Critical and Higher Order Thinking in Online Threaded Discussions in the Slovak Context

This article describes and analyzes efforts to use collaborative asynchronous discussion forums in a three semester online education program for NGO leaders and managers in Slovakia. Slovakia, as a country with autocratic styles of teacher-centered education, presents strong barriers to the implemen...

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Autores principales:	Katarina Pisutova-Gerber, Jana Malovicova
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2009
Materias:	online learning CMC Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5d442f8fab694f35ae85bde59752721b2021-12-02T17:16:19ZCritical and Higher Order Thinking in Online Threaded Discussions in the Slovak Context10.19173/irrodl.v10i1.5891492-3831https://doaj.org/article/5d442f8fab694f35ae85bde59752721b2009-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/589https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This article describes and analyzes efforts to use collaborative asynchronous discussion forums in a three semester online education program for NGO leaders and managers in Slovakia. Slovakia, as a country with autocratic styles of teacher-centered education, presents strong barriers to the implementation of collaborative learning activities. The authors used Garrison’s four stage cognitive processing categories to analyze some of the online discussions in the program. The two higher order critical thinking categories – integration and solution – appeared in student discussions only when prompted by specific instructional techniques.Katarina Pisutova-GerberJana MalovicovaAthabasca University Pressarticleonline learningCMCSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 10, Iss 1 (2009)
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description	This article describes and analyzes efforts to use collaborative asynchronous discussion forums in a three semester online education program for NGO leaders and managers in Slovakia. Slovakia, as a country with autocratic styles of teacher-centered education, presents strong barriers to the implementation of collaborative learning activities. The authors used Garrison’s four stage cognitive processing categories to analyze some of the online discussions in the program. The two higher order critical thinking categories – integration and solution – appeared in student discussions only when prompted by specific instructional techniques.
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Critical and Higher Order Thinking in Online Threaded Discussions in the Slovak Context

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