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1. The SCA perspective in the CKC within the ALN: a review of analytical tools Antoni Badia & Alberto Ramírez Psychology and Education Department Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. www.uoc.edu Group research: www.sinte.es

5. SCA perspective: social and individual dimensions Individual dimension Social dimension

6. SCA perspective: Research questions and design “ To find appropriate interaction analysis/content analysis techniques that assist in examining the negotiation of meaning and co-construction of knowledge in collaborative learning environments” (Gunawardena, Lowe & Anderson,1997, p. 397) “ This article describes a practical approach to judging the nature and quality of critical discourse in a computer conference” ( Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2001, p. 1 ) “ We study whether the students are able to reach in reciprocal interaction and thus create educationally relevant high-level web-based discussion ” (Järvelä & Häkkinen, 2002, p. 1) “ In this contribution, two studies will be reported that investigated the effects of epistemic and social scripts in a text-based computer-supported learning environment and in a videoconferencing learning environment in order to foster the individual acquisition of knowledge” ( Weinberger, Fischer & Mandl, 2005, p. 416)

7. SCA perspective: analytical tools and learning activities Theoretical grounding Learning situation analysed Social Construction of Knowledge (Gunawardena, Lowe & Anderson, 2007) Virtual discussions Critical Thinking in a Community of Inquiry (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2001) Electronic discussions within a community of inquiry Knowledge convergence (Weinberger, Stegmann & Fischer, 2007) Different learning tasks: discussion, problem solving, case analysis Argumentative Knowledge Construction (Kollar & Fischer, 2004; Clark & Sampson, 2007) Argumentative knowledge building processes Shared Knowledge (Järvelä & Häkkinen, 2002; Mäkitalo, 2005) Virtual discussions

9. SCA perspective: data sources

10. SCA perspectives: types of analytical tools COGNITIVE PRESENCE The influence of instructional methods on the quality of online discussion . Kanuka, Rourke & Laflamme (2007)

12. The Social-Cognitive-Affective (SCA) perspective in the collaborative knowledge construction (CKC) within the ALN: a review of analytical tools Antoni Badia and Alberto Ramírez Universitat Oberta de Catalunya www.uoc.edu Group research: www.sinte.es Thank you for your attention!