“In an online forum for discussion, the material leaves a permanent trace that can be searched with keywords or with thematic tags and that allow conceptual integration of material across time and topic that would be very difficult to achieve with face-to-face classes. In other words, in online discussions we can have a kind of reading as weaving that is not an available option in face-to-face interchanges.” (p. 49)
Spiro, R. J., Klautke, H. & Johnson, A. K. (2015). All bets are off: How certain kinds of reading to learn on the web are totally different from what we learned from research on traditional text comprehension and learning from text. In R. Spiro, M. DeSchryver, M. Hagerman, P. Morsink & P. Thompson (Eds). Reading at a crossroads? Disjunctures and continuities in current conceptions and practices (pp. 45-50). New York: Routledge.
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