P13 DDL: Building Relatedness Through Hashtags: Motivation Within A Social Media Online Discussion Forum

• In Event: Posters - Thursday
  In Poster Session: Posters I - DDL

Short Description

The purpose of this study is to investigate the motivation of students participation in an online discussion forum when it is moved from an LMS to a social media/Web 2.0-based learning environment created using hashtags. This study will focus on the use of a hashtag in a blended learning classroom as a means of grouping together discussants in a series of instructional technology courses for a required class discussion in an asynchronous online course.

Author

• Lucas Jensen, The University of Georgia