Online discussion forums are asynchronous communication tools that are widely used in Learning Management Systems. However, instructors and students face various difficulties, and instructors lack a guide on what strategies they can use to achieve a more participatory forum environment. This work aims to identify benefits and difficulties of using online discussion forums from the instructors’ point of view, and to provide a list of strategies and improvements that can mitigate the challenges and lead to a more participatory forum. We used coding procedures to analyze data collected through semi-structured interviews. The results of our exploratory analysis are relevant to the distance learning community and can inform instructors, developers, and researchers to help them improve the quality of mediation and use of forums.

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期望什么，以及如何改善在线讨论论坛：教师的观点

在线讨论论坛是异步通信工具，在学习管理系统中广泛使用。但是，讲师和学生面临各种困难，讲师缺乏有关他们可以使用哪些策略来实现更具参与性的论坛环境的指南。这项工作旨在从讲师的角度确定使用在线讨论论坛的好处和困难，并提供一系列战略和改进措施，以减轻挑战并导致更具参与性的论坛。我们使用编码程序来分析通过半结构化访谈收集的数据。我们的探索性分析结果与远程学习社区相关，并且可以告知讲师，开发人员和研究人员帮助他们提高调解和使用论坛的质量。