Web-based Collaborative Learning: Students’ Feedback on the Communication and Interaction Processes
The emergences of information technologies and World Wide Web have broadened the horizon of innovative teaching and learning, and have pushed the bar on web-based collaborative learning. This includes expanding the social interaction and engagement between the students with more online communic...
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IEEE
2013
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/179/ |
| Summary: | The emergences of information technologies and
World Wide Web have broadened the horizon of innovative
teaching and learning, and have pushed the bar on web-based
collaborative learning. This includes expanding the social
interaction and engagement between the students with more
online communication and collaborative tools. Hence it
established the importance of analyzing the processes in social
interaction and online communication, and further developed
the framework to evaluate the design of this learning
environment which can sustain and support web-based
collaborative learning. Many learning approaches today have
embedded collaborative learning activities and therefore there
is a need to investigate the effectiveness of such collaborations
with respect to student communication and interactions.
This study presents students’ feedback on their interaction
and communication process when collaborating on a
multimedia project. The Communicative Model of
Collaborative Learning (CMCL) was used to analyze their
feedback, obtained from open-ended questions and student
interviews. The results showed that the CMCL was a useful tool
for assessing the linguistic interactions between students in this
strategy of web-mediated learning. The results showed positive
encouragement for using the CMCL to further improve student
communication and interaction analysis in web-based
collaborative learning environments. |
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