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An interactive online course: a collaborative design model (2003)
| Venue: | Educational Technology Research and Development |
| Citations: | 19 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Moallem03aninteractive,
author = {El Mahnaz Moallem},
title = {An interactive online course: a collaborative design model},
journal = {Educational Technology Research and Development},
year = {2003},
pages = {85--103}
}
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to describe the evaluation results of using an interactive design modelfor the development of an online course. Specfically, it examines: (a) how an interactive design model was used to develop collaborative and cooperative learning activities; (b) how activities were structured to promote the level and quality of communications among students, as peers, and between students and the instructors; and (c) how students responded to such interactive design model. The paper also provides information about the delivery process and describes what happened when this interactive model was fully implemented and used. O As the number of Internet-based courses in-creases and distance learning programs grow in popularity, educators raise important questions about the quality of these courses and programs (Muirhead, 2000, 2001). One of the concerms is the level of interactivity (communication, par-ticipation, and feedback) between students and between teachers and their students (LaRose & Whitten, 1999; McNabb, 1994; Sherry, 1996). As Foshay and Bergeron (2000) observed, there is a big difference between being able to distribute information with the Internet and being able to teach with the Internet. While learning is ul-timately an individual enterprise, the support of a group with a common learning objective can produce a synergistic facilitation of learning by each member of that group. Nonetheless, the social dimension of learning in online courses or Internet-based instruction has received little attention. Many educators ad-vocating distance learning believe that interac-tivity is a vital element in the educational
Keyphrases
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