It Takes Two: Online and In-person Discussions Offer Complementary Learning Opportunities for Students.

ABSTRACT: Discussions play a significant role in facilitating student learning through engagement with course material and promotion of critical thinking. Discussions provide space for social learning where ideas are deliberated, internalized, and knowledge is cocreated through socioemotional interactions. With the increase of internet-based and hybrid courses, there is a need to evaluate the degree to which online discussion modalities facilitate quality discussions and enhance student achievement. We assessed the effectiveness of asynchronous online discussion boards and traditional face-to-face discussions via qualitative (thematic coding and discussion network analysis) and quantitative (Bloom's taxonomy) techniques and evaluated student perceptions via precourse and postcourse surveys. We found

SUBMITTER: Garces KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11440744 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature