Online conferencing with multimedia students: monitoring gender participation and promoting critical debate

dc.creator	John Cook
dc.creator	Carole Leathwood
dc.creator	Peter Oriogun
dc.date	2002-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:22:14Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:22:14Z
dc.identifier	1473-7507
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/b8bd331db88b4b03b30b8791b92d5941
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/20594
dc.description	This paper presents some preliminary findings from a study with the two aims of examining: (i) gender differences in online participation and (ii) methods for obtaining better online debate. A number of research methods were used. The study involved a WebCT conference for a total population of 123 second year undergraduate students following a module on Communicating via Multimedia. Students were split into groups of 3-6 students. There were about 1500 contributions to the debates over 10 days. One result was that 70% of students stated that the approach taken was successful at getting them involved in critical debate (the 1999 score for the same question was 56%). Another result was that women read about 11% more items than men and men posted about 6% more items than women. Furthermore, women were under-represented in the top 20% of overall module grades and over-represented in the module fails. The paper explores these issues.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Higher Education Academy Subject Network for Information & Computer Sciences
dc.relation	http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/issue2/cook/006.PDF
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1473-7507
dc.source	ITALICS, Vol 1, Iss 2 (2002)
dc.subject	online learning
dc.subject	critical thinking
dc.subject	gender and technology
dc.subject	multimedia education
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Online conferencing with multimedia students: monitoring gender participation and promoting critical debate
dc.type	article