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Students’ Engagement and Peer Interaction in On-Line Academic Writing Through a Course Blog

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Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education (TECH-EDU 2018)

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Academic writing is considered one of the most critical competencies that university students need to develop and constitutes an integral part of contemporary educational programs in higher education. This paper presents an analysis of students’ engagement in online academic writing associated with inquiry and peer interaction practices through a course blog. The intervention was designed in the context of a blended postgraduate course under the assumption that on-line writing in the course blog could promote students’ academic writing skills. The key aspects of student generated content, peer interaction and reflection in the course blog were directed by the principles of e-learning 2.0. Descriptive and Social Network Analysis revealed important information regarding individual students’ contribution, peer interaction and the network structure of a learning community that was emerging in the course blog.

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    Athanassios Jimoyiannis & Panagiotis Tsiotakis

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Jimoyiannis, A., Tsiotakis, P. (2019). Students’ Engagement and Peer Interaction in On-Line Academic Writing Through a Course Blog. In: Tsitouridou, M., A. Diniz, J., Mikropoulos, T. (eds) Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education. TECH-EDU 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20954-4_8

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