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Creating Social Presence Through Online Discussion Forums
Ardelle Pate; Sharon Smaldino
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 2636–2651
Working within the parameters of an online graduate course, this paper deals with the interactions within required academic discussion forums, optional academic discussions forums, and an optional non-academic social discussion forum. As research...
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Questioning the Necessity of Nonacademic Social Discussion Forums within Online Courses
Ardelle Pate; Sharon Smaldino; Hayley J. Mayall; Lara Luetkehans
Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 10, No. 1 (2009) pp. 1–8
Within the online environment, social interactivity is a necessity to the formation of knowledge. Learning, in order to be truly effective, must embody a social element that nurtures an individual through the multi-intelligences of a group while it...