{"id":645,"date":"2016-06-10T02:19:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T02:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=645"},"modified":"2016-06-10T07:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T07:48:26","slug":"initial-experiences-with-small-group-discussions-in-moocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Initial Experiences with Small Group Discussions in MOOCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><em>Seongtaek Lim, Derrick Coetzee, Bjorn Hartmann, Armando Fox, and Marti A. Hearst<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<li>Classroom-based peer learning relies on students being in the same place at the same time to form peer discussion groups, but this is rarely true for online students in MOOCs.<\/li>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<li>We built a soft- ware tool that facilitates chat-based peer learning in MOOCs by 1) automatically forming ad-hoc discussion groups and 2) scaffolding the interactions between students in these groups.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Initial-Experiences-with-Small-Group-Discussions-in-MOOCs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #f46455;\"><em><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seongtaek Lim, Derrick Coetzee, Bjorn Hartmann, Armando Fox, and Marti A. Hearst Classroom-based peer learning relies on students being in the same place at the same time to form peer discussion groups, but this is rarely true for online students <a href=\"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=645\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mooc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"EdDataX","author_link":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/?author=1"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">MOOC<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Seongtaek Lim, Derrick Coetzee, Bjorn Hartmann, Armando Fox, and Marti A. Hearst Classroom-based peer learning relies on students being in the same place at the same time to form peer discussion groups, but this is rarely true for online students Read More ...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eddatax.fed.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}