Supporting Interaction Outside of Class: Anchored Discussions vs. Discussion Boards Export

@inproceedings{Brush2002, abstract = {Newsgroups and online discussion boards have long been used to supplement class discussions. We describe a study comparing the use of two systems, WebAnn and EPost, to support class discussion of technical papers in a graduate course. WebAnn is a shared annotation system that supports anchored discussions on web pages, and allows users to easily associate comments with a particular paragraph, phrase, or word in the paper being discussed. EPost is a highquality conventional discussion board system. In our study, students contributed almost twice as much to the online discussion using WebAnn. WebAnn also encouraged a different discussion style, focused on specific points in the paper. We expected WebAnn discussions to serve as a starting point for in-depth discussions in the classroom; but in fact, online discussions often competed with classroom discussions. We conclude with implications of the study for technology design and the process of its use.}, author = {Brush, A. J. B. and Bargeron, D. and Grudin, J. and Borning, A. and Gupta, A.}, booktitle = {Proccedings of CSCL 2002}, citeulike-article-id = {553685}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/449838.html}, keywords = {online-learning}, pages = {425--434}, posted-at = {2006-04-20 13:32:15}, priority = {2}, title = {Supporting Interaction Outside of Class: Anchored Discussions vs. Discussion Boards}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/449838.html}, year = {2002} }

TY - CONF ID - Brush2002 L3 - citeulike-article-id:553685 N2 - Newsgroups and online discussion boards have long been used to supplement class discussions. We describe a study comparing the use of two systems, WebAnn and EPost, to support class discussion of technical papers in a graduate course. WebAnn is a shared annotation system that supports anchored discussions on web pages, and allows users to easily associate comments with a particular paragraph, phrase, or word in the paper being discussed. EPost is a highquality conventional discussion board system. In our study, students contributed almost twice as much to the online discussion using WebAnn. WebAnn also encouraged a different discussion style, focused on specific points in the paper. We expected WebAnn discussions to serve as a starting point for in-depth discussions in the classroom; but in fact, online discussions often competed with classroom discussions. We conclude with implications of the study for technology design and the process of its use. EP - 434 TI - Supporting Interaction Outside of Class: Anchored Discussions vs. Discussion Boards T2 - Proccedings of CSCL 2002 SP - 425 KW - online-learning AU - Brush, AJB AU - Bargeron, D AU - Grudin, J AU - Borning, A AU - Gupta, A PY - 2002/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/449838.html ER -