Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Shaw, University of Southern California; Michael Crowley, University of Southern California; Jaebong Yoo, University of Southern California; Hao Xu, University of Southern California; Jihie Kim, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

4: Average number ofmessages per forum, Total number of messages per forum and Number of students participatingin each forum. As education researchers, our aim is to correlate these numbers to grades, andconstructs such as motivation, and self-efficacy, and to study if participation affects learningoutcomes. Each graph shows bars that correspond to numbers of initial posts, responses and totalposts. The instructor suggested that longer threads might mean more student confusion, andgenerally speaking, more activity means more student problems. He commented that he didn’tneed to see all the forums, only the one theoretical (lecture) forum and the four project(assignment) forums were important. The assignments were mutually exclusive, so he