Share Paper: Role Play and Student Engagement in Online Discussion

  1. Yu-mei Wang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
Tuesday, June 23 5:25-5:45 PM Room 3

Abstract: Although online discussion holds great potentials in promoting student learning, it remains a challenge to engage students in meaningful discourse. Role play is a popular instructional strategy to engage students in the learning process and has been widely implemented in all disciplines to promote student learning. When students take various roles in learning, they are to assume corresponding positions in exploring and investigating an assigned topic or an issue. Online discussion is a place where students are encouraged to articulate differing thoughts and perspectives. Role play is an excellent tool to promote various student voices. This study is designed to ...