My primary role was as a graduate research assistant on the project. Much of our research work was focused on how teachers and learners perceived the information they got from the CANS tools, how they used that information in their learning and its perceived usefulness and effect on teaching and learning behaviors. In addition, we also spent time analyzing trace data produced by CANS in order to understand learner behavior both "active" behavior (posting) and "passive" behavior (reading, "lurking", etc). Qualitative and quantitative methods were used. See the "writings from this research" below for specific topics and outcomes. The project was complete as of December 2010; however, the FIPSE-CANS team is continuing to finish publication writings.
Writings from this research:
Galyen, K., Goggins, S., & Laffey, J. (2010). Social ability in completely online groups: A comparison with and without activity awareness tools. In Proceedings of world conference on educational multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications 2010. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Galyen, K., Tsai, I., & Laffey, J. (2010). The relationship between learning satisfaction and social ability in completely online learning courses. In Proceedings of world conference on educational multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications 2010. (pp. 1941-7). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/34903 [Download]
Goggins, S., Galyen, K., & Laffey, J. (2010). Network Analysis of Trace Data for the Support of Group Work: Activity Patterns in a Completely Online Course. Proceedings from ACM Group 2010, Sanibel Island, FL. (35% acceptance rate) [Download]
Goggins, S. P., Laffey, J., & Galyen, K. (2009). Social ability in online groups: Representing the quality of interactions in social computing environments. In Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on computational science and engineering. doi: 10.1109/CSE.2009.339 [Download]
Hong, R. -Y., Galyen, K., Laffey, J., & Tsai, I. -C. (2009). Social comparison visualization for fostering participation in online learning. (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, USA). [Download]
Laffey, J., Reid, D., Galyen, K., Hong, R. Y., Xie, X., Amelung, C., Gu, X. & Guo, Y. (2010). A turn to the social: Design research to build understanding, tools and practices for the social nature of online learning. Presented at the education design research conference in honor of professor Thomas C. Reeves. [Download]
Laffey, J., Hong, R. Y., Galyen, K., Goggins, S., & Amelung, C. (2009). Context-Aware activity notification system: Supporting CSCL. In Proceedings of the 9th international conference on computer supported collaborative learning, volume 2. [Download]
Laffey, J., Tsai, I.-C., Amelung, C., Hong, R., Galyen, K., & Goggins, S. (2009). The role of social information for social ability, sense of community and satisfaction in online learning. Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Conference of American Educational Research Association, San Diego, California.
Laffey, J., Tsai, I.-C., Amelung, C., Hong, R.-Y., Galyen, K. & Goggins, S. P. (2010). The role of activity awareness for social ability, sense of community and satisfaction in online learning. Open Education Research, 16(3). [Download]
Tsai, I., Galyen, K., Xie, X., & Laffey, J. (2010). Using activity theory to examine social interaction of online learning. In Proceedings of world conference on educational multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications 2010. Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/34785. [Download]
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