Social engagement in an online community of inquiry

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 711-732

  Waters, James ^a   Gasson, Susan ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Community of inquiry; Online learning; Social constructivism; Social engagement

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMMUNITY OF INQUIRY; ONLINE LEARNING; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM; SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84870203029     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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