Impact of Discussion Forums on the Final Scores of Post Graduate Students at Open University Malaysia

Purushothman Ravichandran, and Kaur, Abtar (2013) Impact of Discussion Forums on the Final Scores of Post Graduate Students at Open University Malaysia. ASEAN Journal of Open Distance Learning, 5 (1).

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Abstract

At Open University Malaysia (OUM), online discussions serve as a bridge between the face-to-face and virtual lessons. However, for the Master of Instructional Design and Technology (MIDT), the online discussions are the lifeline of students and facilitators as the discussion forum is a place where high level asynchronous communications are triggered. As such it is important to identify such interactions and determine if there is a significant impact on the final grade achieved by students. In this study, an attempt was made to analyse the discussion forum using the Ning social networking site (http://hmid6303.ning.com). A total of 14 students enrolled for the fully online MIDT course offered by OUM. The findings from normality test results (Shapiro-Wilk) indicate that the forum scores were normally distributed (significance value >0.05) and final score shows some deviation from normality (significance value <0.05). (Abstract by authors)

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Master of Instructional Design and Technology (MIDT),
Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1028 Research - Education
Depositing User: Shahril Effendi Ibrahim
Date Deposited: 17 Feb 2014 05:44
Last Modified: 17 Feb 2014 05:44
URI: http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/id/eprint/931

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