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Download full textdel Valle, Rodrigo; Oncu, Semiral; Koksal, Nur Fatma; Kim, Nari; Alford, Paul; Duffy, Thomas M. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
The purpose of this exploratory experimental study was to examine how online cognitive facilitation that promotes cognitive presence, while keeping facilitator's social presence constant, affects student learning and satisfaction in an online community of inquiry. In this context, we explored the following questions: (1) Does online high cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Participant Satisfaction, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication
Peer reviewedMcKinney, Kathleen; Graham-Buxton, Mary – Teaching Sociology, 1993
Asserts that, although many researchers and teachers have written about the use of cooperative, or collaborative, learning groups, their work has focused on small classes. Reports on a study of informal cooperative group assignments used in a large (225 students) college-level Introduction to Sociology class. (CFR)
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Course Evaluation
Smith, Stephen P.; Featherstone, Helen – 1995
The focus in this report is the concept of what it means to "do mathematics" in the context of a group working committee of teachers and researchers committed to reforming mathematics teaching. During a regular meeting of this group of teachers and researchers, the participants explored the mathematical reasoning embedded in one…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
