Connecting to learn, learning to connect: Thinking together in asynchronous forum discussion

Asynchronous Online Discussion Forum: A Key to Enhancing Students’ Writing Ability and Attitudes in Iran

This paper focuses on the impact of an asynchronous online discussion forum on the development of students’ ability in and attitudes toward writing in English. Two groups of third-year students (N = 60) majoring in English were assigned to two treatment and control groups, each receiving different types of feedback. Students in the treatment group were required to participate ...

Learning to learn together with CSCL tools

Using Socratic Questioning to Promote Critical Thinking Skills Through Asynchronous Discussion Forums in Distance Learning Environments

This study investigated the effects of using Socratic questioning to enhance students’ critical thinking (CT) skills in asynchronous discussion forums (ADF) in university-level distance learning courses. The research effort empirically examined two coherent subjects: (a) the efficacy of teaching and modeling Socratic questioning for developing students’ CT skills in ADF and (b) the persistence ...

Learning to Learn Together through Planning, Discussion and Reflection on Microworld-Based Challenges

This demonstration will highlight the pedagogy and functionality of the Metafora system as developed by the end of the second year of the EUfunded (ICT-257872) project. The Metafora system expands the teaching focus beyond domain-specific learning to enable the development of 21st century collaborative competencies necessary to learn in today’s complex, fast-paced environment. These competencie...

Towards Supporting 'Learning To Learn Together' in the Metafora platform

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) has been demonstrated to improve student interaction in complex collaborative learning scenarios. When orchestrated appropriately, it also provides opportunities for learning high-level social learning skills, or “learning to learn together” (L2L2), but these opportunities are often only dealt with implicitly. This paper presents work towards an ...