%A Richard Ng
%T Online Discussion Forum: What tutors and they do it? An analysis of Management Mathematics course and community of inquiry concept
%X Using the Online Discussion Monitoring software, an analysis was conducted on the online
discussion forum for a mathematics course involving 34 tutors and 1350 learners of Open
University Malaysia enrolled in the January 2008 semester. The contents of four tutors
selected randomly from this forum were then analyzed using the concept derived from
Community of Inquiry (COI) Model to find the teaching, social and cognitive presence. The
forum contents of four other courses from the business faculty were also analyzed and a
comparison was made. The results obtained showed that most participants in the
mathematics course tend to be active within the first two tutorials irrespective of whether the
tutors are active participant or not. The COI score obtained for the mathematics course
indicated that the teaching and cognitive presence is low compared to reading courses. (Author's abstract)
%C The Saujana, Kuala Lumpur
%D 2008
%K Online Discussion Forum ; Community of Inquiry ; Mathematics ; Teaching Presence ; SocialPresence ; Cognitive Presence
%P 1-6
%L library_repository199