TY - CHAP

T1 - Process Analysis of Grounding Activities in Net-Based Cooperative Learning

AU - Oehl, Michael

AU - Pfister, Hans-Rüdiger

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - A growing body of research shows that cooperation scripts can be beneficial for online learning processes of groups. What we call a learning protocol is an implementation of a special variant of cooperation scripts to support synchronous chat-based learning discourses. Learners are provided with a set of features such as referencing and typing contributions, which can be optionally employed if learners consider it to be advantageous. Theoretically, these functionalities can be regarded as grounding activities which participants apply to ground the ongoing discourse. Motivational focus and type of task were experimentally examined with respect to their impact on the use of such grounding activities. A process model of these cognitive processes leading to grounding activities is proposed. Results show that, as hypothesized, a motivational focus on the group increases the likelihood of grounding activities, but, unexpectedly, the task of problem solving decreases grounding activities.

AB - A growing body of research shows that cooperation scripts can be beneficial for online learning processes of groups. What we call a learning protocol is an implementation of a special variant of cooperation scripts to support synchronous chat-based learning discourses. Learners are provided with a set of features such as referencing and typing contributions, which can be optionally employed if learners consider it to be advantageous. Theoretically, these functionalities can be regarded as grounding activities which participants apply to ground the ongoing discourse. Motivational focus and type of task were experimentally examined with respect to their impact on the use of such grounding activities. A process model of these cognitive processes leading to grounding activities is proposed. Results show that, as hypothesized, a motivational focus on the group increases the likelihood of grounding activities, but, unexpectedly, the task of problem solving decreases grounding activities.

KW - Business psychology

UR - http://www.editlib.org/p/24046/

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 1-880094-60-6

SN - 978-1-880094-60-0

SP - 2258

EP - 2263

BT - Proceedings of the E-Learn 2006

A2 - Reeves, T. C.

A2 - Yamashita, S. F.

PB - Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

CY - Honolulu

T2 - Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education - 2006

Y2 - 13 October 2006 through 17 October 2006

ER -