2012•Procedia - Social and Behavioral SciencesOpen access

The Impact of Q&A Forums’ Level of Elaboration on Students’ Learning

Eric Zhi Feng Liu, Shanshan Cheng, Sherry Y. Chen, Bo-I. Chen

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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.

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Key concepts: Elaboration, Quality (philosophy), Psychology, Online discussion, Online forum, Online learning, Resource (disambiguation), Computer science