Self-Governed Collaborative Inquiry in Action: A Case Study of a Large-Scale Online Youth Community.
Published in Proceedings of ISLS Annual Meeting, 2022
Summary
Online youth communities are fertile ground for collaborative learning. While prior research on such communities tends to focus on small-scale or adult-moderated learning spaces, this study reports on Physics Lab’s Online Community (PLOC), a large-scale online youth community that has generated more than 138,000 projects. Using the framework of Community of Inquiry (CoI), our exploratory mixed-methods analysis suggested the existence of CoI’s three interrelated presences: cognitive, social, and teaching in PLOC, and that in absence of instructors, it is possible for youths to perform teaching presence collaboratively.
Recommended citation: Chen, J., Zhao, L., Xiao, F., Horn, M. S., & Wilensky, U. J. (2022). Self-Governed Collaborative Inquiry in Action: A Case Study of a Large-Scale Online Youth Community. Proceedings of ISLS Annual Meeting 2022.
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