Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Discussion boards

Katrina Meyer wrote (as part of her journal article)

If you are considering undertaking research or assessment of student online discussions, be prepared. It is difficult and frustrating, intellectually demanding and demanding of one's time. Nevertheless, additional evaluations of online discussions are needed: we need to know if our current theories of learning and discussion apply to learning and discussion online, whether our decisions as instructors and designers of online activities are having the result intended, and how we can make improvements in practice so that future online discussions are better than those that have gone before.


I fully agree with these comments as many of the studies I have read are in a similar vein and it would be good to see a range of studies that show how we can make improvements to enhance the learning in this environment.

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