Students' participation intention in an online discussion forum: Why is computer-mediated interaction attractive?

Information and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 456-466

  Yang, Xue ^a   Li, Yan ^b   Tan, Chuan Hoo ^a   Teo, Hock Hai ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Online discussion forum; Theory of reasoned action

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUM; STUDENT PARTICIPATION RATE;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34447339116     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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