Question-Answer Activities in Synchronous Virtual Classrooms in Terms of Interest and Usefulness
<p>Instructors generally convey their face to face habits to synchronous virtual classrooms, but these face to face strategies do not work in these environments. In this sense, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of question type and answer format used in synchronous class...
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| author | Melike Aydemir Engin Kurşun Selçuk Karaman |
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| description | <p>Instructors generally convey their face to face habits to synchronous virtual classrooms, but these face to face strategies do not work in these environments. In this sense, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of question type and answer format used in synchronous class implementations on perceived interest and usefulness. To do this, questions were asked in different ways and answers were requested in different formats in synchronous virtual sessions. The participants consisted of 28 postgraduate students registered in an online criminal justice program at a university located in the North-East part of Turkey. Data was collected in the context of a Research Methods in Security Sciences course during 2012–2013 fall semester. Results showed effects of question type on learner interest, while answer format has an effect on usefulness of online activities. In conclusion, to increase interest in synchronous virtual classrooms by asking questions, instead of closed-ended questions, open-ended questions which everybody can answer should be preferred.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5e8c249bad45421b9be95a95798884022023-03-01T21:21:14ZengInternational Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)Open Praxis1369-99972304-070X2016-01-018191910.5944/openpraxis.8.1.226311Question-Answer Activities in Synchronous Virtual Classrooms in Terms of Interest and UsefulnessMelike Aydemir0Engin Kurşun1Selçuk Karaman2Ataturk UniversityAtaturk UniversityAtaturk University<p>Instructors generally convey their face to face habits to synchronous virtual classrooms, but these face to face strategies do not work in these environments. In this sense, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of question type and answer format used in synchronous class implementations on perceived interest and usefulness. To do this, questions were asked in different ways and answers were requested in different formats in synchronous virtual sessions. The participants consisted of 28 postgraduate students registered in an online criminal justice program at a university located in the North-East part of Turkey. Data was collected in the context of a Research Methods in Security Sciences course during 2012–2013 fall semester. Results showed effects of question type on learner interest, while answer format has an effect on usefulness of online activities. In conclusion, to increase interest in synchronous virtual classrooms by asking questions, instead of closed-ended questions, open-ended questions which everybody can answer should be preferred.</p>https://openpraxis.org/articles/352synchronous communicationvirtual classroomsquestion-answer activitysynchronous web-based coursevideoconferencing |
| spellingShingle | Melike Aydemir Engin Kurşun Selçuk Karaman Question-Answer Activities in Synchronous Virtual Classrooms in Terms of Interest and Usefulness Open Praxis synchronous communication virtual classrooms question-answer activity synchronous web-based course videoconferencing |
| title | Question-Answer Activities in Synchronous Virtual Classrooms in Terms of Interest and Usefulness |
| title_full | Question-Answer Activities in Synchronous Virtual Classrooms in Terms of Interest and Usefulness |
| title_fullStr | Question-Answer Activities in Synchronous Virtual Classrooms in Terms of Interest and Usefulness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Question-Answer Activities in Synchronous Virtual Classrooms in Terms of Interest and Usefulness |
| title_short | Question-Answer Activities in Synchronous Virtual Classrooms in Terms of Interest and Usefulness |
| title_sort | question answer activities in synchronous virtual classrooms in terms of interest and usefulness |
| topic | synchronous communication virtual classrooms question-answer activity synchronous web-based course videoconferencing |
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