Open AccessESSENTIAL ELEMENTS IN DESIGNING ONLINE DISCUSSIONS TO PROMOTE COGNITIVE PRESENCE — A PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
Author(s) -
Yumei Wang,
Victor Der-Thanq Chen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
online learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2472-5749
pISSN - 2472-5730
DOI - 10.24059/olj.v12i3-4.1690
Subject(s) - online learning , learning design , focus group , instructional design , psychology , cognition , focus (optics) , face (sociological concept) , online course , computer science , mathematics education , multimedia , sociology , social science , physics , neuroscience , anthropology , optics
Online discussions have been increasingly integrated into face-to-face classes at universities to enhance student learning of course content. The primary focus of past research has been on the end products of online discussions. Studies reported either successful findings or results that fell short of desired learning outcomes. An in-depth investigation is needed about how the design of online discussions is related to success. This paper reports our experiences in conducting a three-phase, design-based study: (1) designing the online discussion activity; (2) implementing our design in a university course; (3) empirically investigating our design.