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Meishar-Tal, Hagit; Gorsky, Paul – Open Learning, 2010
We investigated the collaborative writing actions carried out by 60 Open University of Israel graduate students as they built a wiki glossary of key course concepts. These actions were analysed using a taxonomy of collaborative writing actions (i.e. adding, editing and deleting information) in order to find out what students do and what they do…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Learning Activities, Collaborative Writing, Teaching Methods
Gorsky, Paul; Caspi, Avner; Trumper, Ricardo – Open Learning, 2004
This study investigated the kinds of dialogues utilized by Open University students while studying an intermediate level physics course. Research objectives were twofold: to document what dialogue types, mediated through which resources, were (1) generally utilized by students as they learned; and (2) were specifically utilized by students to…
Descriptors: Physics, Open Universities, Distance Education
Gorsky, Paul; Caspi, Avner; Blau, Ina; Vine, Yodfat; Billet, Amit – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
The goal of this study is to further corroborate a hypothesized population parameter for the frequencies of social presence versus the sum of teaching presence and cognitive presence as defined by the community of inquiry model in higher education asynchronous course forums. This parameter has been found across five variables: academic institution…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Inquiry, Communities of Practice
Gorsky, Paul; Caspi, Avner; Antonovsky, Avishai; Blau, Ina; Mansur, Asmahan – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2010
The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between disciplinary difference (exact and natural sciences versus humanities) and the dialogic behavior that occurred in Open University course forums. Dialogic behavior was measured in terms of students' and instructors' active participation in the forum (posting a message) as well as…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Open Universities, Intellectual Disciplines, Natural Sciences
Gorsky, Paul; Blau, Ina – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
Upon completion of a graduate level course at the Open University of Israel, one instructor received very high student ratings while the other received very low ratings. We utilized this exceptional situation to perform ad hoc analyses of their course forums. The objective of this study was to map the dialogic behavior that occurred and to create…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Online Courses, Foreign Countries, Best Practices