Promoting and Diagnosing Collaborative Knowledge Building in Web-based Learning: In Search of the Analytical Unit

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Sorensen, E.K. & Takle, E. (2002). Promoting and Diagnosing Collaborative Knowledge Building in Web-based Learning: In Search of the Analytical Unit. In P. Barker & S. Rebelsky (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2002 (pp. 1838-1839). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/10201.

Conference Information

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2002
Denver, Colorado, USA2002
  Philip Barker & Samuel Rebelsky
AACE

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Authors

Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Aalborg University, Denmark, Denmark; Eugene Takle, Iowa State University, USA

Abstract

This paper is a continuation of a former study of the learning quality of online dialogues. It contains two central parts. First, the paper establishes a theoretical framework for understanding and identifying the proper analytical unit of analysis of collaborative knowledge building dialogues unfolding in online learning communities of practice. It suggests the unit of a language games as suited for a learning perspective which captures netbased collaborative learning as a process evolving in online communities of practice. The paper concludes with a description of some possible modifications to the Global Change course that will allow us to examine in a systematic way the use of an alternative analytical unit.

Keywords

• Change
• Collaboration

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