Improving the Discussion Board
This report contains complete information about the design, offering, and assessment of a new American literature course in order to experiment with improving the discussion board -- including background material, a running narrative, handouts, eight student surveys with responses and commentary, and, especially, annotations of nearly 200 discussion board posts and exchanges.
by
Edward J. Gallagher
Professor of English & Lehigh lab Fellow
Lehigh University
with assistance by
Stephen A. Tompkins
August 2006
For a summary of this project aimed at helping teachers understand and implement the methodology, click here to see the essay "Teaching Students to Talk to Each Other: Improving the Discussion Board."
