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Disrupting The Discussion : The Story Of Disruptive Students In The Online Classroom, Belle Doyle Cowden
Disrupting The Discussion : The Story Of Disruptive Students In The Online Classroom, Belle Doyle Cowden
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Many online classrooms today are designed based on learner-centered principles. Implicit with this design perspective is the goal to create and facilitate a virtual learning community in which students learn from and share with each other through discussion based computer conferencing. In the current literature, little has been shared on what happens to the online learning community when students behave in a manner deemed challenging, difficult, or disruptive. However, as in the face-to-face classroom, disruptive student behaviors do appear in the online classroom.
The purpose of this study was to investigate how disruptive student behaviors impact the online learning community …