Soumis par Thoward le 26 avril 2010 - 11:54am
2010-05-05 13:00
2010-05-05 14:00
Canada/Eastern

Dear CNIE Member,

We would like to invite you to the next presentation in our series of free CIDER sessions. This session features a presentation and discussion with Geoffrey Roulet, Queen's University.

Title: Message Interactions in Online Asynchronous Discussions: The Problem of Being “Too Nice”

Much research concerning asynchronous online discussion reports quantitative data such as frequency of posting, time online, and number of characters or words. To effectively understand online discourse within education environments we need to go beyond such measures and study the interactions between messages and how these interactions contribute to the construction of collective knowledge. Complexity science suggests that the emergence of new group understandings requires both redundancy (agreement) and divergence (disagreement) in the interactions between contributed ideas. Studies, focusing on graduate course asynchronous discussions spaced almost 20 years apart, and employing a coding system developed from Fisher’s interact system model (ISM) have shown a lack of messages expressing explicit disagreement. Online discussions, with their limited channels for mutual social support, appear to encourage a student tendency towards being “too nice”. Course participants camouflage disagreements in ambiguous postings that, while avoiding potential offence, do not effectively contribute to the progress of debate.

When: Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 11am – 12pm Mountain Time (Edmonton)

Where: Online via Elluminate at: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.8B71B60F2931D029AC3837DC06B70D

Pre-Configuration:
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