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Maximizing the Social Dynamics, Work Processes, and Target Outcomes of Learning Groups Online: A Pre-“Research Design” Exploration

Maximizing the Social Dynamics, Work Processes, and Target Outcomes of Learning Groups Online: A Pre-“Research Design” Exploration

Shalin Hai-Jew
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781799845164|ISBN10: 1799845168|EISBN13: 9781799845171
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4516-4.ch005
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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Maximizing the Social Dynamics, Work Processes, and Target Outcomes of Learning Groups Online: A Pre-“Research Design” Exploration." Building and Maintaining Adult Learning Advantage, edited by Shalin Hai-Jew, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 107-131. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4516-4.ch005

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Hai-Jew, S. (2020). Maximizing the Social Dynamics, Work Processes, and Target Outcomes of Learning Groups Online: A Pre-“Research Design” Exploration. In S. Hai-Jew (Ed.), Building and Maintaining Adult Learning Advantage (pp. 107-131). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4516-4.ch005

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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Maximizing the Social Dynamics, Work Processes, and Target Outcomes of Learning Groups Online: A Pre-“Research Design” Exploration." In Building and Maintaining Adult Learning Advantage, edited by Shalin Hai-Jew, 107-131. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4516-4.ch005

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Abstract

In formal learning in higher education, online learning groups are used to help learners attain various learning objectives in a learning domain and outside that domain. Social learning is set up to benefit the following: enhanced distributed collaboration, intercommunications, co-exploration, co-inquiry, co-design, diverse thinking, critical thinking, and other capabilities. Through a review of the literature and analysis of years of learning management system (LMS) data, this work offers some early observations of potential variables for study (studied individually or in concert) to better understand how to maximize learning groups online (the social dynamics, work processes, and target outcomes), as part of a pre-“research design” exploration. Ultimately, different levers in the design and support of online learning groups are seen to affect their efficacy in various online learning contexts.

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