Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

10-2019

Abstract

Discussion forums play a key role in building knowledge repositories in an education institute. Asynchronous discussion forums enable part-time graduate professionals to have a better learning experience. This paper reports how a carefully curated discussion forum enhances the cognitive and social interactions among students in a graduate information systems course. In particular, we analyse the cognitive and social interactions and their impact on the student grades. To our surprise, the graduate students with their limited time resources, have higher order cognitive contributions and reasonable amount of social posts. We present the discussion forum design, cognitive and social behaviour analysis, grade analysis, and social network analysis. We use statistical methods and qualitative analysis to present our findings. Our findings provide useful insights that can be used in designing and implementing discussion forums in graduate business-technical courses.

Keywords

Interaction analysis, Online Discussion Forums, Cognitive analysis, Social network analysis

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

2019 49th Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE): Cincinnati, OH, October 16-19: Proceedings

First Page

1

Last Page

8

ISBN

9781728117461

Identifier

10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028485

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028485

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