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Devayani Tirthali; Yumiko Murai – Open Learning, 2024
Creating an online learning environment that engages learners beyond the given course period is challenging. Open, participant-driven discussion forums, where participants are provided with greater agency on what to learn, how to learn, and whom to learn with, have a unique potential to help learners engage in learning experiences based on their…
Descriptors: Discussion, Learner Engagement, MOOCs, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Rajan, Ranjidha – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Online learning environments and activities via learning management systems have become the new normal in most educational institutions after the COVID-19 pandemic. An online discussion forum is ideal for online and hybrid courses to enhance collaborative participation between learners and instructors. The problem addressed in this study is the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication
Ammar Bahadur Singh; Anders Mørch – Journal of Educators Online, 2024
Facilitating students' learning in a massive open online context is challenging for instructors in online teaching. The instructors should enact their professional (epistemic) feedback-giving skills to understand when, how, and why to address learning problems. In this study, we address this issue in terms of agency and suggest strategies that…
Descriptors: Epistemology, MOOCs, Intervention, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Marla J. Lohmann; Kathleen A. Boothe – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2024
Discussion boards are a common component of asynchronous online courses. While many teacher preparation courses utilize traditional text-based discussion boards, university faculty are increasingly designing innovative approaches to asynchronous online discussions. There is significant research regarding the effectiveness of varied discussion…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Learner Engagement, Discussion Groups, Online Courses
Juliet V. Lockwood – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Incivility in the college classroom distracts from the learning process. Students who are uncivil to their peers often shame and embarrass them in front of others, and uncivil students distract from learning opportunities by arguing with professors and coercing them for grades that were not earned. Incivility by students is counterintuitive to the…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Online Courses, Peer Relationship
Ilse Fouché – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: A lack of student 'buy-in' and engagement are often major obstacles in academic literacy courses. To create a dialogic learning environment which encourages student investment and challenges traditional student-lecturer hierarchies of power, the curriculum of a first-year academic literacy course at a South African university was…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Literacy Education, Learner Engagement, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Sabah Farshad; Evgenii Zorin; Nurlybek Amangeldiuly; Clement Fortin – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Project-based Learning (PBL) provides an effective environment for collaborative engineering design education. However, it is difficult to assess students' engagement and provide process-oriented feedback on their collaboration due to limited resources and scalability challenges. This paper presents an empirical study examining the application of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Mediated Communication
Hamadi, Hanadi; Tafili, Aurora; Kates, Frederick R.; Larson, Samantha A.; Ellison, Carlyn; Song, Jihee – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
Online discussion boards are a standard learning management system (LMS) instructional tool used in the emerging online learning pedagogy. This pilot study examined an innovative approach that differs from how discussion boards have been commonly used. Using a retrospective, cross-sectional design, we evaluated the effect of shifting from…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Discussion Groups, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Computer Mediated Communication
Kelli Bippert – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2023
The question posed in this analysis is: What is the relationship between text-centered dialogue and reading comprehension? This article examines one student's behaviors while reading challenging texts. This qualitative case study explored the verbal behaviors of Robert (pseudonym), a seventh-grade student receiving reading intervention. As his…
Descriptors: Literacy, Discussion, Discussion Groups, Student Behavior
Changqin Huang; Jianhui Yu; Fei Wu; Yi Wang; Nian-Shing Chen – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Investigating emotion sequence patterns in the posts of discussion forums in massive open online courses (MOOCs) holds a vital role in shaping online interactions and impacting learning achievement. While the majority of research focuses on the relationship between emotions and interactions in MOOC forum discussions, research on…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Processes
Frohlich, Dennis Owen – College Teaching, 2020
Online discussion boards are in frequent use these days in both face-to-face and online courses. While "discussion" is in the name, it's not uncommon to see students struggle to have meaningful conversations in these digital spaces. One Quick Fix to this predicament is to require students to post a discussion question at the end of their…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Student Role
Du, Hanxiang; Xing, Wanli – Distance Education, 2023
Online discussion forums are highly valued by instructors due to their affordance for understanding class activities and learning. However, a discussion forum with a great number of posts requires a large amount of time to view, and help requests are easily overlooked. Various machine-learning--based tools have been developed to help instructors…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Classification, Identification
Todd Reynolds – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2024
Purpose: Synchronous virtual classes are becoming more common as universities expand access. However, instructors can feel hesitant as they move to a new style of teaching, especially if they are not sure their chosen pedagogy will work with virtual instruction. The purpose of this dialogic analysis is to examine the experiences of a dialogic…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication, English Instruction
Kristen Paige Kelton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The relationship between quantity of instructor to student interactions in online, asynchronous, course-specific courses at the community college level is under-researched. This quantitative, correlational study examined the relationship between the weekly number of instructor-generated posts and two course outcomes within fully online history…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, History Instruction, Outcomes of Education
Nicole M. Duttlinger – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Discussion board forums have become commonplace within online learning environments (OLEs). With student enrollment in online classes continuing to rise and the emergence of COVID-19, more students will be utilizing discussion forums within OLEs than ever before. Positive pedagogical support for the use of discussion forums abounds, but studies on…
Descriptors: Influences, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Technology Uses in Education, Knowledge Level