A practical approach to encourage students participation in asynchronous online discussions based on expectancy theory

With the popularity of computers and the Internet, the Internet learning mechanism has become a development trend of Internet applications, and learners can find the course resources of learning on the Internet. However, students generally lack of the intention to use e-learning platform for learning in current e-learning environment. Therefore, this research attempted to adopt the curriculum reward mechanism to encourage learners to participate in asynchronous online discussion platform based on expectancy theory. Through experiment, the results found that learners will enhance the frequencies of course discussion and actively interact with e-learning platform when e-learning platform integrates the curriculum reward mechanism into learning activities.