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Educationally Valuable Talk: A New Concept for Determining the Quality of Online Conversations
This paper is about conversations and quality of talk in online discussions. Derived from the tenets of constructivist learning as well as the notion of "exploratory talk", it characterizes two distinct types of talk: educationally valuable talk (EVT) and educationally less valuable talk (ELVT). The potential of each talk type for collaborative knowledge building is discussed and teaching implications are considered....
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- Material Type:
- Open (Access) Journal-Article
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- July 7, 2014
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- July 7, 2014
- Author:
- Sedef Uzuner, University of Albany
- Submitter:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
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- Adobe Reader for pdf
- Language:
- English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
