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Enhancing Online Class Student Engagement through Discussion

A Case Study on Modern Educational Technology

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Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2012 (ICWL 2012)

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Abstract

Online student engagement is the premise of online learning. This paper firstly stated the characteristic of online engagement and discussion’s key role in enhancing student engagement, and then took modern educational technology’s online theory class as example, designed and implemented the online discussion teaching method, and analyzed the learning effect. The result shows that through online discussion, student engagement, especially behavior and emotional engagement were greatly improved.

This paper was supported by the projects 985 ZB05 and BCA100024.

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  1. Information Technology Department, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

    Fengfang Shu, Chengling Zhao & Liyong Wan

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  1. Software Engineering Department, University of Craiova, A. I. Cuza 13, 200585, Craiova, Romania

    Elvira Popescu

  2. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Qing Li

  3. RWTH Aachen University, Informatik 5, Ahornstr. 55, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Ralf Klamma

  4. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China

    Howard Leung

  5. CELSTEC, Valkenburgerweg 177, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    Marcus Specht

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Shu, F., Zhao, C., Wan, L. (2012). Enhancing Online Class Student Engagement through Discussion. In: Popescu, E., Li, Q., Klamma, R., Leung, H., Specht, M. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2012. ICWL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7558. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33642-3_38

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