Abstract
<p style="text-align:justify">There are pedagogical challenges for the ideal balance of online community building and interaction among students and instructors for HyFlex learning. One of the challenges focuses on how instructors can effectively select and design an online discussion modality to promote positive, vigorous, and encouraging online asynchronous discussion to engage students. This research study adopted an exploratory mixed method approach designed to investigate student’s satisfaction level and academic performance with different interface design platforms for online discussion in HyFlex delivery modality education courses. Study results indicated that different interface design for online discussion platforms had a significant impact on students’ academic achievement for online discussion assessment although there is no significant impact on students’ overall satisfactory levels toward the courses. Implications from the results suggest a need to design and integrate effective online discussion platform to engage students and promote social learning in HyFlex learning environments.</p>
Highlights
Since March 2020, all schools, colleges, and universities in the United States (U.S.) have been facing the challenge of maintaining the continuity of learning as well as instruction and of providing for the public health and safety of students, faculty, and staff alike
Study results indicated that different interface design for online discussion platforms had a significant impact on students’ academic achievement for online discussion assessment there is no significant impact on students’ overall satisfactory levels toward the courses
Implications from the results suggest a need to design and integrate effective online discussion platform to engage students and promote social learning in HyFlex learning environments
Summary
Since March 2020, all schools, colleges, and universities in the United States (U.S.) have been facing the challenge of maintaining the continuity of learning as well as instruction and of providing for the public health and safety of students, faculty, and staff alike. An unprecedented step to migrate all courses online in response to the global pandemic has been taken. To conduct schools remotely is apparently a simple, immediate, and safe solution (Consortium for School Networking, 2020). Graduate students’ favor on online instruction had been reported. Duffin (2019) reported that a survey showed 52% of the graduate students in the U.S found their online education to provide a better learning experience than their face-to-face instruction Graduate students’ favor on online instruction had been reported. Duffin (2019) reported that a survey showed 52% of the graduate students in the U.S found their online education to provide a better learning experience than their face-to-face instruction
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