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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"online discussions"”.
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Student Partisan Identity and Online Discussions
… While political partisanship looms large over discussions of the national political climate’s influence on schools and classrooms, very little work exists that directly examines the effects of high school students’ political beliefs. Prior research on adults indicates that political partisans …
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Literature circles: in class and online discussions
… not only in the classroom face to face but online as well through a discussion board. Students read leveled, historical fiction novels pertaining to a theme of Native Americans. It was concluded that literature circles online and face to face, provided effective forums for student engagement …
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The Effects of Online Discussions on Student Preparedness and Quiz Scores
… mixed methods study investigated the effects of online discussions on student preparedness for chapter quizzes and quiz scores. Surveys, journal prompts, and paired t-tests, were used to determine student preparedness, frequency of participation in face-to-face classroom discussions, and a …
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Promoting Civility in Online Discussions: A Study of the Intelligent Conversation Forum
<p>Discussions on Internet forums show a higher tendency towards incivility than those conducted in person. This is partially caused by the anonymity of the web; therefore, some have suggested that the solution is requiring website commenters to provide their real names. There are many benefits to …
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Learner involvement in discourse : a contextualised discourse analysis of undergraduate online discussions
The study analyzes the discourse from online discussions in a Language and Communication Economics course at the University of Cape Town. The study critiques claims made by several researchers in Computer Mediated Communication that CMC as mode of Communication enhances interaction and produces …
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Utilization of online discussions to enhance students' engagement with William Golding's "Lord of The Flies"
… examining the impact of collaborative online discussions (ODF) via Facebook Messenger on students’ engagement with the literary text through examining their test performance, journal responses and attitudes. In the study, 45 undergraduate students from the English department/College of …
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Role of Peer Designed and Moderated Case Studies on Student Motivation in Asynchronous Online Discussions
Asynchronous online discussion is one of the most common methods for course content discussion in online, hybrid and sometimes face to face courses. Learner participation in these discussions has been found to be the key to make this method a success. Therefore, student participation has been one …
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Structuring asynchronous online discussion groups : the impact of role-supported student facilitation
… role-supported, student-facilitation strategy on online discussions from multiple dimensions: participation, interaction, levels of knowledge construction and cognition, as well as the impact of each role. All 13 graduate students who enrolled in a master's-level online course participated in this …
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Argumentation Stance Polarity and Intensity Prediction and its Application for Argumentation Polarization Modeling and Diverse Social Connection Recommendation
… and allow for informative analysis of the discussions. Dr. Liu’s research group has designed and implemented a unique platform called the Intelligent Cyber Argumentation System (ICAS). ICAS structures its discussions into a weighted cyber argumentation graph, which describes the …
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Teaching Ethics in the Information Systems Curriculum
… ethics grid created by the instructor, and online discussions in WebCT. The students were surveyed at the end of the semester as to the effectiveness of the ethics instruction, and the quantitative results along with a qualitative data analysis of their online discussions and SDLC-Ethics …
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Communicating Climate Change In Internet Discussion Fora: Processes and Implications
… era requires new strategies that incorporate online communication. The rapid growth of new media and widespread use of the internet has marked everyday lifestyles in modern society. Information on a wide range of social issues, including climate change, is disseminated and debated through …
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The Power Fantastic: How Genre Expectations Mediate Authority
… descriptive discourse analysis on collected online discussions from fan spaces concerning the fantasy genre and matters related to fantasy. In this way, I construct an image of the fantasy genre, and genre in general, as a multimodal space in which material freely passes between traditional …
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Teacher Education ICT Appropriation Model TEAM: A Model for ICT Appropriation in Early Childhood Initial Teacher Education
… cohorts of student teachers who were engaged in online discussions in the course of their ITE studies. Thirty-three practising early childhood teachers participated in semi-structured interviews. The online discussions and the interviews provided the material for analysis. Analysis took the form …
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Understanding Online Trolling Exposure's Impact on Purchase Intention: The Case of the Xbox Tax
Online discourse about video game platforms has become more polarized, with accusations of bias and favoritism – often called the “Xbox Tax” – influencing consumer perceptions before purchasing. Although similar patterns of incivility have been widely studied in politics, there is limited research …
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Argument mining with informal text
The rapid growth of online discussions has led to a wealth of user-generated text, rich in arguments and diverse in nature. However, the complexity of these informal arguments presents a challenge for argument mining. Argument mining is the task of automatically analysing arguments, such that the …
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Higher-order thinking in synchronous online discussion
… skills in COMP and TCOM students’ synchronous online discussion, where higher-order thinking skills were measured in students’ writing throughout a dynamic process as well as from a final product. Using the revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in English Composition (COMP) and …
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Using Vignettes to Develop Higher-Order Thinking and Academic Achievement in Adult Learners in an Online Environment
… of the Generative Learning Model in a hybrid online course. The Generative Learning Model, which consists of five main components: attention, motivation, knowledge, generation, and metacognition (Wittrock, 2000) was incorporated when requiring students to answer teacher-generated vignettes and …
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Nota Bene V2 - Understanding and Implementing Methods for Synchronous and Collaborative Learning
… and receive feedback. Nota Bene (NB) is an online learning and annotation tool that allows students in a course to annotate web documents to foster online discussions. With the current version of NB that relies only on asynchronous annotations, we have decided to add synchronous features to …
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Cross-cultural collaboration via message board for cultural understanding and language learning
… US via a message board. Through five weeks of online discussions, students in both groups changed their perspectives of the target culture. Some students also gained better insights and understanding of their own culture. Even though the EFL students didn't participate as actively as the US …
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Enhancing Online Collaborative Learning: Designs for Effective In-Situ Discussion and Engagement in Large-Scale Learning Environments
The challenge of scaling online discussions in education persists, with many platforms struggling to maintain meaningful engagement and effective moderation as course sizes increase. This often results in diminished discourse quality, making it difficult for students to identify relevant threads …
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