Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance Education
In this paper we present a case study of a self-paced university course that was originally designed to support independent, self-paced study at distance. We developed a social media intervention, in design-based research terms, that allows these independent students to contribute archived content...
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In this paper we present a case study of a self-paced university course that was originally designed to support independent, self-paced study at distance. We developed a social media intervention, in design-based research terms, that allows these independent students to contribute archived content to enhance the course, to engage in discussions with other students and to share as little or as much personal information with each other as they wished. We describe the learning design for the intervention and present survey data of student and tutor perception of value and content analysis of the archived contributions. The results indicate that the intervention was positively received by tutors and by the majority (but not all) students and that the archive created by the students’ contributions was adding value to the course. We conclude that the intervention was a modest, yet manageable example of a learning enhancement to a traditional cognitive-behavioral, course that has positive impact and potential with little negative impact on workload.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1e251ed5ed94a318630a20ede3c7a0f2023-11-17T10:21:01ZengInternational Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)Open Praxis1369-99972304-070X2015-01-0171Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance EducationTerry Anderson0Lorne Upton1Jon Dron2Judi Malone3Bruno Poelhuber4Athabasca UniversityAthabasca UniversityAthabasca UniversityAthabasca UniversityUniversité de Montréal In this paper we present a case study of a self-paced university course that was originally designed to support independent, self-paced study at distance. We developed a social media intervention, in design-based research terms, that allows these independent students to contribute archived content to enhance the course, to engage in discussions with other students and to share as little or as much personal information with each other as they wished. We describe the learning design for the intervention and present survey data of student and tutor perception of value and content analysis of the archived contributions. The results indicate that the intervention was positively received by tutors and by the majority (but not all) students and that the archive created by the students’ contributions was adding value to the course. We conclude that the intervention was a modest, yet manageable example of a learning enhancement to a traditional cognitive-behavioral, course that has positive impact and potential with little negative impact on workload. https://account.openpraxis.org/index.php/up-j-op/article/view/314Social Networksblogsself-paced studyonline educationweb 2.0enhanced learning |
| spellingShingle | Terry Anderson Lorne Upton Jon Dron Judi Malone Bruno Poelhuber Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance Education Open Praxis Social Networks blogs self-paced study online education web 2.0 enhanced learning |
| title | Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance Education |
| title_full | Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance Education |
| title_fullStr | Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance Education |
| title_short | Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance Education |
| title_sort | social interaction in self paced distance education |
| topic | Social Networks blogs self-paced study online education web 2.0 enhanced learning |
| url | https://account.openpraxis.org/index.php/up-j-op/article/view/314 |
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