The use of VoiceThread as a multimodal digital platform to foster online students’ task engagement, communication and online community building
Offering online courses as a pathway to higher education degrees is growing worldwide, including Australia (Greenland & Moore, 2014; Open Universities Australia [OUA], 2018). This rapid growth is undergirded by the profound influence of globalization and economic potential of online instruction...
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ftcurtin:oai:espace.curtin.edu.au:20.500.11937/80474 2023-06-11T04:12:13+02:00 The use of VoiceThread as a multimodal digital platform to foster online students’ task engagement, communication and online community building Chen, Julian Bogachenko, Tetiana Sims, Craig Cooper, Martin Dovchin, Sender 2020 restricted https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80474 https://doi.org/10.3726/b15710 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80474 doi:10.3726/b15710 Book Chapter 2020 ftcurtin https://doi.org/20.500.11937/8047410.3726/b15710 2023-05-30T19:58:08Z Offering online courses as a pathway to higher education degrees is growing worldwide, including Australia (Greenland & Moore, 2014; Open Universities Australia [OUA], 2018). This rapid growth is undergirded by the profound influence of globalization and economic potential of online instruction (Rovai & Downey, 2010). Distance education is more cost-effective (Reiach, Averbeck & Cassidy, 2012) and offers more flexibility and accessibility (Anderson, 2010; Evans & Pauling, 2010) as students and instructors are not restricted by their physical location and can participate anytime and from anywhere (Kresevic, Burant, Denton, Heath & Kypriotakis, 2011). In addition, the use of mobile phones, tablets and multimedia in course delivery may provide a competitive edge by making online courses more aligned with the learning styles of modern students who feel comfortable with small screens, daily engaging in “producing, commenting, sharing and classifying [their] own content” (Evans & Pauling, 2010, p. 207). Open Universities Australia (OUA) developed a centralized platform that provides access to fully online courses and units run by partner Australian universities. In 2017 alone, it had over thirty-four thousand enrolled students from seventy-two countries (OUA, 2018), thus becoming ←175 | 176→the largest provider of online higher education in Australia (Moore & Greenland, 2017). As highlighted in the recent Universities Australia Keep It Clever Policy Statement, “for Australia, meeting this era of change with confidence and skill requires a university system that is responsive, flexible and agile” (Universities Australia, 2016, p. Book Part Greenland Curtin University: espace Cassidy ENVELOPE(160.783,160.783,-77.450,-77.450) Greenland Pauling ENVELOPE(-66.967,-66.967,-66.533,-66.533) |
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Offering online courses as a pathway to higher education degrees is growing worldwide, including Australia (Greenland & Moore, 2014; Open Universities Australia [OUA], 2018). This rapid growth is undergirded by the profound influence of globalization and economic potential of online instruction (Rovai & Downey, 2010). Distance education is more cost-effective (Reiach, Averbeck & Cassidy, 2012) and offers more flexibility and accessibility (Anderson, 2010; Evans & Pauling, 2010) as students and instructors are not restricted by their physical location and can participate anytime and from anywhere (Kresevic, Burant, Denton, Heath & Kypriotakis, 2011). In addition, the use of mobile phones, tablets and multimedia in course delivery may provide a competitive edge by making online courses more aligned with the learning styles of modern students who feel comfortable with small screens, daily engaging in “producing, commenting, sharing and classifying [their] own content” (Evans & Pauling, 2010, p. 207). Open Universities Australia (OUA) developed a centralized platform that provides access to fully online courses and units run by partner Australian universities. In 2017 alone, it had over thirty-four thousand enrolled students from seventy-two countries (OUA, 2018), thus becoming ←175 | 176→the largest provider of online higher education in Australia (Moore & Greenland, 2017). As highlighted in the recent Universities Australia Keep It Clever Policy Statement, “for Australia, meeting this era of change with confidence and skill requires a university system that is responsive, flexible and agile” (Universities Australia, 2016, p. |
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The use of VoiceThread as a multimodal digital platform to foster online students’ task engagement, communication and online community building |
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