Conceptualizing and Analyzing the Instructor-Student Collaboration

Abstract

This concept paper conceptualizes the instructor-student collaboration as a continuum, ranging from a lower level of aggregates of individual participation, to a higher level of turn-taking process through which participants form mutual interactions, develop sustained communications, and take joint actions to achieve a shared goal. This paper then proposes an analytical framework including participation frequency, turn-taking discourse, and participant perception dimensions, to analyze instructor-student collaboration in authentic teaching and learning practices.