Developing Learning Communities

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Author(s): Pawan Jain (Fort Hays State University, Hays, USA)and Smita Jain (University of Wyoming, Hays, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 15
Source title: Instructional Design: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-503-2.ch204

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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This study concerns the design and development of online instruction and specifically targets interaction and communication between online learners. Facilitating appropriate and meaningful interactions in designing instruction is a major goal for anyone developing an online class. The guiding question of the study was: how do the instructional design elements and discipline area impact the quantity of learner-learner interactions? The data for this study came from the online courses offered at one of the major Rocky Mountain University. The research subjects and courses were taken from the College of Education, College of Business, College of Arts and Sciences and College of Health Sciences. Forty graduate online classes, 10 from each college, were analyzed. The findings of this study suggest that the interactivity in an online class depends on group size, grade weight for discussion, use of web 2.0 technologies and multimedia and the discipline it belongs to.

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