Online Discussion and Learning Outcomes

Reading Strategies and Learning outcomes

Enhancing Collaborative Learning through Online Discussion and Peer Assessment

Collaborative learning is one of the many student-centered approaches that matches with the philosophy of contemporary perspectives on learning and teaching aiming to promote higher achievement, more positive interpersonal relationships and greater psychological health. The author attempts to examine if the Web can promote collaborative learning. Thirty-four pre-service student teachers partici...

Effect of online discussion forum in blended learning mode

The online discussion forums are popular platforms for information exchange and problem solving, which play an important role in blended learning mode, which is made up of SPOCs (Small Private Online Courses) and traditional classroom learning. However, very few studies have been published on the effect of online discussion forums in blended learning. In this study, we collected a comprehensive...

Online student centred discussion: Creating a collaborative learning environment

Many universities both in Australia and overseas are increasingly transferring courses and programs at both graduate and undergraduate level into fully interactive online environments. Online learning and teaching requires different and complimentary skill sets on the part of university teachers. Very little has been documented thus far in regard to training university academics to teach effect...

All Aboard - Destination Unknown: A Sociological Discussion of Online Learning

This paper is an attempt to describe the emergence and growing popularity of online distance education over the past 30 years through changing sociological lenses. Examining the re-casting of the electronic classroom through the euphoria of techno-positivism, the power-embedded analysis of Critical Theory of Technology (CTT), and the critique of postmodernism, the paper addresses the implicatio...