Knowledge Co-Construction in Online Learning is a comprehensive, foundational resource that explores the study of social construction of knowledge through platforms, social dynamics, and other aspects of today’s technology-enhanced education. The interactive spaces, from formal computer-supported collaborative learning settings to informal social media-integrative environments, that comprise asynchronous online learning offer a rich source of data for analyzing teaching and learning. How, then, can researchers and designers in educational technology, instructional design, the learning sciences, and beyond most effectively analyze the content and data generated by these complex co-creations of knowledge? Grounded in sociocultural and social constructivist theories of learning and driven by the globally renowned Interaction Analysis Model, this book applies statistical and computational methods to study the group interactions and social networks that yield newly constructed knowledge
