The relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 49-72

  Gorsky, Paul ^a   Caspi, Avner ^a   Antonovsky, Avishai ^a   Blau, Ina ^a   Mansur, Asmahan ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Academic disciplines; Asynchronous forums; Community of inquiry model; Dialogic behavior; Disciplinary differences; Virtual learning community

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956276482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v11i2.820     Document Type: Article

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