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 | |
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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 |