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Computer mediated communication (CMC) is used in a postgraduate subject that is offered to both online and campus-based students at the University of Melbourne. Data sources are students’ emails to the lecturer and postings to the discussion forum by students in this subject (on campus and online students) in 2000 and 2002. Students were directed, but not required, to make postings to the subject’s discussion forum and most students used email as the most convenient means of communicating with the lecturer. These data allow a comparison of the use of CMCs by on campus and online students, and a comparison of use in 2000 and 2002. Findings indicate that use of email increased from 2000 to 2002, while postings to the discussion forum of original material did not change substantially over this period, nor was there much difference in postings of original material between online and on campus students. However, online students made many more postings in response to other students’ postings than did on campus students
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Chambers, D.P. (2003). CMC to support an online learning environment. In: Davies, G., Stacey, E. (eds) Quality Education @ a Distance. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 131. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35700-3_17
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