Gender, culture or topics: Any impacts on primary school students´ collaborative knowledge construction in VLC? — ‘Learning Villages’ as an example

Analyzing online discussion transcripts could help researchers study the process of collaborative knowledge construction in VLC-Virtual Learning Community. Gender, culture and topics are always the most meaningful and useful aspects considering the quality of online discussion. The quality of students´ collaborative knowledge construction could be described by three divisions: knowledge construction level, diversity of posts and total number of posts. With 60 primary school students as our case study objects, and after adopting content analysis method and revised online discussion analysis model IAM, we found: most of the students got the first and the second knowledge construction level and the complex relationships between the variables mentioned above had been investigated respectively.