The study analyzes evidence of how online graduate students perceive antecedents to productive online discussion posts and exchanges. It seeks to document how graduate students perceive good and bad discussions (both face-to-face and online). Through descriptive qualitative analysis we consider how graduate students describe online productive social interactions. Graduate student data provide potential elements and “rules” for discussion posts and group work that promote higher-order cognitive skills. As one graduate student succinctly offered, “I enjoyed reading my classmates’ lists, especially because it was so informative to learn what characteristics my classmates find most important in regards to discussions. This information will help me in how I approach our group work and discussion throughout this class. I was happy for the opportunity to use everyone’s wonderful posts in order to expand, elaborate, and clarify my own thoughts.”

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研究生进行有意义和建设性讨论的先决条件：发展潜在的协作性在线互动

该研究分析了在线研究生如何看待富有成效的在线讨论帖子和交流的先例的证据。它旨在记录研究生如何看待（无论是面对面的还是在线的）讨论的好与坏。通过描述性的定性分析，我们考虑了研究生如何描述在线生产性社会互动。研究生数据为讨论职位和小组工作提供了潜在的要素和“规则”，以促进更高层次的认知技能。正如一位研究生简洁地提供的那样，“我喜欢阅读同学的名单，特别是因为了解同学在讨论中最重要的特征对我很有帮助。这些信息将帮助我在整个课程中如何进行小组工作和讨论。