Online discussion forums with embedded streamed videos on distance courses
Existing literature on education and technology has frequently highlighted the usefulness of online discussion forums for distance courses; however, the majority of such investigations have focused their attention only on text-based forums. The objective of this paper is to determine if the embeddin...
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| description | Existing literature on education and technology has frequently highlighted the usefulness of online discussion forums for distance courses; however, the majority of such investigations have focused their attention only on text-based forums. The objective of this paper is to determine if the embedding of streamed videos in online discussion forums generates educational dialogue and consequently the feedback that students need in a Management Accounting Course. The findings suggest some interesting issues, such as: students prefer text answers except in complex questions, and videos never replace text commentaries and explanations, but rather complement them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-991e2400ebff48ba8601dc17778bee092022-12-22T01:27:01ZengOmniaScienceJournal of Technology and Science Education2013-63742014-03-0141253810.3926/jotse.9145Online discussion forums with embedded streamed videos on distance coursesVicenc Fernandez0Pep Simo1David Castillo2Jose M. Sallan3Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTechUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona TechIQS School of Management. Universitat Ramon LlullUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTechExisting literature on education and technology has frequently highlighted the usefulness of online discussion forums for distance courses; however, the majority of such investigations have focused their attention only on text-based forums. The objective of this paper is to determine if the embedding of streamed videos in online discussion forums generates educational dialogue and consequently the feedback that students need in a Management Accounting Course. The findings suggest some interesting issues, such as: students prefer text answers except in complex questions, and videos never replace text commentaries and explanations, but rather complement them.http://www.jotse.org/index.php/jotse/article/view/91Online discussion forumStreamed videoDistance educationEducational feedback |
| spellingShingle | Vicenc Fernandez Pep Simo David Castillo Jose M. Sallan Online discussion forums with embedded streamed videos on distance courses Journal of Technology and Science Education Online discussion forum Streamed video Distance education Educational feedback |
| title | Online discussion forums with embedded streamed videos on distance courses |
| title_full | Online discussion forums with embedded streamed videos on distance courses |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Online discussion forums with embedded streamed videos on distance courses |
| title_short | Online discussion forums with embedded streamed videos on distance courses |
| title_sort | online discussion forums with embedded streamed videos on distance courses |
| topic | Online discussion forum Streamed video Distance education Educational feedback |
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