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dc.contributor.advisorLaffey, James M. (James Michael), 1949-eng
dc.contributor.authorGoggins, Sean Patrickeng
dc.date.issued2009eng
dc.date.submitted2009 Springeng
dc.descriptionThe entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file.eng
dc.descriptionTitle from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on May 12, 2011).eng
dc.descriptionThesis advisor: Dr. James Laffey.eng
dc.descriptionVita.eng
dc.descriptionPh. D. University of Missouri--Columbia 2009.eng
dc.description.abstractWorking, learning and informal information-seeking behavior is rapidly moving online. It will increasingly involve collaboration within small groups meeting online. While this process is being driven by technological innovation, the important socio-technical issues of human computer, human-human and human-information interaction under the new conditions are less well understood. Completely online groups (COGS) are phenomena that have emerged in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments. This mixed methods study examines the development of eight completely online groups in a CSCL course held at the University of Missouri during the summer of 2008. The principal contribution of this work is a new and deeper understanding of completely online groups and the diverse development trajectories they follow. This work also contributes a methodologically rich research design that leads to the comprehensive description of the context and experiences of completely online groups. The results presented include patterns of completely online small-group development, and the relation of those patterns to differences in social ability, group efficacy and information horizons among the groups and their members. Completely online small-group development is characterized through detailed analysis of social-network structure, patterns of group-knowledge construction and trajectories of group-identity formation.eng
dc.description.bibrefIncludes bibliographical references.eng
dc.format.extentxvii, 341 pageseng
dc.identifier.oclc722879400eng
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/10758
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.32469/10355/10758eng
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunityUniversity of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertationseng
dc.rightsOpenAccess.eng
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.subject.lcshKnowledge representation (Information theory)eng
dc.subject.lcshKnowledge, Sociology ofeng
dc.subject.lcshSocial networkseng
dc.subject.lcshGroup identityeng
dc.subject.lcshHuman-computer interactioneng
dc.subject.lcshHuman information processingeng
dc.subject.lcshInformation behavioreng
dc.subject.lcshTeams in the workplace -- Data processingeng
dc.titleKnowledge construction, social identity and social network structure in completely online groupseng
dc.typeThesiseng
thesis.degree.disciplineInformation science and learning technologies (MU)eng
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
thesis.degree.levelDoctoraleng
thesis.degree.namePh. D.eng


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