Matt Warren ⚡ on Nostr: Discussion boards have been one of the biggest wastes of time for me in college. The ...
Discussion boards have been one of the biggest wastes of time for me in college. The "discussions" have never felt like real conversation because we're all just trying to hit a metric. I really do put effort into my posts, but it still doesn't feel real. Most responses I get are boring. Usually, people find a worse way to say what I already said and add no value.
It doesn't help that we are generally required to all make an initial post about the same topic.
I'm taking a data visualization course as an elective from the data science program (in my final semester) and it's the first course where the discussion board is somewhat interesting. The difference is that they don't give us a topic. We can choose anything relevant to data science that interests us. This is not only more interesting for me, but also interesting for others to read because it's actually new information.
People are writing about things relevant to the industries they work in and I'm actually learning a lot. I post a lot about emergency medicine, and people find that interesting.
Universities in the US have become so boring. I was told the discussion board requirements at schools come from financial aid requirements for government loans. I haven't confirmed, but doesn't that make sense? Government fiat nonsense makes everything worse.
It doesn't help that we are generally required to all make an initial post about the same topic.
I'm taking a data visualization course as an elective from the data science program (in my final semester) and it's the first course where the discussion board is somewhat interesting. The difference is that they don't give us a topic. We can choose anything relevant to data science that interests us. This is not only more interesting for me, but also interesting for others to read because it's actually new information.
People are writing about things relevant to the industries they work in and I'm actually learning a lot. I post a lot about emergency medicine, and people find that interesting.
Universities in the US have become so boring. I was told the discussion board requirements at schools come from financial aid requirements for government loans. I haven't confirmed, but doesn't that make sense? Government fiat nonsense makes everything worse.