Can an instructor and students build collaborative partnership in an online course?

Fan Ouyang, Yu Hui Chang, Cassandra Scharber

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Abstract

A collaborative partnership between the instructor and students has potential to transform education from the instructor-directed to student-centered learning. However, relevant inquiry indicated conceptual, practical, and methodological gaps on theory, practice, and research of the collaborative partnership. This study aims to better understand the collaborative partnership during actual teaching and learning processes. Using content analysis, we examined the instructor-student collaborative partnership from participation moves perspective in an online course. Results show that the instructor and students keep mutual interactions to construct knowledge; they maintain communications to design and implement online discussions; and they take joint actions to form a social, supportive learning environment. More importantly, a synergistic collaborative partnership was initially developed by the instructor and students. Based on the results, we provided implications to advance practices of the instructor-student collaborative partnership in online learning.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
Subtitle of host publicationThe Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020 - Conference Proceedings
EditorsMelissa Gresalfi, Ilana Seidel Horn
PublisherInternational Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Pages27-34
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781732467255
StatePublished - 2020
Event14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020 - Nashville, United States
Duration: Jun 19 2020Jun 23 2020

Publication series

NameComputer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL
Volume1
ISSN (Print)1573-4552

Conference

Conference14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNashville
Period6/19/206/23/20

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
F.O. acknowledges the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Program) (61907038), from the financial support from China Zhejiang Province Educational Reformation Research Project in Higher Education (The 13th 5-year plan, the second round) (jg20190048), and from the Startup Foundation of the Hundred Talents Program at the Zhejiang University.

Publisher Copyright:
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