Thursday 14 May 2009

Evaluation of online learning

In this project we describing the procedures and strategy you applied to evaluate an online learning environment/course, in terms of student performance or effectiveness of the learning environment/course itself this stydy is about An Instructor’s Methods of Facilitating Students’ Participation in Asynchronous Online Discussion
This study by: Department of Educational Technology University of Northern Colorado United StatesResearch Questions
The purpose of this study is to investigate the methods that an instructor can use to facilitate students’participation in online discussion. Three questions are asked in this study:
1. Does the instructor play an important role in facilitating students’ participation in the asynchronous online discussion?
2. What is the best method among the four treatment groups (instructor’s posting the question only, instructor's explanation and expectation, instructor's participation and feedback, and the instructor's use of grading) to facilitate students' participation in the asynchronous online discussion?
3. What is the students’ pattern of participating in the asynchronous online discussion?
Go to this linke for more information:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15426869/Evaluation-of-online-learning

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