Mandatory discussions and the participation points which are usually associated with them are absolutely unnecessary and downright silly in a collegiate institution of the University of Wisconsin’s ...

Participation in a discussion board is among the most common assignments in online courses. We typically ask our students to respond to a reading or a prompt and then reply to several of their ...

We’ve all been there: rewording a classmate’s post just enough to hit the word count on a discussion board. Usually, we start with “Great point!” and then proceed to paraphrase their entire argument.

The word “effervescent” doesn’t often pop up in ordinary conversation, but it’s burrowed its way into the chitchat lexicon. Harvard’s admissions guidelines (since revised), released in the recent ...

Long time WebmasterWorld moderator, martinibuster, has an excellent blog post named Growing Forum Participation followed up with an excellent summary of the blog post at WebmasterWorld named Growing ...