Collaborative Learning in an Online Environment
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Abstract
The study described in this article researched the process of collaborative learning that occurred when postgraduate students studying a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program used computer-mediated communication (CMC) as a means of small-group and large-group communication. It reports a largely qualitative study of groups of students learning collaboratively while living remotely from their university campus. The main objective of the research was to observe and document the effects of the use of the computer-mediated group conferences on the group interaction of the students and to record their use and perceptions of the effects of the use of computer-mediated communication in their learning process. Cet article decrit une recherche qui porte sur le processus d’apprentissage collaboratif observe chez des etudiants inscrits a un programme de maitrise en administration des affaires (MBA), qui ont utilise la communication mediatisee par ordinateur comme moyen de communication en petit groupe et en grand groupe. Il decrit une etude qualitative menee aupres de groupes d’etudiants qui, pendant une periode ou ils ne se presentent pas sur le campus universitaire, doivent mener a distance une demarche d’apprentissage collaboratif. L’objectif principal de la recherche consistait a observer et a documenter les effets des forums de discussion sur l’interaction d’un groupe d’etudiants, a rapporter leur maniere de l’utiliser et a definir leurs perceptions quant aux incidences de la communication mediatisee par ordinateur sur le processus d’apprentissage.
