News Sites Still Figuring Out What to Do With Online Communities. Some interesting implications for learning - participants in news sites visit five times more often when they participate in interactive forums (and view four times as many pages). If those statistics transfer even partially into online courses, there is great motivation to add communities to the instructional process - largely as a means of fostering greater involvement (time on task) with course content.
Posted by gsiemens at August 14, 2003 12:34 PMHi George,
Your comments got me thinking about the differences in quality of the forums in the online courses I'm taking:
http://jeremyhiebert.com/2003_08_01_archive.html#106087665183016841
Thanks for the start...
Jeremy