The effect of social grounding on collaboration in a computer-mediated small group discussion

Internet and Higher Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-46

  Ahern, Terence C ^a   Thomas, Julie A ^b   Tallent Runnels, Mary K ^b   Lan, William Y ^b   Cooper, Sandra ^b   Lu, Xiaoming ^b   Cyrus, Jacqui ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Social coherence; Software engineering; Threaded discussion

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTANCE EDUCATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL COHERENCE; THREADED DISCUSSION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 33644694243     PISSN: 10967516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iheduc.2005.09.008     Document Type: Article

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