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Progressive discourse is a kind of collaborative discourse for inquiry in which participants share, question, and revise their ideas to deepen understanding and build knowledge. Although progressive discourse is central to knowledge building pedagogy, it is not known whether it is possible to detect its emergence in the participation patterns in asynchronous conferencing environments or what kinds of instructional interventions are most effective to support its development. To characterize episodes of discourse in which participants honor the commitments for progressive discourse and to refine designs of peer- and software-based scaffolding, the data used in this section was collected in the context of a study that examined student interactions on the asynchronous online discussion platform, Knowledge Forum®, in an online graduate educational technology course.
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Fujita, N. (2013). Online Graduate Education Course Using Knowledge Forum. In: Suthers, D., Lund, K., Rosé, C., Teplovs, C., Law, N. (eds) Productive Multivocality in the Analysis of Group Interactions. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8960-3_20
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