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Ways Of Knowing In A Blended Learning Cohort, Dawn Michele Mcwilliams
Ways Of Knowing In A Blended Learning Cohort, Dawn Michele Mcwilliams
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies: Doctoral Research Projects
The following is a report on the content analysis of threaded discussion boards from three blended learning cohorts. The purpose of the content analysis was to determine whether an individual’s way of knowing (WoK), or epistemology, could be perceived through a content analysis of historical data in the form of online threaded discussion boards. The research question in this content analysis was “What ways of knowing emerge from online discussion threads within a yearlong university cohort?”
The researcher used a priori coding scheme based on the literature surrounding WoK to explore the online threaded discussions of three blended learning cohorts. …
An Exploration Of A Blended Learning Cohort Through Social Network Analysis, Kelley Charlene Bliden
An Exploration Of A Blended Learning Cohort Through Social Network Analysis, Kelley Charlene Bliden
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies: Doctoral Research Projects
The following technical report is a social network analysis of online threaded discussions from three blending learning cohorts. The purpose of this social network analysis was to explore graduate level blended learning cohorts by investigating how the relationships and interactions among individuals shape and affect the overall cohort,to explore the evolution of each cohort overtime,and to investigate facilitator interactions within the blended learning program and how their contributions shaped and affected the network.
The threaded discussions were coded and analyzed based on literature about social network analysis, constructive-developmental theory, holding environments, and transformational learning theory. Eight selected weeks of discussions …