- Autor
- Lackner, Elke
- Khalil, Mohammad
- Ebner, Martin
- TitelHow to foster forum discussions within MOOCs: A case study
- Datei
- Persistent Identifier
- Erschienen inInternational Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review
- Band2
- Erscheinungsjahr2016
- Heft2
- LicenceCC-BY
- Download Statistik2245
- Peer ReviewJa
- AbstractDiscussion forums are an essential part to foster interaction among teachers and students, as well as students and students, in virtual learning settings. If interaction can be enhanced, this has a positive influence on motivation and finally also on dropout rates. These days, a special form of online courses, so-called MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), are popping up massively. Those courses are characterized by a high number of students. In this paper, we would like to examine discussion forums and their role concerning interaction. Therefore, Gilly Salmon’s well-known Five stage model is taken and adapted to MOOCs based on a case study. As a method, we tracked learners’ data through learning analytics applications and concluded that there is a positive correlation between reading from one side and writing in forums from the other side.
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