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Online Learning Conversations: Potential, Challenges and Facilitation

Online Learning Conversations: Potential, Challenges and Facilitation

Jakko van der Pol
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781605666549|ISBN10: 1605666548|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616925772|EISBN13: 9781605666556
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-654-9.ch008
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van der Pol, Jakko. "Online Learning Conversations: Potential, Challenges and Facilitation." Information Technology and Constructivism in Higher Education: Progressive Learning Frameworks, edited by Carla R. Payne, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 112-129. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-654-9.ch008

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van der Pol, J. (2009). Online Learning Conversations: Potential, Challenges and Facilitation. In C. Payne (Ed.), Information Technology and Constructivism in Higher Education: Progressive Learning Frameworks (pp. 112-129). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-654-9.ch008

Chicago

van der Pol, Jakko. "Online Learning Conversations: Potential, Challenges and Facilitation." In Information Technology and Constructivism in Higher Education: Progressive Learning Frameworks, edited by Carla R. Payne, 112-129. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-654-9.ch008

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Abstract

This chapter aims to perform a thorough analysis of students’ online learning conversations. Although offering a high potential for collaborative learning, successful online learning conversations are not easy to realize. After discussing the specific challenges of conducting conversations in general, conversations- for-learning and learning conversations online, the author uses this investigation to discuss ways to effectively facilitate them. Van der Pol demonstrates, then, that the context-creating effect of anchored discussion can effectively address some of these difficulties by turning opinion-oriented exchange of ideas into a more meaning-oriented processing of material, while increasing communicative efficiency.

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