Table 10 Mapping Difficulties in the interview and literature
From: What to expect, and how to improve online discussion forums: the instructors’ perspective
| Categories | Difficulties | Don’t have in the Literature | Difficulties references | Improvements references | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accompaniment | Difficulty in following the forum | [2, 18, 40, 57] | |||
| There are no resources to assist the instructors | [13, 15, 56, 57] | ||||
| Difficulties to view messages | |||||
| There are no stats on the forum | x | x | x | ||
| There are no specific reports | x | x | x | ||
| Structural | Instructors feel difficulties with forum structure | [12, 16, 17, 41, 43, 44, 57] | [55] | ||
| Students have difficulty with the structure of the forum | |||||
| Students have difficulty constructing the discussion | |||||
| Lack of visualization tools and flexibility | x | x | x | ||
| Difficulty sending file (audio, video) | x | x | x | ||
| Difficulties in putting students’ grades | x | x | x | ||
| Delay in the update of comments | x | x | x | ||
| Motivation | Difficulty to provide student feedback | [4, 11,12,13, 16, 18,19,20, 44,45,46,47,48, 50, 52, 54] | [14, 44, 54] | ||
| Students do not use the forum | |||||
| Lack of collaborative resource | |||||
| The forum is not current | |||||
| Structural and Motivation | Difficulty with forum interface | [12, 16, 49, 50] | x | ||
| Students prefer to use social media than the forum | x | ||||
| The forum is not like social media | Like Facebook | x | x | x | |
| Integrate with WhatsApp | x | x | x | ||