Online formal course meetings

Jon Dron, Judith Masthoff

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingPublished conference contribution

Abstract

This paper discusses the implementation of an online course board, an attempt to conduct formal course meetings using simple web-based threaded bulletin board technologies. This technique seeks to address some of the problems of conventional meetings where individuals can dominate proceedings, most attendees waste much of the time being bored and there is a heavy investment of time and money for little direct benefit. Although it provides solutions to some of the problems of traditional face to face meetings, the online discussion mechanism suffers from a number of weaknesses which negate many of the potential advantages. The paper ends with a glimpse of some potential solutions to these weaknesses.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 4th Annual LTSN-ICS conference
Subtitle of host publicationAug 2003, Galway, Ireland
Pages207-211
Number of pages5
Publication statusPublished - 2003
Event4th Annual LTSN-ICS conference - Galway, Ireland
Duration: 1 Aug 20031 Aug 2003

Conference

Conference4th Annual LTSN-ICS conference
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityGalway
Period1/08/031/08/03

Keywords

  • e-learning
  • course management
  • adaptive hypermedia
  • content-based filtering

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