SCMD discourse activity is best understood as an ecology of nested activity systems within and beyond the classroom¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on a source with no registered publication record (a web page, book or unpublished report). It is kept because 3 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The SCMD activity system is embedded in and co-determined by broader activity systems: the instructor's course design, the university, technology designers, and the academic discipline. → Park 2015

Evidence¶

Park 2015¶

Park, Y. (2015). Understanding Synchronous Computer-Mediated Classroom Discussion through Cultural-Historical Activity Theory. The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 14(2). https://www.tojet.net/

q2 · i? · the article prints no effect size for this finding · qualitative · r2

Theoretical interpretation of the case data: the instructor's design activity determined class topics, readings, tools, times and places; the university set rules and divisions of labor; technology designers' intentions were embedded in the tool affordances.

"The current activity system of utterance production is located in the network of dynamic interactions between different systems within the SCMD, which, as a whole, may be conceived as ecology of activity systems."

Discussion¶

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