Designing Adaptive Interventions for Online Collaborative Modeling
Education and Information Technologies
When to jump in: The role of the instructor in online discussion forums
Computers & Education
Computers in Human Behavior
Investigating cooperation and collaboration in near synchronous computer mediated conferences
Computers & Education - Virtual learning? Selected contributions from the CAL 05 symposium
Computer support for knowledge construction in collaborative learning environments
Computers in Human Behavior
Discussion: Instructional interventions to enhance collaboration in powerful learning environments
Computers in Human Behavior
Learning to argue online: Scripted groups surpass individuals (unscripted groups do not)
Computers in Human Behavior
Guiding students' online complex learning-task behavior through representational scripting
Computers in Human Behavior
Procrastination, participation, and performance in online learning environments
Computers & Education
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
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Moderators play an important role within a computer supported collaborative learning environment, and thus facilitative strategies and communication technology are nowadays used to enhance students' learning. This study proposed facilitative strategies as a guide for students' learning, and explored the influence of these strategies on the students' online synchronous discussion. A total of 331 senior high school students from eight computer classes in northern Taiwan were recruited to participate in this study. They were randomly assigned into an experimental condition, with the moderators' facilitation to complete online learning tasks, and the control condition without moderators' support. To fulfill the goal of the research, four strategies-helping students focus on the main topic, facilitating students' making argumentation, giving students positive feedback, and helping students sustain threaded discussion-were adopted to facilitate the online synchronous discussion in the experimental condition. According to the results of the content analysis, four group discussion patterns were revealed, including collaboration, centralization, partial contribution, and non-interaction. The findings suggest that the moderator helped enhance the collaboration pattern and increase the online participation rate. In addition, it was found that the strategies of helping students focus on the main topic and giving students positive feedback were frequently employed.