| Read a Post | | | | Reply to this Post | | | Re: Effective discussion boards in online education | | Posted By: Andrew Topper on August 6, 2003 | | | Janet (and others):
It seems there is a lot of this going around! I too just finished a 1-year study of students participation in online discussion at the graduate level and have plans to publish the results soon. I have found lots of articles that talk about various aspects of online discussion - how to facilitate it, how to identify different types of postings, etc. - but my interest is in how students learn from it. I've taken a quantitative and qualitative approach to analyzing the online discourse and then tried to connect patterns of student participation to subsequent learning. I've also got data, in the form of self-report, that indicates that students do in fact learn from participation and I think there is a need to share these results, along with the techniques used to nuture this learning, with others. I'd be glad to share my literature review with you and others if there is interest.
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| | Thread Hierarchy |  Effective discussion boards in online education by Janet Smith on June 24, 2003- Thoughts or articles by Cecil McManus on July 2, 2003
- Discussion Board by Robyn Harding on July 14, 2003
- Re: Effective discussion boards in online education by Andrew Topper on August 6, 2003
- Online Education by Leilani Carbonell Pedroni on August 6, 2003
- good article by Wanda Nitsch on August 14, 2003
- design of instructional discussion boards by Kathleen Roberts on August 26, 2003
- Still more articles on this topic! by Andrew Topper on August 29, 2003
- Some comments on this topic - based on my experiences by Andrew Topper on August 30, 2003
- online discussion boards by Susan Schroeder on September 3, 2003
- Interest in collaborating on a presentation @ SITE 05 on this topic? by Andrew Topper on August 2, 2004
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