Analyzing student interactions and meaning construction in computer bulletin board discussions

By Judith B. Pena-Shaff, Craig Nicholls. Comput. Educ., 2004

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Content analysis schemes to analyze transcripts of online asynchronous discussion groups: A review (2006, methodology): “Pena-Shaff and Nicholls (2004)”
Meaningful learning in teacher education (2018, background): “In these interactive negotiating and reflecting processes individuals engage in meaning making and knowledge construction processes (Pena-Shaff & Nicholls, 2004).”
The Influence of Personality on Social Participation in Learning Environments (2006, methodology): “The picture in compulsory WBIEs is similar: Although students receive credit for participation, they participate only minimally (Bullen, 1998; Hammond, 2000; Hara, Bonk, & Angeli, 2000; Kelsey, 2000; Palonen & Hakkarainen, 2000; Pena-Shaff & Nicholls, 2004).”
The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of using social software in higher and further education teaching and learning (2010, background): “Wikis for example can serve as platforms for knowledge integration which directly contributes to the students’ cognitive development (e.g. Pena-Shaff & Nicholls, 2004; e.g. Trentin, 2009).”