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Record W1949799969

Building and Maintaining Community in Cohort-Based Online Learning

2005· article· en· W1949799969 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Dianne Conrad

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational journal of e-learning & distance education · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicOnline and Blended Learning
Canadian institutionsAthabasca University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychologyHumanitiesFocus groupSense of communitySociologyPedagogySocial psychologyArtAnthropology
DOInot available

Abstract

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In a multi-year study of a group of learners engaged in online graduate study, I explored the development of learners’ sense of community using a variety of data-gathering instruments. An initial questionnaire established learners’ pre-program perceptions of online learning and the notion of community; subsequent questionnaires, interviews, and a focus group monitored developments in learners’ relationships with each other and in their sense of community. The longitudinal nature of this study afforded a rich and sustained investigation into the nature of community as it was experienced by one group of learners. Findings revealed that learners’ perceptions of community and online learning shifted away from technical considerations and toward affective considerations; that learners took responsibility, and credit, for the creation and maintenance of their sense of community; and that the existence of robust community did not deflect learners from valuing face-to-face contact with cohort members. Dans une étude pluriannuelle d’un groupe d’étudiants engagés dans des études de troisième cycle en ligne, j’ai exploré le développement du sens de la communauté des étudiants, en utilisant une variété d’instruments de cueillette de données. Le questionnaire initial a établi les perceptions préprogramme de l’apprentissage en ligne et la notion de communauté. Des questionnaires et interviews subséquents, ainsi qu’un groupe de discussion, ont examiné les développements dans les relations des étudiants entre eux et dans leur sens communautaire. La nature longitudinale de cette étude a résulté en une enquete riche et soutenue de la nature de la communauté, telle qu’expérimentée par un groupe d’étudiants. Les découvertes ont révélé que les perceptions des étudiants de la communauté et de l’apprentissage en ligne se sont éloignées des considérations techniques et vers les considérations affectives; que les étudiants ont accepté des responsabilités, et ont été crédités de la création et du maintien de leur sens communautaire, et que l’existence de communautés robustes n’empechait pas les étudiants de donner une valeur au contact direct avec les membres de la cohorte.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.017
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.055

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.005
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0020.007
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.367
Teacher spread0.350 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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