Ulric Björck & Berner Lindström, two colleagues from Sweden working intimately with online learning techniques, serve up their results based on observations of online posting board discussions. Abstract: "Analyzing transcripts has been established as a good way to study communication and cognition in coordination with the ideas in the scientific field of situated cognition. The study of transcripts from on-line courses gives us an interesting possibility to study situated learning."
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