Make sure your discussion questions are open-ended and focus on provoking critical thinking and sharing of the students’ own experiences. Students learn a lot from each other, and forums give them a ...

“Discussion enables students to find expression for their own thought, to have it challenged, to place this new idea in relation to the first, and through the resolution of that potential discrepancy, ...

The Discussion tool can be used to encourage users to share thoughts on course material with both instructors and their peers. Creating forums and topics in Brightspace is an effective way for users ...

The video gives an overview of how discussions forums can be used in online teaching and with groups. Note: this video is based on Moodle 3.5 though much of the explanations relate to the updated 3.9.

Google today introduced new tools for website owners, including those running social media sites and discussion forums, who want to better elevate their content in Google’s search results. The feature ...

Read about Ofcom working to issue provisional notice of contravention to suicide forum. Broadband news from the longest running independent information website.

Chat rooms and forums are both methods to communicate with other people over the Internet, but are used in different ways. Whereas chat rooms allow you to communicate with people in real time, forums ...

Reddit shows up 97.5% of the time in Google Search product review queries and accounts for nearly two-thirds of the slots reserved for Google’s Discussions and forums SERP feature, a new analysis ...

Google has had these discussion carousels for the past couple of years. Now Google also spotted a "conversations" box and also a "discussions and forums" box in Google Search. These primarily bring up ...

Apple has teased a forthcoming "major upgrade" to its online forums, with the existing Apple Discussions set to become the new Apple Support Communities, a social network where users can assist one ...