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Strengthening Deeper Learning Through Virtual Teams in E-learning: A Synthesis of Determinants and Best Practices

2016· article· en· W2546181404 on OpenAlex
Joyline Makani, Martine Durier-Copp, Deborah Kiceniuk, Alieda Blandford

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational journal of e-learning & distance education · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicKnowledge Management and Sharing
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPopularitySocial learningOpen learningCooperative learningActive learning (machine learning)PsychologyEducational technologyCollaborative learningLearning sciencesPeer learningKnowledge managementPedagogyComputer scienceTeaching methodSocial psychologyArtificial intelligence
DOInot available

Abstract

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Globally, e-learning is gaining popularity as its potential contributions to economic and social development are recognised. However, its full potential has not been realised, as most e-learning practices merely replicate traditional existing teaching methods and have not fully exploited the interactive and social components of peer learning. Recently, there has been an increased focus on learning in higher educational settings, in particular, a focus on the skills and knowledge that reinforce each other and together promote learning (Chow, 2010). In other words research shows that to be successful all students must have access to educational opportunities that foster learning. Virtual teams (VT) are said to foster deeper learning, but have not been empirically studied in the academic sphere, and little is known about their effectiveness as a learning mechanism in e-learning. In this paper the findings of a systemic review and interpretive synthesis of the body of literature on e-learning and VT are presented. The objective of the study was to identify the core skills and knowledge from research that reinforce each other and together promote learning. The results from this study will strengthen e-learning program planning and delivery within higher education centres that are already engaged in e-learning, as well as convey important best practices for learning centres at the beginning stages of e-learning development.  Presented is an e-learning framework, which may serve as the foundation of future empirical studies in e-learning. Resume Renforcer l'apprentissage plus approfondi en passant par des equipes virtuelles dans l'apprentissage en ligne : Une synthese des determinants et des meilleures pratiques A l'echelle mondiale, l'apprentissage en ligne gagne en popularite puisque ses contributions eventuelles au developpement economique et social sont reconnues. Cependant, son plein potentiel n'a pas ete realise, car la plupart des pratiques d'apprentissage en ligne ne font que simplement reproduire les methodes d'enseignement traditionnelles existantes et n’ont pas pleinement exploite les composantes interactives et sociales de l'apprentissage par les pairs. Recemment, il y a eu une focalisation accrue sur l’apprentissage plus approfondi dans des milieux d'enseignement superieur, en particulier, l'accent sur les competences et les connaissances qui se renforcent mutuellement et, ensemble, favorisent un apprentissage plus approfondi (Chow, 2010). Autrement dit, la recherche montre que pour reussir, tous les etudiants doivent avoir acces a des possibilites educatives qui favorisent un apprentissage plus approfondi. Les equipes virtuelles (EV) sont dites de favoriser l'apprentissage « plus approfondi », mais elles n'ont pas ete empiriquement etudiees dans la sphere academique, et on en sait peu sur leur efficacite en tant que mecanisme d'apprentissage en apprentissage en ligne. Dans cet article, les resultats d'une revue systematique et d’une synthese interpretative de la litterature sur l'apprentissage en ligne et les equipes virtuelles sont presentes. L'objectif de l'etude etait d'identifier les competences de base et les connaissances issues de la recherche qui se renforcent mutuellement et, ensemble, favorisent un apprentissage plus approfondi. Les resultats de cette etude permettront de renforcer la planification de programme et la livraison d’apprentissage en ligne dans les centres d'enseignement superieur qui sont deja impliques dans l'apprentissage en ligne, ainsi que de transmettre d'importantes meilleures pratiques pour les centres d'apprentissage qui en sont aux premiers stades du developpement de l'apprentissage en ligne. On presente un cadre de reference d'apprentissage en ligne, qui peut servir de base a de futures etudes empiriques en apprentissage en ligne.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.657
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.361
Teacher spread0.334 · 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