TY - GEN
T1 - Initial validation of "listening" behavior typologies for online discussions using microanalytic case studies
AU - Wise, Alyssa Friend
AU - Hsiao, Ying Ting
AU - Marbouti, Farshid
AU - Speer, Jennifer
AU - Perera, Nishan
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Collaborative participation in online discussions requires interacting with the ideas posted by others, yet many students do so ineffectually. This study conceptualizes these actions as online "listening" behaviors and proposes six prototypical behavioral patterns. To test these prototypes, microanalytic case studies were conducted. Five cases with distinct listening profiles are described: "Gigi", showed a content coverage approach, viewing all her classmates' posts but not drawing on them in her own; "Stephanie", showed an interactive approach, focusing on a smaller number of posts, but building on them in her contributions. "Ron" showed a targeted approach, focusing on particular kinds of posts in the discussion and disregarding the rest; "Darren" showed a social coverage approach to listening, briefly scanning many posts and acknowledging his classmate's contributions in a conversational tone; and "Julie", showed a disregard for listening, ignoring the majority of the posts in the discussion. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
AB - Collaborative participation in online discussions requires interacting with the ideas posted by others, yet many students do so ineffectually. This study conceptualizes these actions as online "listening" behaviors and proposes six prototypical behavioral patterns. To test these prototypes, microanalytic case studies were conducted. Five cases with distinct listening profiles are described: "Gigi", showed a content coverage approach, viewing all her classmates' posts but not drawing on them in her own; "Stephanie", showed an interactive approach, focusing on a smaller number of posts, but building on them in her contributions. "Ron" showed a targeted approach, focusing on particular kinds of posts in the discussion and disregarding the rest; "Darren" showed a social coverage approach to listening, briefly scanning many posts and acknowledging his classmate's contributions in a conversational tone; and "Julie", showed a disregard for listening, ignoring the majority of the posts in the discussion. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84872948674
SN - 9780578106410
T3 - 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Future of Learning, ICLS 2012 - Proceedings
SP - 56
EP - 63
BT - 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
T2 - 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Future of Learning, ICLS 2012
Y2 - 2 July 2012 through 6 July 2012
ER -