The Quality of Online Discussion Reported by Graduate Students

Jianxia Du; Jianzhong Xu

Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 11, No. 1 (2010) pp. 13–24

This study examined online group discussion from students' perspectives to determine what characteristics students identify as meaningful to their online learning. Participants were 142 graduate students in the Southeast. The multiple regression...

Help Seeking in Online Collaborative Groupwork: A Multilevel Analysis

Jianxia Du; Jianzhong Xu; Xitao Fan

Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 24, No. 3 (2015) pp. 321–337

This study examined predictive models for students' help seeking in the context of online collaborative groupwork. Results from multilevel analysis revealed that most of the variance in help seeking was at the individual student level, and multiple...

Individual and group-level factors for students' emotion management in online collaborative groupwork

Jianzhong Xu; Jianxia Du; Xitao Fan

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 19, No. 1 (October 2013) pp. 1–9

The current study examines empirical models of students' emotion management in online collaborative groupwork. Student- and group-level predictors of emotion management in groupwork were analyzed in a survey of 298 graduate students from 86 online...

Language: English

Students' Groupwork Management in Online Collaborative Learning Environments

Jianzhong Xu; Jianxia Du; Xitao Fan

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 18, No. 2 pp. 195–205

The present study investigates empirical models of groupwork management in online collaborative learning environments, based on the data from 298 students (86 groups) in United States. Data revealed that, at the group level, groupwork management was ...

Online collaborative learning activities: The perspectives of African American female students

Jianxia Du; Xun Ge; Jianzhong Xu

Computers & Education Vol. 82, No. 1 (2015) pp. 152–161

This exploratory study examined the perspectives of African American female students toward online collaborative learning. The participants were nine African American female graduate students in an online multimedia instructional design course in...

Language: English

Emotion Management in Online Groupwork Reported by Chinese Students

Jianzhong Xu; Jianxia Du; Xitao Fan

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 62, No. 6 (December 2014) pp. 795–819

Emotion and emotion regulation are increasingly viewed as critical issues in online learning environments. Online collaborative environments in particular create novel challenges for emotion regulation. Few studies, however, have focused on a range...

Online Collaborative Learning and Communication Media

Byron Havard; Jianxia Du; Jianzhong Xu

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 19, No. 1 (January 2008) pp. 37–50

The purpose of this study is to examine the dynamics of online collaborative learning and communication media regarding team projects. Media richness and social presence theories are well-accepted rational theories that explain media choices and...

Topics: Adults, Learning Management Systems, Networking Technologies, Communication, Collaboration, eLearning, Computers, Interaction, Distance Education, Educational Technology

“Finding our time”: Predicting students' time management in online collaborative groupwork

Jianzhong Xu; Jianxia Du; Xitao Fan

Computers & Education Vol. 69, No. 1 (November 2013) pp. 139–147

The aim of this study is to propose and empirically examine multilevel models of students' time management in online collaborative groupwork. Student- and group-level predictors of groupwork time management were analyzed in a survey of 204 graduate...

Language: English

Investigating Factors That Influence Students' Management of Study Environment in Online Collaborative Groupwork

Jianxia Du; Jianzhong Xu; Xitao Fan

Research Papers in Education Vol. 30, No. 4 (2015) pp. 451–468

The present study examines empirical models of students' management of the learning environment in the context of online collaborative groupwork. Such environment management is an important component of students' overall self-regulated learning...

Group Trust, Communication Media, and Interactivity: Toward an Integrated Model of Online Collaborative Learning

Jianxia Du; Chuang Wang; Mingming Zhou; Jianzhong Xu; Xitao Fan; Saosan Lei

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 26, No. 2 (2018) pp. 273–286

The present investigation examines the multidimensional relationships among several critical components in online collaborative learning, including group trust, communication media, and interactivity. Four hundred eleven university students from 103 ...