The relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums
The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between disciplinary difference (exact and natural sciences versus humanities) and the dialogic behavior that occurred in Open University course forums. Dialogic behavior was measured in terms of students’ and instructors’ active particip...
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Athabasca University Press
2010-05-01
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| author | Paul Gorsky Avner Caspi Avishai Antonovsky Ina Blau Asmahan Mansur |
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| description | The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between disciplinary difference (exact and natural sciences versus humanities) and the dialogic behavior that occurred in Open University course forums. Dialogic behavior was measured in terms of students’ and instructors’ active participation in the forum (posting a message) as well as amounts and proportions of “teaching presence,” “cognitive presence,” and “social presence.” We found that active participation in the science forums was much higher than in the humanities forums. We also found a ratio among the three presences that was constant across different academic disciplines, as well as across different group sizes and course types. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d8d8239cc68d4bc3afe5ebd96366730f2022-12-21T23:37:59ZengAthabasca University PressInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning1492-38312010-05-0111210.19173/irrodl.v11i2.820The relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forumsPaul GorskyAvner CaspiAvishai AntonovskyIna BlauAsmahan MansurThe objective of this study was to determine the relationship between disciplinary difference (exact and natural sciences versus humanities) and the dialogic behavior that occurred in Open University course forums. Dialogic behavior was measured in terms of students’ and instructors’ active participation in the forum (posting a message) as well as amounts and proportions of “teaching presence,” “cognitive presence,” and “social presence.” We found that active participation in the science forums was much higher than in the humanities forums. We also found a ratio among the three presences that was constant across different academic disciplines, as well as across different group sizes and course types.http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/820academic disciplinesdisciplinary differencesasynchronous forumsdialogic behaviorcommunity of inquiry modelvirtual learning community |
| spellingShingle | Paul Gorsky Avner Caspi Avishai Antonovsky Ina Blau Asmahan Mansur The relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning academic disciplines disciplinary differences asynchronous forums dialogic behavior community of inquiry model virtual learning community |
| title | The relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums |
| title_full | The relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums |
| title_fullStr | The relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums |
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| title_short | The relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums |
| title_sort | relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums |
| topic | academic disciplines disciplinary differences asynchronous forums dialogic behavior community of inquiry model virtual learning community |
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