Online discussion boards are one of the most commonly used activities when it comes to facilitating student engagement in an online environment. There are many benefits of using discussion boards.

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.

Most courses at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) include discussion board assignments each week. In fact, you might have discussion boards in every course of your degree program. So, why are ...

Why Are Class Discussions Challenging? There are a variety of reasons that class discussions are challenging. It’s not necessarily just students being “lazy”. There could be a lot of real issues and ...

While there are many tools in Blackboard Learn, discussion boards are a staple when we want to foster conversation with students about course content. When crafted to leverage the key aspects of ...

In in-person, remote, and online courses, discussion boards are commonly used to facilitate written discussion among students. But, despite wide use, many students see discussion boards as busy work ...

Discussion boards are chronological records of online conversations about a given topic. Here at the Fool, most of the discussion is about investing or personal finance. We have more than 4,000 active ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are specific strategies, lessons, and tools that you have used to encourage asynchronous classroom discussions in a hybrid or remote learning environment? In the ...

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 ...

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