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What is Online Forum

Chapter 23
Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services
A forum is a sort of online messages board where users can post new messages and respond to existing ones. Being an asynchronous communication tool, users can take all the time they want preparing a new message or an answer before posting it to the forum.
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E-Learning and Solidarity: The Power of Forums
Rui Alberto Ferreira Jesus (Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique, Portugal) and Fernando Joaquim Lopes Moreira (Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-650-1.ch023
Abstract
This chapter explores solidarity as a social dimension in the context of e-learning and the Semantic Web. Its aim is to explore where the students show more solidarity with each other—in online learning environments or in offline settings? In the context of this chapter, the term “solidarity between students” means the sharing of useful resources between group members. Online forums are the major Web service that we shall use to support solidarity online. In online forums, we can ask complex semantic questions knowing that someone will understand the meaning of the question and hopefully will give us a good answer to it. Add to forums the possibility of annotation with metadata and we can also depend on them to retrieve meaning rich historical information. The research is based on case studies with focus groups conducted with Portuguese higher education health students.
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The Collaborative Digital Content Library Fostering Faculty Members' Collaboratively Building Learning Sources
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Toward Theory and Technique for Online Focus Groups
This is a virtual board where participants can interact without their having to be online at the same time (asynchronous communication), as they write their messages and read others’ over periods of time that can vary from 4 days to several months.
Published in Chapter: Toward Theory and Technique for Online Focus Groups; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies: Innovations, Methods, and Ethical Issues
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