Start Date

11-8-2016

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Selective exposure is an inhibitor to teaching and learning in an IT-enabled learning environment because in electronic environments, students have greater freedom over what they choose to access and read. This study will use in-class field experiments in order to examine the impact of information presentation and familiarity of the source on the quality of information elaboration through the mediating factor of selective exposure. Selective exposure is an individual’s tendency to seek confirmatory (as opposed to non-confirmatory) information related to a choice that has been made by the individual. Information elaboration requires attending to the decision-related information, processing that information, and analyzing the information to present a coherent argument related thereto. The integrative quality of information elaboration depends on the extent to which non-confirmatory and confirmatory opinions are attended to, processed, and combined to lead to a decision. This research will contribute to the literature on IT-enabled teaching and learning.

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Selective Exposure: Implications for Information Elaboration in Asynchronous Online Discussions

Selective exposure is an inhibitor to teaching and learning in an IT-enabled learning environment because in electronic environments, students have greater freedom over what they choose to access and read. This study will use in-class field experiments in order to examine the impact of information presentation and familiarity of the source on the quality of information elaboration through the mediating factor of selective exposure. Selective exposure is an individual’s tendency to seek confirmatory (as opposed to non-confirmatory) information related to a choice that has been made by the individual. Information elaboration requires attending to the decision-related information, processing that information, and analyzing the information to present a coherent argument related thereto. The integrative quality of information elaboration depends on the extent to which non-confirmatory and confirmatory opinions are attended to, processed, and combined to lead to a decision. This research will contribute to the literature on IT-enabled teaching and learning.