- Title
- Confronting the pedagogical challenges of online asynchronous discussion groups
- Creator
- Edmondson, Elizabeth
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/43400
- Identifier
- vital:6010
- Identifier
- ISSN:1447-9494
- Abstract
- This paper argues that online asynchronous discussion groups suffer from inherent pedagogical limitations, in spite of their abilities to provide sites for content focussed discussion and support for students. Discussion groups cannot overcome their structural limitations in constructing question and answer trees because they create end of learning cycle outputs rather than facilitating learning processes. In distance education, online discussion groups suffer an additional pedagogical weakness by constructing student-teacher discussions as semi-public discussions. Their mediated environment contributes implicit ‘veils of uncertainty’ that limit meaningful connectedness between learners and teachers. Developing an awareness of these problems can assist teachers and designers in identifying appropriate supports to student learning.
- Relation
- The International Journal of Learning Vol. 14, no. 12 (2008), p. 101-108
- Rights
- Copyright Common Ground Publishing
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Pedagogy; Learning process; Learning cycle; Discussion groups
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