The Effectiveness of Collaborative Online Discussion in Higher Education

New Search

Print Abstract

E-mail Abstract

Full Text

Save to My Collections

Export Citation

Lee, Y.h. & Wu, J.Y. (2006). The Effectiveness of Collaborative Online Discussion in Higher Education. In T. Reeves & S. Yamashita (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (pp. 2149-2153). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/24029.

• Share:
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Conference Information

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2006
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
October 2006
ISBN 1-880094-60-6
  Thomas Reeves & Shirley Yamashita
AACE

More Information on ELEARN
Table of Contents

Authors

Yuan-hsuan Lee, Jiun-Yu Wu, Texas A&M University, United States

Abstract

As more and more online discussions are set up, one crucial question for instructors is whether students benefit from these discussion sessions. This paper reviews literature from the research of two forms of online discussion, synchronous and asynchronous, to the examination of its relationship with collaborative learning and knowledge construction in an effort to elicit the effectiveness of a successful online collaborative discussion. It aims to determine the efficacy of online discussion and ascertain its contribution to Web-based instruction as well as in supplement to face-to-face courses. The result shows that despite some constraints, either form of online discussion enhances collaborative learning and that with the use of argumentation, rationale and higher-order thinking, online discussion can promote knowledge construction significantly.

Keywords

• Collaboration

Also Read

• QR Codes: A Quick Response for Education
• Development of a Multimedia Software System for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to South Korean University Students
• Does Using Mobile Device Applications Lead to Learning?
• A Moodle Course: Design and Implementation in English for Academic Purposes Instruction
• Factors influencing Pre-Service teachers’ attitudes towards using a Moodle environment for teaching and learning.
• A Special Passage Through Asia E-Learning
• Emerging Vocabulary Learning: From a Perspective of Activities Facilitated by Mobile Devices
• Integrating Moodle into a Course for Pre- and In-service Teachers
• Moodle: Using Learning Communities to Create an Open Source Course Management System
• Vocabulary Acquisition by Secondary Students: Only an App Away

Tags