is expressed in students' comments in couse forums. To obtain reliable, ground truth data about which posts exhibit student confusion, we designed a decision tree that facilitates the manual labeling of forum posts by experts. However, manual labeling is…
Descriptors: Identification, Misconceptions, Student Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication
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Joiner, Keith. F.; Rees, Leanne; Levett, Britt; Sitnikova, Elena; Townsend, Dijana – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Increasingly postgraduate courses are delivered online to meet professionals' demands for life-long learning. The research examined the efficacy of students critiquing each other's seminal work, by either direct exchange or via online fora, as a structured part of their formal assessments. A total of 377 students across three experimental and two…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups
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Ouyang, Fan; Li, Xu; Sun, Dan; Jiao, Pengcheng; Yao, Jiajia – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
The development of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has proceeded through three generations, and in all three, online discussions have been considered a critical component. Although discussions in MOOCs have the potential to promote learning, instructors have faced challenges facilitating learners' knowledge inquiry, construction, and…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Online Courses
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Oliveira, Alessandro Silva de; Silva, Matheus Alberto Rodrigues; Silva, Dirceu da; Borges, Richardson Coimbra – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2021
Online learning is a reality in much of the world. Among the tools available for online learning, there are Online Discussion Forums (ODF), due to their potential to promote collaborative learning. However, there is a lack in the literature about the evaluation of the forums, a gap marked by the absence of quantitative tools that make it possible…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Hong, Yvonne; Gardner, Lesley – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
This study presents and evaluates the educational potentials that Social Network Services (SNS) offer to students in the higher education context. The first aim of this study is to explore students' perceptions of Facebook Learning Groups (ie, Facebook Groups that were created for learning purposes), and the learning and affective benefits that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement, Social Networks
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Li, Qiujie; Zhou, Xuehan; Bostian, Brad; Xu, Di – Online Learning, 2021
With the rapid growth of online learning at community colleges and the low course completion and performance associated with it, there has been increasing need to identify effective ways to address the challenges in online teaching and learning at this setting. Based on open-ended survey responses from 105 instructors and 365 students from…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
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Ai-Hwa – Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of conducting asynchronous online discussion forums on low-achieving EFL students in Taiwan. 124 non-English program students from a technological university participated. Based on a textbook, one to three questions were assigned every other week. An asynchronous learning mode was implemented…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Asynchronous Communication, Electronic Learning
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