参考异步在线讨论中的其他参与者:高等教育背景下的引用模式

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Mario Cal-Varela, Francisco J. Fernández-Polo
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摘要

摘要异步在线讨论作为高等教育中的一种学习工具的有效性在很大程度上取决于参与者创造有凝聚力的社会空间的能力。相互交流信息是显示归属感和团结感的关键方式,有助于巩固学习社区。然而,研究表明,学生们往往无法充分利用在线论坛的这一维度,因为它需要大量参与活动,而且非常耗时。在当前的研究中,我们在一个学期的本科生课程中进行了一系列在线讨论,研究了对以前帖子的引用。被引用的总体频率较低,在885篇被分析的帖子中,略高于一半的帖子至少包含一篇参考文献。虽然这似乎表明,许多参与者认为这项活动几乎没有互动性,但对于那些引用同学名字的人来说,他们更喜欢使用自己的名字,尽管在课程的后半部分,更正式的名字+姓氏模式有所增加,这可能表明他们意识到了这项活动的学术性质。如果可以将相互参考的频率和种类作为衡量异步在线讨论作为一种协作学习工具的成功程度的标准,那么我们的研究结果就需要对任务设计进行深入思考,以确保学生和教师以同样的方式理解他们的目标。
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Referring to other participants in asynchronous online discussions: Citation patterns in a higher education context
Abstract The effectiveness of asynchronous online discussions as a learning tool in higher education critically depends on the participants’ ability to create a cohesive social space. Referring to one another’s messages is a key way to display a sense of affiliation and solidarity, and contribute to the consolidation of the learning community. However, research has shown that students often fail to adequately exploit this dimension of the online forum, as it requires considerable involvement in the activity and is very time-consuming.In the current study, we examined references to previous posts in a set of online discussions held during a one-term undergraduate course. The overall frequency of citations was low, with slightly over half of the 885 analyzed posts containing at least one reference. While this seems to indicate that a large number of participants conceived the activity as hardly interactive, for those who did quote their classmates, the preferred practice was using their first names, although the more formal name+surname pattern increased in the second half of the course, possibly indicating an awareness of the academic character of the activity. If the frequency and kind of mutual references can be taken as a measure of how successful asynchronous online discussions can prove as a collaborative learning tool, our results invite deep reflection regarding task design to ensure that students and instructors understand their goals in the same way.
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Psychology of Language and Communication
Psychology of Language and Communication Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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