Evaluating Discussion Boards on BlackBoard as a Collaborative Learning Tool A Students Survey and Reflections
This research addresses student engagement in collaborative learning tools for educational settings, but it is incremental as it focuses on a specific course without broader methodological innovations.
The study investigated student perceptions of using Blackboard discussion boards in a junior-level course, finding that students demonstrated understanding and willingness to engage in pedagogy-enhancing activities based on survey feedback and statistics.
In this paper, we investigate how the students think of their experience in a junior level course that has a blackboard course presence where the students use the discussion boards extensively. A survey is set up through blackboard as a voluntary quiz and the student who participated were given a freebie point. The results and the participation were very interesting in terms of the feedback we got via open comments from the students as well as the statistics we gathered from the answers to the questions. The students have shown understanding and willingness to participate in pedagogy-enhancing endeavors.