Impacts of role assignment and participation in asynchronous discussions in college-level online classes

Internet and Higher Education

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 10-19

  Xie, Kui ^a   Yu, Chien ^b   Bradshaw, Amy C ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous online discussion; Learning analytics; Peer moderation; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS DISCUSSIONS; ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE DISCUSSION; GROUP INTERACTION; LEARNING ANALYTICS; ONLINE COURSE; ONLINE LEARNING ACTIVITIES; PEER MODERATION; ROLE ASSIGNMENT;

E-LEARNING; MODERATORS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84886263259     PISSN: 10967516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iheduc.2013.09.003     Document Type: Article

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