Epistemic cooperation scripts in online learning environments: Fostering learning by reducing uncertainty in discourse?

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 603-622

  Mäkitalo, Kati ^a,b   Weinberger, Armin ^a   Häkkinen, Päivi ^b   Järvelä, Sanna ^c   Fischer, Frank ^a  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Amount of discourse; Collaborative learning; Cooperation script; Information seeking; Online learning environment; Uncertainty reduction theory

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

AMOUNT OF DISCOURSE; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COOPERATION SCRIPT; EPISTEMIC SCRIPT; INFORMATION EXCHANGE; INFORMATION SEEKING; ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION THEORY;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 13244295662     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2004.10.033     Document Type: Article

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