Improvable objects and attached dialogue: New literacy practices employed by learners to build knowledge together in asynchronous settings

Asynchronous online dialogue offers advantages to learners, but has appeared to involve only limited use of new literacy practices. To investigate this, a multimodal approach was applied to asynchronous dialogue. The study analysed the online discussions of small groups of university students as the...

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Main Authors: Rebecca Ferguson, Denise Whitelock, Karen Littleton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Digital Culture & Education (DCE) 2010-05-01
Series:Digital Culture & Education
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Online Access:http://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ferguson_dce_1033_2010.pdf