dc.contributor.advisor | Laffey, James M. (James Michael), 1949- | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Goggins, Sean Patrick | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2009 Spring | eng |
dc.description | The 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.description | Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on May 12, 2011). | eng |
dc.description | Thesis advisor: Dr. James Laffey. | eng |
dc.description | Vita. | eng |
dc.description | Ph. D. University of Missouri--Columbia 2009. | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Working, 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.bibref | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.format.extent | xvii, 341 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.oclc | 722879400 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/10758 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/10758 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Knowledge representation (Information theory) | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Knowledge, Sociology of | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Social networks | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Group identity | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Human-computer interaction | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Human information processing | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Information behavior | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Teams in the workplace -- Data processing | eng |
dc.title | Knowledge construction, social identity and social network structure in completely online groups | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Information science and learning technologies (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | eng |
thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | eng |