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Fixed and Manipulated Temporal Frames: Procedural Analysis of Students’ Perceptions of Electronic Time on the Discussion Board

Fixed and Manipulated Temporal Frames: Procedural Analysis of Students’ Perceptions of Electronic Time on the Discussion Board

Katalin Kabat-Ryan
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 35
ISBN13: 9781466646513|ISBN10: 1466646519|EISBN13: 9781466646520
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4651-3.ch007
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Kabat-Ryan, Katalin. "Fixed and Manipulated Temporal Frames: Procedural Analysis of Students’ Perceptions of Electronic Time on the Discussion Board." Assessment and Evaluation of Time Factors in Online Teaching and Learning, edited by Elena Barbera and Peter Reimann, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 163-197. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4651-3.ch007

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Kabat-Ryan, K. (2014). Fixed and Manipulated Temporal Frames: Procedural Analysis of Students’ Perceptions of Electronic Time on the Discussion Board. In E. Barbera & P. Reimann (Eds.), Assessment and Evaluation of Time Factors in Online Teaching and Learning (pp. 163-197). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4651-3.ch007

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Kabat-Ryan, Katalin. "Fixed and Manipulated Temporal Frames: Procedural Analysis of Students’ Perceptions of Electronic Time on the Discussion Board." In Assessment and Evaluation of Time Factors in Online Teaching and Learning, edited by Elena Barbera and Peter Reimann, 163-197. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4651-3.ch007

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Abstract

The chapter focuses on evaluating the temporal rhythms of written messages on an asynchronous discussion board in a distance learning class, and it provides a blueprint for the analytic process. In order to assess the method, data is drawn from a distance learning course in a graduate institution in the Northeast region of United States. 322 messages written on Blackboard by 41 students were framed by an Aristotelian spatio-temporal terminology (chronos, kairos, chora, and topos). The research identifies different ways to analyze time and points towards the necessity to contextualize it in space/place and content. Mixed methods of analyses are applied: basic descriptive statistical temporal analysis is employed by the use of bar charts, figures, tables; and content analysis (modified version of Practical Inquiry Model) is used for the detection of higher order thinking’s relation to time and space. Finally, the study elaborates on the pedagogical benefits of the analyzed spatio-temporal rhythms through themes such as momentum, dialogic communication, time lags, while making connections between temporal clusters and dialogic communication, critical thinking, and spatial expansion. Students manipulate temporal rhythms, on one hand, they establish their own nonlinear and continuous chronological clusters of time, or on the other hand, they are unwilling to escape imposed temporal structures.

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