The Impact of Q&A Forums’ Level of Elaboration on Students’ Learning
Eric Zhi Feng Liu, Shan Shan Cheng, Sherry Y. Chen, Bo-I. Chen · Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences · 2012
Recently online discussion forums have become alternative information resources for student learning. This paper investigated the influences of the quality of online discussion forums on students’ discussion behaviors and learning performance. The statistical results revealed that students would have better learning performance and more discussion behaviors when an elaborated online discussion forum was provided as a learning resource.