Structured and unstructured discussion forums as tools for student engagement

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Highlights：

• Students responded positively to discussion forums and found them to be engaging.

• Students found structured forums to be more engaging than unstructured forums.

• Structured forums resulted in using feedback more than unstructured forums.

• Structured forums resulted in modeling more than the unstructured forums.

• Empowerment was similar in both the structured and unstructured forums.

摘要

•Students responded positively to discussion forums and found them to be engaging.•Students found structured forums to be more engaging than unstructured forums.•Structured forums resulted in using feedback more than unstructured forums.•Structured forums resulted in modeling more than the unstructured forums.•Empowerment was similar in both the structured and unstructured forums.

论文关键词：Student engagement,Discussion forums,Structure,Online teaching,Teaching methods

论文评审过程：Available online 21 January 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.037