Visualization tools that display learners' online participation levels help learners monitor their own participation status in real time. Although learners in these collaborative environments perform team-based activities, research shows they are motivated more by the visibility of their individual participation level than by the visibility of the group's participation level.

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- Research suggests that online participation including social interaction in collaborative online learning environments, is crucial in motivating students to learn and promote learning satisfaction. There needs to be a balance between group and individual participation for online learning environments to be effective. This study determined two visualization tools to motivate students to participate actively and examine its effects.

- The results show that the visualization tool on online participation can enhance their online participation however, the visualization of individual participation has a greater effect than the visualization of group participation, despite the collaborative learning community. 

Using Visualization to Motivate Student Participation in Collaborative Online Learning Environments 

There are three important factors influencing the online learning effectiveness;
- interaction with teachers
- level of participation 
- interaction with peers 


Influences on online learning effectiveness 

Sung-Hee Jin. “Using Visualization to Motivate Student Participation in Collaborative Online Learning Environments.” Journal of Educational Technology & Society, vol. 20, no. 2, 2017, pp. 51–62. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/90002163. Accessed 12 Oct. 2020.

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