Improving effectiveness of dialogue in learning communities : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Ph. D. in Information Systems at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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2009
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Massey University
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In a learning community, conventional discussion forums are integral to webbased
interventions in traditional classrooms as well as on-line learning
environments. Despite popular belief that they are a great success in fostering
deep and meaningful discussions and support active learning; research has
found that there are millions of messages posted by users to express such an
opinion, but it is hard to be directly delivered to all users. Finally there are
millions of postings in databases across the country stored away and never
reused. This thesis introduces a PhD student’s current research work. It
proposes a distributed intelligent discussion forum system dedicated to
supporting both students and teachers. The system is developed with the
primary goal of reducing the number of problems associated with
conventional discussion forum systems in web-based environments and
improving the effectiveness of dialogue between students with each other and
with teachers so that it can enhance each individual student’s ability to share
and learn knowledge.
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Online learning environments, Internet discussion forums, Distance education, Information systems