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 |
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| 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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