Benefits of Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussions.

Despite numerous arguments favoring active learning, especially class discussion, instructors sometimes worry that discussion is an inefficient or ineffective way for students to learn. What happens when students make non-value added, irrelevant, or inaccurate contributions? What about comments from non-experts that may obfuscate rather than clarify understanding? What about students who speak only to earn participation credit rather than contribute substantively to the discussion? Acoording to this, there is the reason why the teacher must have to provide to all the students the correct information. Also, teachers can ask for read a little article and then, write a explanation about it. Another things is, that learners can practice in a forum online discussions by posting what they read or what they know about certain topic.

The students further articulated five ways that participation enhances learning. To summarize, participation:

• increases engagement;
• helps students retain and remember information;
• confirms what they have already learned;
• provides clarification of prior learning; and
• deepens their understanding especially through hands-on and application-based learning opportunities.