TY - GEN
T1 - The practice of rationale sharing in virtual group learning activities
T2 - 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011
AU - Xiao, Lu
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - there is lack of understanding of how members prefer to organize and represent the shared rationales. In this paper, I report a classroom study about how group learners used a shared rationale space to articulate and share their rationales. The findings of the investigation show that: group members would brainstorm the ideas and generate rationales to justify the ideas before reading the others' ideas and rationales; the members in general brainstormed all the ideas first and then elaborated the rationales to justify the ideas; and the members grouped the shared rationales according to their authors. These findings suggest that the WYSIWIS model is not applicable to support rationale articulation and generation in a virtual group workspace. Instead, an adaptive intelligent group user interface is needed to facilitate the involved associative thinking and deeper thinking processes.
AB - there is lack of understanding of how members prefer to organize and represent the shared rationales. In this paper, I report a classroom study about how group learners used a shared rationale space to articulate and share their rationales. The findings of the investigation show that: group members would brainstorm the ideas and generate rationales to justify the ideas before reading the others' ideas and rationales; the members in general brainstormed all the ideas first and then elaborated the rationales to justify the ideas; and the members grouped the shared rationales according to their authors. These findings suggest that the WYSIWIS model is not applicable to support rationale articulation and generation in a virtual group workspace. Instead, an adaptive intelligent group user interface is needed to facilitate the involved associative thinking and deeper thinking processes.
KW - Associative thinking
KW - CSCL
KW - Rationale sharing
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U2 - 10.1109/ICALT.2011.160
DO - 10.1109/ICALT.2011.160
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052765045
SN - 9780769543468
T3 - Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011
SP - 521
EP - 523
BT - Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011
Y2 - 6 July 2011 through 8 July 2011
ER -