Cooperation vs. Deliberation: CMC and the Problem of Argument in International Distance Education

dc.creator	Michael Davis
dc.creator	Albert Rouzie
dc.date	2002-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:31:48Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:31:48Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/816ec391cae14ebb8f238530367cd325
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/31118
dc.description	The idea that Internet-based distance education offers the potential to globalize higher education has not been matched by significant interest in the pedagogical and methodological issues at stake. This essay discusses a two-year experimental course conducted between two college classes in Karlskrona, Sweden and Ohio, in the United States. The goal of this course was to use online debate to augment intercultural understanding. This experiment involved both synchronous and asynchronous computer mediated conferencing (CMC) as well as various types of assignments intended to emphasize the discursive strengths of each CMC form. We discovered, however, that our assumptions about CMC discourse were challenged by the way it developed in our international contexts. Ultimately, we developed and propose a methodology that delimits and makes productive the playful agnostics of synchronous debate by employing asynchronous conferencing for the pre-debate development of common ground and the post-debate development of formal arguments.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/82/158
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2002)
dc.subject	MOO
dc.subject	asynchronous conferencing
dc.subject	international education
dc.subject	collaboration
dc.subject	conflict
dc.subject	argumentation
dc.subject	American studies
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	Cooperation vs. Deliberation: CMC and the Problem of Argument in International Distance Education
dc.type	article