Online discussion processes: Effects of earlier messages' evaluations, knowledge content, social cues and personal information on later messages

Computers and Education

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 678-692

  Chen, Gaowei ^a   Chiu, Ming Ming ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication

Indexed keywords

BULLETIN BOARDS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MESSAGE PASSING;

COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE CONTENT;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 38649118881     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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