Why online discussion boards suck, and what to do about it
4 min readOct 13, 2020
Students at colleges around the country are told to participate, but why?
Since the dawn of online classes, the goal of college professors has been to somehow duplicate the excitement of classroom discussion. With the advent of the Read-Write Web (Web 2.0) fifteen years ago, the threaded discussion forum became popular, and immediately the pattern was set.