In this paper, we investigate how the students think of their experience in a junior level course that has a blackboard course presence where the students use the discussion boards extensively. A survey is set up through blackboard as a voluntary quiz and the student who participated were given a freebie point. The results and the participation were very interesting in terms of the feedback we got via open comments from the students as well as the statistics we gathered from the answers to the questions. The students have shown understanding and willingness to participate in pedagogy-enhancing endeavors.
@article{arxiv.1210.1230,
title = {Evaluating Discussion Boards on BlackBoard as a Collaborative Learning Tool A Students Survey and Reflections},
author = {AbdelHameed A. Badawy and Michelle M. Hugue},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.1230},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
5 pages, 12 tables, appears in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Education and Management Technology (ICEMT 2010), Cairo, Egypt November 2010. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1210.1178