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Learner interactions are the key to understanding how learning occurs in asynchronous discussion forums. Most of the existing studies, however, only pay attention to the visible aspect of interaction (online speaking, i.e., creating posts); little is known about online listening, the invisible one that refers to viewing existing posts. Online listening, often used interchangeably with reading and lurking, is an active, personally driven, and inseparable component in the participation of online discussions. Its main measurement method is objective one based on log-file data, which can be subdivided into individual- and social perspectives-oriented. Two key problems that occur are the lack of concern for the quality of online listening and the unavailability of temporal information in most existing forums. To address these gaps, this chapter presents a conceptual framework from theoretical perspective that aims to comprehensively measure learners’ online listening in asynchronous discussion forums. In order to understand the invisible aspect of learner interactions, the proposed framework first develops a semantic network-based discussions grounded on assimilation theory of meaningful learning. Then a combination of extracted analytics, SNA, and content analysis is proposed to comprehensively analyze online listening from individual, social, and cognitive perspectives. We believe that this proposed framework will contribute to an in-depth insight into learner interactions in online discussions. |
