TY - GEN
T1 - A case study of students’ participation and knowledge construction in two online discussion settings
AU - Guo, Chen
AU - Chen, Xiangdong
AU - Hou, Yanru
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/5/24
Y1 - 2019/5/24
N2 - Online discussions have become important educational activities through which collaborative learning and knowledge construction in online courses can be facilitated. This study is an empirical case study in which a group of graduate students’ participation and knowledge construction in two online discussion settings is explored and compared. We examine participants’ interactions by dividing their online discussion posts into four types and investigate their knowledge construction by coding and analyzing the discourse. Results reveal that the participants tended to create more words and contents in the audio or video posts than those in the text posts. Besides, although most of knowledge construction behaviors took place in the early phases, the participants involved in the process of knowledge construction more frequently when the discussions occurred in the VoiceThread platform.
AB - Online discussions have become important educational activities through which collaborative learning and knowledge construction in online courses can be facilitated. This study is an empirical case study in which a group of graduate students’ participation and knowledge construction in two online discussion settings is explored and compared. We examine participants’ interactions by dividing their online discussion posts into four types and investigate their knowledge construction by coding and analyzing the discourse. Results reveal that the participants tended to create more words and contents in the audio or video posts than those in the text posts. Besides, although most of knowledge construction behaviors took place in the early phases, the participants involved in the process of knowledge construction more frequently when the discussions occurred in the VoiceThread platform.
KW - Audio/Video-Based Discussion
KW - Knowledge Construction
KW - Online Discussion Board
KW - Participation
KW - Text-Based Discussion
KW - VoiceThread Platform
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85070563131
U2 - 10.1145/3338147.3338177
DO - 10.1145/3338147.3338177
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85070563131
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 45
EP - 49
BT - Proceedings of 2019 the 4th International Conference on Distance Education and Learning, ICDEL 2019
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 4th International Conference on Distance Education and Learning, ICDEL 2019
Y2 - 24 May 2019 through 27 May 2019
ER -