John Ongito

Broschiertes Buch

Transformative learning process in online discussion forums

Engaging in Meaning Making and Generation of Knowledge within the Online Discussion Environments

Beschreibung

Best practice in use of these online discussion environments requires students to engage each other at higher levels of thinking and not restrict themselves to recalling or reporting facts. This study investigated learners perception of the quality of their contribution to their class online discussions. The author used transformative learning theory as the framework to facilitate the investigation and description of the quality of the learners contribution in their online discussion forum. The significant of transformative learning is that it mainly draws focus on learning as a process in generation of knowledge. Inconsistent with previous studies proposing a four-dimensional construct, the finding of this study was that participants of online discussion forum perceive transformative learning as a two-dimensional construct. The study indicated that online learners engagement in higher level learning is not a function of gender or year in college class-level. In view of learners gender it seems that gender related pattern of conversations in online discussions do not necessarily affect learners capacity to engage in high-level. The main factors supporting meaning making and

Autor

John Ongito is a PhD. holder from Ohio University, USA. His research interest is in instructional design; integration of information and communication technologies in instruction and learning; e-government; system dynamics and international relations. He has a masters degree in international affairs and worked with various non-profit organizations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 255g
• ISBN-13: 9783659142093
• ISBN-10: 3659142093
• Artikelnr.: 35942955