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Online Discussion and E-Mentoring Strategies in Blended Continuing Education Courses
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Author(s): Lung-Hsiang Wong (National Institute of Education, Singapore)and Chee-Kit Looi (National Institute of Education, Singapore)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 24
Source title:
Comparative Blended Learning Practices and Environments
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Eugenia M. W. Ng (Hong Kong Institute of Education, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-852-9.ch008
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Abstract
This study analyzes online discussions in a course portal that supplemented class discussion in three continuing education courses. Our student groups were full-time professionals who studied on a parttime basis. We use and adapt some elements of Henri’s model for content analysis to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse the online discourse (Henri, 1992). Transcript content analyses show that students’ messages were on-task, thoughtful, and indicative of student-initiated learning and a good amount of peer help. While other studies have studied effective discussion through similar forums or computermediated instruction, we emphasize the role of the e-mentors in promoting and mediating the discussions. We discuss factors that contributed to the effective use of the discussion forums for fostering learning, including e-mentors’ enthusiasm in responding to the messages, and e-mentoring strategies. We also induce several strategies adopted by the e-mentors in facilitating online forum discussions.
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