TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigation on graduate students’ social presence and social knowledge construction in two online discussion settings
AU - Guo, Chen
AU - Shea, Peter
AU - Chen, Xiangdong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Online discussions have become important educational activities through which collaborative learning and knowledge construction can be facilitated. This study explores the use of two online discussion tools, online discussion board and VoiceThread, for supporting online course discussion activities among a group of graduate students and investigates the differences in the levels of social presence and social knowledge construction in the two discussion settings. Meanwhile, the participants’ posting behaviors and interaction patterns were also examined. Results reveal that the participants contributed more words when using the audio and video features of VoiceThread. Additionally, the graduate students tended to create more contents and demonstrated more social presence behaviors when interacting with others in the VoiceThread discussion platform. However, the participants exhibited fewer social knowledge construction behaviors than they did in the text-based online discussion board.
AB - Online discussions have become important educational activities through which collaborative learning and knowledge construction can be facilitated. This study explores the use of two online discussion tools, online discussion board and VoiceThread, for supporting online course discussion activities among a group of graduate students and investigates the differences in the levels of social presence and social knowledge construction in the two discussion settings. Meanwhile, the participants’ posting behaviors and interaction patterns were also examined. Results reveal that the participants contributed more words when using the audio and video features of VoiceThread. Additionally, the graduate students tended to create more contents and demonstrated more social presence behaviors when interacting with others in the VoiceThread discussion platform. However, the participants exhibited fewer social knowledge construction behaviors than they did in the text-based online discussion board.
KW - Online discussion board
KW - Social knowledge construction
KW - Social presence
KW - VoiceThread
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85114016368
U2 - 10.1007/s10639-021-10716-8
DO - 10.1007/s10639-021-10716-8
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:85114016368
SN - 1360-2357
VL - 27
SP - 2751
EP - 2769
JO - Education and Information Technologies
JF - Education and Information Technologies
IS - 2
ER -