A longitudinal examination of temporal and iterative relationships among learner engagement dimensions during online discussion

Scholars have examined how students feel, behave, and think when engaged in asynchronous online discussion (AOD), which has become a prevalent means of collaborative learning in higher education. However, few have considered the impact of time on these learning-related dimensions, partly due to reliance on self-reported instruments that are not sufficient to measure the temporal, changeable, and iterative relationships among learning-related...