Assessing the effectiveness of a voluntary online discussion forum on improving students' course performance

Computers and Education

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 253-261

  Cheng, Cho Kin ^a   Paré, Dwayne E ^a   Collimore, Lisa Marie ^a   Joordens, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discussion forum; Lurking; Page hits; Performance

Indexed keywords

COURSE PERFORMANCE; DISCUSSION FORUM; HIGHER EDUCATION; LURKING; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; PAGE HITS; PERFORMANCE; STUDENT ENGAGEMENT; WRITING ASSIGNMENTS;

EXPERIMENTS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 77957975396     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.07.024     Document Type: Article

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