Metacognition is a required cognitive ability to achieve deep and meaningful learning that
must be viewed from both an individual and social perspective. Recently, the transition from …

This chapter proposes that, as a method which has engaged with interaction in other
contexts, conversation analysis (CA) should be used to analyze electronic interactions. The …

This study examines instructor strategies for designing and participating in online
discussions and how these strategies influence their students' participation and course …

Extending past research showing that regulative activities (metacognitive and relational) can
aid learning, this study tests whether sequences of cognitive, metacognitive and relational …

From social media and massive open online courses (MOOCs) to mobile apps and
discussion forums, online talk is being harnessed by people in a variety of fields who are …

More and more students are learning via online academic discussions, posting messages in
an attempt to discuss their learning problems. However, many messages do not receive …

Teachers can reflect on and analyze their classroom discourse to inform their instructional
practice. When teachers try to do so however, they often face analytic difficulties, which …

The present study aims to explore the behavioral patterns of the social knowledge
construction process and the online searching behaviors in a collaborative problem solving …

Disagreements are integral to fruitful team collaboration but have rarely been studied within
actual team interactions. We develop a temporal account of how disagreement episodes …

This study examines how student and instructor participation in online discussions impacts
students' course performance. The context for the study is university introductory online …