ERIC Number: EJ1009790
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Apr
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0266-4909
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Investigating Face-to-Face Peer Interaction Patterns in a Collaborative Web Discovery Task: The Bene?ts of a Shared Display
Chung, C-W.; Lee, C-C.; Liu, C-C.
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, v29 n2 p188-206 Apr 2013
Mobile computers are now increasingly applied to facilitate face-to-face collaborative learning. However, the factors affecting face-to-face peer interactions are complex as they involve rich communication media. In particular, non-verbal interactions are necessary to convey critical communication messages in face-to-face communication. Through gathering discourse and non-verbal interaction records, this study explores the peer interactions supported by two collaborative applications: one with mobile computers and the other with shared-display groupware (SDG). The results show that the students tended to interact with each other according to a distributed and an unsocial interaction pattern when using the application with mobile computers. In contrast, the students who learned with the SDG demonstrated a shared interaction pattern, whereby they often jointly focused on and referred to the shared work. The analysis of the students' work further found that a higher level of discussion was generally associated with the shared interaction pattern. The results seem to support SDG as being useful in augmenting face-to-face peer interaction supported by mobile computers. The implications derived from the findings also support the argument that non-verbal interaction records are useful for quantitatively and qualitatively analysing face-to-face peer interactions. (Contains 6 tables and 8 figures.)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Interaction, Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Shared Resources and Services, Internet, Computers, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Laptop Computers, Teamwork, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, Visual Aids
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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