Ideal types of students in online learning (not real title)

thorough student

often logging in without posting, just reading. appeared to create posts in an external tool. viewed all posts. replied to posts that she had been viewing more than 3 times. self-monitoring student

multi-pass approach, from top-level posts to the replies and back reviewed his own posts several times particularly focused on replies to his own posts independent student

looked like a minimalist student (doing as little as possible) create more posts than required read instructor's posts, but few of classmates progressively developed own ideas (focused more on independent thinking, than classmates) used tool for progressive reflection - “in last post: to conclude all of my posts” - development of ideas, but not with anyone else (use click tracking, based on Hewitt on scan vs read, etc)

derive profiles of “extreme cases”

dimensions:

attention to voice: peer group; self; self, instructor nature of participation (Knowlton, 2005): metacognitive, dialogical, generative, developmental, passive participation orientation (Del Valle, Duffy 2007): mastery, task Limitations: verification, learner input

Future reearch

validate complement with broad-based analysis, interview evaluate productiveness of different styles examine influences on group discussion (own thought: ways of contributing, cognitive roles)