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Does Your Online Course Need a Forum?

LearnDash

Course forums can give learners a reason to come back and stay engaged, but they’re also a lot of work. This is why, for many course creators, the preferred solution is a forum. Forums come in all shapes and sizes. In general, you can classify the type of forum you run as one of the following: Open. Should you start one?

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Why discussion forums are helpful in training

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A discussion forums enables instructor-to-student and student-to-student interaction and is the heart of online training because learners from different locations can easily interact and learn from each other. Furthermore, discussion forums create collaborative learning that adds more uniqueness to your eLearning course.

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How To Create Engaging Discussion Forums

eLearning Industry

This article will discuss innovative ways you can make your discussion forums "the happening place" in your online classroom. The forums are the most interactive part and the heart of your online classroom. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Add Private Forums to Your Courses!

LearnDash

Which brings us to our latest update, an integration… Course Specific Forums with bbPress. For those of you who are not familiar with bbPress , it is a free forum plugin offered by Automattic (the same folks behind WordPress). It’s the same forum plugin we use for our LearnDash support. What is bbPress?

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How to Make Online Courses More Interactive

LearnDash

Let’s explore how you can make courses more interactive by utilizing quizzes, gamification, forums, and more. Gamification Making progress within a course (like completing a section, lesson, topic, or quiz) activates our reward centers. Micro content is an activity or topic that can be completed in a matter of minutes.

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A Student’s Guide to Successful Online Learning

Wizcabin

3) Engage with the Material Active engagement with the course material is vital for understanding and retaining information. Familiarize yourself with the eLearning platform and any associated tools, such as discussion forums, virtual classrooms, or online libraries.

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World Economic Forum: the top 10 skills needed for the future of work

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The second issue of the World Economic Forum’s “Future of Jobs” report predicts the loss of 75 million jobs by 2025. The World Economic Forum advises us on the essential skills to develop today and tomorrow, with predictions for 2022! A positive balance of 58 million jobs; pretty optimistic, right?

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