Connections: new ways of working in the networked organization
Connections: new ways of working in the networked organization
The use of information technology to enhance management school education: a theoretical view
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on IS curricula and pedagogy
Issues associated with participation in on line forums—the case of the communicative learner
Education and Information Technologies
Human-Computer Interaction
Computers & Education - Methodological issue in researching CSCL
Content analysis: What are they talking about?
Computers & Education - Methodological issue in researching CSCL
Content analysis schemes to analyze transcripts of online asynchronous discussion groups: A review
Computers & Education - Methodological issue in researching CSCL
Knowledge building in asynchronous discussion groups: Going beyond quantitative analysis
Computers & Education - Methodological issue in researching CSCL
Computers & Education - Methodological issue in researching CSCL
Predicting students' final performance from participation in on-line discussion forums
Computers & Education
Should your MOOC forum use a reputation system?
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Question Development in Two Online Graduate Teacher Education Courses
International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of voluntary discussion forums in a higher education setting. Specifically, we examined intrinsic forum participation and investigated its relation to course performance across two experiments. In Experiment 1 (N = 1284) an online discussion forum was implemented at the beginning of an undergraduate introductory psychology course, and measures of course performance (i.e., writing assignment grades, exam grades, and extra-credits obtained) were compared with measures of forum participation. In Experiment 2 (N = 1334) an online discussion forum was implemented halfway through a second undergraduate introductory psychology course, after an initial measure of course performance was obtained, to control for the potential confound of student engagement (e.g., students who perform better in the course use the forum more). Overall, the results showed that students who participated in the forum tended to have better performance in the course, and furthermore that participating in the discussion forum, particularly reading posts on the forum, slightly improved exam performance. This study provides empirical support for the theoretical proposition that there is a facilitation effect of discussion forum participation on course performance. The results also suggest that implementation of an online discussion forum is beneficial even if a teacher only invests minimal time on the forum.