This is a very nice critique of the Community of Inquiry framework (CoI) advanced by Garrison, Archer and Anderson about a decade ago. "Online discussion consists of a flow of relatively disorganized improvisational exchanges that somehow achieve highly goal-directed, rational course agendas... the apparent chaos and order are in fact one and the same process of knowledge construction combining the informal logic of conversation with the formal rationality of academic discourse." Every discussion post, just like every utterance, serves multiple purposes, forming the basis for future communications as well as serving the intent of the current one.
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