Temporal Considerations in Analyzing and Designing for Online Discussions in Education: Examining Duration, Sequence, Pace and Salience Chapter 8 in Assessment and Evaluation of Time Factors in Online Teaching and Learning

Time plays a fundamental role in both the benefits and challenges of using online discussions as a pedagogical tool. This makes temporal considerations critical both for conducting analyses of how learning takes places through online discussions, and for designing effective structures to support discussion activity. However, despite the importance of temporal considerations for online discussions, the majority of research on online discussions...