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An experimental case study on forum-based online teaching to improve student’s engagement and motivation in higher education

This article looks at student productivity, engagement, and motiavtion through online forums in comparison to lectures.

There was an increase of early homework submitters when students were in the online forum, in addition to fewer late submissions (reduced to less than 50% late submission rate compared to the regular online homework submission
Majority of regular style homework was submitted on the 7th day, which was the final deadline. Amost none submitted it before day 5. The forum based submissions only had 30% of students wait until day 7 to submit
Students who were asked to do in depth focus on a couple research articles and then give a presentation showed better understanding compared to those asked to write a research paper. They also reported lower stress
Creating blocked work is better, both for final term papers and final presentations. Teachers that require students work on papers in small incriments over a span of time normally find better productivity with less repetition or plagiarism.
Around 80% of students agreed that information diversity could be increased on online discussion and more than 90% agreed that lecture was not enough for learning material
However, the majority preferred to continue with normal lecture and regular homework (80%)

Updated 2021-05-09

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