Students' use of asynchronous discussions for academic discourse socialization

Distance Education

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-335

  Beckett, Gulbahar H ^a   Amaro Jiménezb, Carla ^b   Beckettc, Kelvin S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c Kaplan University   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic discourse socialization; Asynchronous discussion boards; Community of practice; Graduate student perspectives; Student use of online discussion boards

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957950716     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2010.513956     Document Type: Article

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