Students’ Engagement and Peer Interaction in On-Line Academic Writing Through a Course Blog

Jimoyiannis, Athanassios; Tsiotakis, Panagiotis

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20954-4_8

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“…Although blogs are not considered 'real-life,' the multidirectional interactions among student bloggers, teachers and anyone else happen to view the blog posts are meaningful, because "they make sense for learners who are fully engaged in the writing process and in the interactions" [13]. In their recent study, Jimoyiannis and Tsiotakis [4] concluded that the enhanced opportunities for managing individual work, peer feedback and interaction, supportive dialogue and reflection, sharing ideas, critical thinking and metacognition, all positively influence the students' writing quality.…”

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“…Up to now, a multitude of studies worldwide have been conducted on the integration of blogs, an application of web 2.0, into language teaching and learning. Specifically, the positive outcomes of contemporary [1][2][3][4] have strengthened educational practitioners' belief on the use of blogs as a high-yielding tool in foreign language teaching and learning.…”

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Exploring Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions of and Attitudes Towards the use of Blogs for English Writing Skills at a Vietnamese University

Thành¹,

Bao²

2020

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The study aimed at finding out: i) the attitudes of both teachers and students at a Vietnamese university as regards the integration of blogs into English writing classes, and ii) their perceived advantages and difficulties in adopting such a way of teaching and learning. Data was collected in two stages: a preliminary questionnaire survey with 110 students and 12 teachers of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writing, and follow-up interviews with 07 participants, both teachers and students. Findings indicated participants generally held a positive attitude toward the integration of blogs into EFL writing curriculum. Significant benefits in adopting a blogging approach included teachers’ and students’ access to computer and the Internet, their ability to handle blog-related technical issues, and their awareness of the possible benefits of a blog-integrated curriculum. However, the current limited use of blogs for practicing English writing at the institution as well as students’ willingness to post their writings and give feedback on a public page were among the major obstacles. The study was concluded by some important pedagogical implications for the realization of a blog integrated EFL writing curriculum in Vietnam.

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Section: Blogging Fosters Language Learners' Understanding and Personal Growthmentioning

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Exploring Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions of and Attitudes Towards the use of Blogs for English Writing Skills at a Vietnamese University

Thành¹,

Bao²

2020

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Detecting communities using social network analysis in online learning environments: Systematic literature review

Yassine¹,

Kadry²,

Sicilia³

2021

WIREs Data Min & Knowl

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Uncovering community structure has made a significant advancement in explaining, analyzing, and forecasting behaviors and dynamics of networks related to different fields in sociology, criminology, biology, medicine, communication, economics, and academia. Detecting and clustering communities is a powerful step toward identifying the structural properties and the behavioral patterns in social networks. Recently, online learning has been progressively adopted by a lot of educational practices which raise many questions about assessing the learners' engagement, collaboration, and behaviors in the new emerging learning communities. This systematic literature review aims to assess the use of community detection techniques in analyzing the network's structure in online learning environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of the existing research that adopted those techniques with identifying the educational objectives behind their application as well as suggesting possible future research directions. Our analysis covered 65 studies that found in the literature and applied different community discovery techniques on various types of online learning environments to analyze their users' interactions patterns. Our review revealed the potential of this field in improving educational practices and decisions and in utilizing the massive amount of data generated from interacting with those environments. Finally, we highlighted the need to include automated community discovery techniques in online learning environments to facilitate and enhance their use as well as we stressed on the urge for further advance research to uncover a lot of hidden opportunities. This article is categorized under: Algorithmic Development > Statistics Algorithmic Development > Web Mining Application Areas > Education and Learning

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Analysis of Teachers’ Community Activity Within a Connectivist MOOC for Professional Development

Koukis

Tsiotakis

Jimoyiannis

2023

Research on E-Learning and ICT in Education

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Students’ Engagement and Peer Interaction in On-Line Academic Writing Through a Course Blog

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Exploring Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions of and Attitudes Towards the use of Blogs for English Writing Skills at a Vietnamese University

Exploring Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions of and Attitudes Towards the use of Blogs for English Writing Skills at a Vietnamese University

Detecting communities using social network analysis in online learning environments: Systematic literature review

Analysis of Teachers’ Community Activity Within a Connectivist MOOC for Professional Development

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