In class and online: using discussion boards in teaching.

摘要: Discussion boards provide instructors a unique opportunity to extend their classrooms into cyberspace. This article offers some observations about student behavior in these online forums and practical suggestions for the instructor, including creation of rules structure environment, factors influencing participation, strategies facilitating discussion. Critical concepts understanding effective functioning groups, such as confidentiality, disinhibition effect, integration in-person settings, also are explored.