Poster(v): D&D-Designing hard and soft scaffolding to enhance graduate students’ online collaborative learning

• In Event: Gallery Walk Showcase
  In Showcase Session: Gallery 19 - Emerging Trends in Research and Practice Across Contexts

Short Description

This poster will describe how hard and soft scaffolding features were designed and implemented in a collaborative learning project to support students’ knowledge construction and knowledge building in an online graduate course. A quasi-experiment was conducted to compare the perceived effectiveness of two scaffolding conditions: 1) hard scaffolding only and 2) hard and soft scaffolding. This poster will present the preliminary findings and discuss implications for scaffolding design and future studies.

Authors

• Presenter: Qijie Cai, Towson University

• Contributor: Shaimaa Alyehaibi, Towson University

• Presenter: Alexis Guethler, Towson University