One thing I believe is a great benefit of offering discussion boards as part of an online class is that it allows for students to really have open discussions about their topics with other students in the class. It helps them to understand the topics being discussed and help each other out as well.
If I was a teacher I would probably have a discussion board available for students to post questions and comments as well as have a night of open discussions where students could come and discuss a topic they wished to learn more about or wished to discuss more about. I would also use it as a question and answer period where I would also be online for students to get extra help from me.
A problem I think teachers might find with providing this is that students would end up just using it as a regular chat and not for class purposes. I also think that teachers would have difficulty controlling the content of which would go on these discussion boards, which would end up being useless.
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