http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/online-education Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:22:53 -0400 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:22:53 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/414/using-online-forums-in-language-learning-and-education By Manprit Kaur - The online forum is an ideal place to put a learning community and its learning objects on the same page (Harman and Koohang 2005). In order to offer a successful discussion forum, teachers need to be fully skilled in practical use of the sites and committed to engaging with them, believing in their relevance and benefit for students and willing to spend dedicated time every week on the discussion forum with students. As Salmon (2004) advises, teachers need to take time to induct students to the online discussion tools and focus on familiarization and socialization into the online forum from the... Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:52 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/414/using-online-forums-in-language-learning-and-education