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  Principle Name: Enable multiple ways to participate in online discussions            
  Created by: Editorial Board
  Last change by Editorial Board at 2008-07-31 04:11:28
  
Images of connected features:
 
Personally-Seeded Discussions
 
TAPPED IN uses familiar academic setting
 
Meshing Perceptual and Conceptual Ideas in eSTEP
 
Principle Maker

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Meta-Principles connections:
  • Help Students Learn from Each Other
    • Features connections:
  • Personally-Seeded Discussions
  • TAPPED IN uses familiar academic setting
  • Meshing Perceptual and Conceptual Ideas in eSTEP
  • Threaded forum to support interaction between teachers (in CASES)
  • Principle Maker


    • Description:
    Formats that stimulate discussion with seed comments invite some participants to contribute. Offering opportunities to participate anonymously engages some learners and seems to reduce the anxiety of all participants even those who never take advantage of the feature (Hsi, 1997).
    Multiple formats for on-line discussions also increase the likelihood that all the participants will find an effective format for their ideas. Often students lurk behind the scenes rather than contributing in a large on-line discussion. However, when students must express an opinion prior to reading comments from others, they often discover their voice.By offering multiple discussion formats, designers increase the ways into the discussion for individuals.
    Theoretical background: 

    References (Off-line):
    Linn, M. C., & Hsi, S., 2000. Computers, Teachers, Peers: Science Learning Partners. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
    References (Online):
    http://www.internetscienceeducation.org/chapter13.html
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