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Cheng, Cho Kin; Pare, Dwayne E.; Collimore, Lisa-Marie; Joordens, Steve – Computers & Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of voluntary discussion forums in a higher education setting. Specifically, we examined intrinsic forum participation and investigated its relation to course performance across two experiments. In Experiment 1 (N = 1284) an online discussion forum was implemented at the beginning of an…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Exercises, Credits, Program Effectiveness

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