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- Title
Perspectives on the Use of "Partially Anonymous" Discussion Forums in Undergraduate Education Courses.
- Authors
Bowen, G. Michael; Farmer, Robert; Arsenault, Nicole
- Abstract
This paper theorizes issues involved with conflicts between participation in on-line settings and real-world social commitments, such as has recently happened in schools with students using public discussion forums for classes. We problematize how real-world social commitments negatively affect participation in online learning environments frequently used in classrooms. Drawing on interviews with, observations by, and written submissions from our students who participated in "hybrid" courses using an approach where identity was concealed in online discussions from other class participants (but not from the instructors), we discuss implications of this issue for evaluating forum submissions by students. Our analysis uses a cultural-historical activity theory framework to conceptualize implications from this "partially anonymous" forum approach and the resultant changes in participation in the learning environment.
- Subjects
CLASSROOM environment; CLASSROOMS; FORUMS; COMPUTER assisted instruction; EDUCATIONAL technology
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Learning & Technology, 2012, Vol 38, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1499-6677
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21432/T2D30R