Students’ interactions in online asynchronous discussions in qualitative research methods coursework

Roulston, Kathryn; Halpin, Sean N.

doi:10.1080/13645579.2020.1766773

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“…ELING is an online discussion forum platform that cannot be seen by all students and their classmates in the same room for the organizational development process, especially in the field of learning. The productivity of the learning management system as an online discussion platform is widely seen as a valuable tool in interacting with students and their interactions with learning materials that have been delivered by teachers [30] (Shida et al, 2019). The strategies in this management system to carry out online discussions are varied and there are no limitations on the platform, so students can use it comfortably together with their classmates [31] (Naskar et al, 2021).…”

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Productivity of Learning Management System in Organizational Development by Utilizing Smart Education

Faraasyatul Alam,

Imron,

Timan

et al. 2023

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This study aims to describe the productivity of the learning management system in the context of organizational development by utilizing intelligent education that applies the latest technological innovations. The researcher uses a qualitative method with a descriptive approach, which will be the focus of the research, followed by interviews and observations, and qualitative data analysis such as manipulation and interpretation techniques that are related to a wider range. There are four research results, including (a) Learning management system as a lecture material platform; (b) Learning management system as assignment submission platform; (c) Learning management system as a discussion forum platform; and (d) Learning management system as a college exam platform. Keywords: learning management system, organizational development, smart education, educational management

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Section: Learning Management System As a Discussion Forum Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Productivity of Learning Management System in Organizational Development by Utilizing Smart Education

Faraasyatul Alam,

Imron,

Timan

et al. 2023

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“…Penelitian ini melibatkan siswa sekolah dasar sebagai subjek utama, mengambil pendekatan kualitatif untuk mengumpulkan data melalui observasi, wawancara, dan analisis dokumen (Appleton, 2018;Botelho, 2018;Dahlqvist, 2021;Mansfield, 2023;Roulston, 2021;Shekhar, 2019). Dengan demikian, penelitian ini tidak hanya akan memberikan gambaran mendalam tentang efektivitas metode bermain peran, tetapi juga akan mengungkapkan perubahan yang terjadi pada karakter peduli lingkungan siswa selama proses pembelajaran.…”

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Pengembangan Karakter Peduli Lingkungan Melalui Metode Bermain Peran pada Siswa Sekolah Dasar

Salsabilla

2023

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This study focuses on developing environmental care character through role-playing methods among elementary school students. The method is designed to enhance students' understanding and awareness of environmental issues by integrating role-playing into their curriculum. The research involves elementary school students as the main subjects, employing a qualitative approach to collect data through observation, interviews, and document analysis. The findings indicate that the role-playing method is effective in shaping environmental care character among students, increasing their participation in environmental conservation activities, and enriching their learning experiences. This study contributes to the development of learning strategies that emphasize the formation of environmental care character from an early age, empowering students to become responsible agents of change for the future environment. The research provides a foundation for implementing similar methods in the context of character education at the elementary school level.

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“…Finally, Roulston and Halpin (2020) found that two apparent processes were happening in online discussion forums. First, participants in their study were wary of exerting too much authority even when they were supposed to do so (i.e., holding back when they were to demonstrate that they were able to apply concepts correctly).…”

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“…Adding to the social activities that happen online, Roulston and Halpin (2020) found several interesting interaction patterns that may be relevant to the thesis. In their investigation of students' online asynchronous discussions (which is a similar type of data used in the current study), Roulston and Halpin found students' interaction patterns to fall along a continuum of authoritative expressions of knowledge and expressions of vulnerability.…”

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“…From this conclusion, we can deduce that social interactions and academic content occupy the same level of importance in this study, contrary to Zhang and Lin's (2020) findings. The discrepancies could be attributed to several factors such as the research methodology (the use of questionnaires in Zhang and Lin (2020) and iterative coding of interactions in Roulston and Halpin (2020)) as well as the genres of the activities happening online. This thesis will focus on patterns of interactions between participants by investigating metadiscourse use.…”

Section: Online Learning and Interactionsmentioning

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Reflexive Metadiscourse in Online Academic Discussion Forums

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This study investigates metadiscourse use in online academic discussion forums with the use of Ӓdel’s reflexive model. Metadiscourse markers are linguistic features in spoken and written texts that refer to the author/speaker, the reader/listener, and the evolving text. Reflexive metadiscourse, the focus of the current thesis, is a specific type of metadiscourse where the linguistic features are all discourse internal. This means that the author/speaker, the reader/listener, and the reference text must all be part of the evolving text. The reflexive model offers a set of criteria for the selection of metadiscursive markers that prove to be useful in a study such as this.In the reflexive metadiscourse model, metadiscourse instances satisfy the delimiting strategies set in Ӓdel (2006). In the current study, reference to these reflexive metadiscourse instances are termed simply as “metadiscourse”. If the process of identifying potential metadiscourse is still ongoing, then the instances are termed “potential metadiscourse”. Finally, the term reflexive will be used when an instance is found to be non-metadiscursive, according to the framework of this thesis, subsequently labelled as “non-reflexive metadiscourse”. This is to account for the fact that in other models, such as Hyland’s interpersonal metadiscourse model, some non-reflexive metadiscourse instances are still metadiscursive. For example, evidentials include instances when a speaker is sharing his/her experience in an ongoing text. In the reflexive model, however, such evidentials would not be metadiscursive as the experience occurs outside of the ongoing text and in the writer’s real world.The study involved collecting interactions in online discussion forums from four modules at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and the resultant corpus has over 150,000 words. The reflexive model was adapted for use with this discourse based on a close reading of one module during the pilot study. To analyse the corpus, AntConc was used to electronically search for metadiscourse markers from the pilot study, and from Ӓdel (2006) and Molino (2018) to generate concordance lines. Then these lines were manually read to filter out non-metadiscursive instances. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 undergraduates and postgraduates on their use of online discussion forums for their learning to provide an insider’s perspective on the use of metadiscourse online and to check the categorisations that resulted from the analysis. Some of the categorisations were revised based on the information from the interviews. Finally, quantitative methods were employed for the identification of patterns in metadiscourse use in online discussion forums, specifically their role in constructing relationships among peers and in constructing the self-identity of writers.The results suggest that there were new metadiscourse forms found in this genre of online interactions and some revision to the key concepts in reflexive metadiscourse is perhaps timely and necessary. The results may be influenced by the affordances of online platforms such as change in the intended audience (Hafner, 2018) and the ability to reference other texts intertextually via the use of hyperlinks (Xia, 2020). These affordances have contributed to the changes in the way that writers construct their texts for their readers. In addition, in the current study, the interactions seem also to be influenced by the relationship writers have with their readers outside of the discussion forum (i.e., their relationships in their face-to-face classes and their social relationships outside of the academic settings).Overall, this thesis provides insight into the writing process in crafting main responses and comment posts in online discussion forums using data from both the Discussion corpus and information obtained from the semi-structured interviews. This thesis thus provides valuable methodological, theoretical, and conceptual implications, laying out a foundation for future studies on reflexive metadiscourse in online academic discussion forums, and potentially other discourses in various under-explored settings.

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Students’ interactions in online asynchronous discussions in qualitative research methods coursework

Cited by 5 publications

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Productivity of Learning Management System in Organizational Development by Utilizing Smart Education

Productivity of Learning Management System in Organizational Development by Utilizing Smart Education

Pengembangan Karakter Peduli Lingkungan Melalui Metode Bermain Peran pada Siswa Sekolah Dasar

Reflexive Metadiscourse in Online Academic Discussion Forums

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