Forced participation
So I’m attending the University of Phoenix’s online program. Generally, pretty good. To keep everything lively and interpersonal, we usually have some sort of participation requirement. Something like 2 comments, 4 days a week. Given the online context, I’d say that’s reasonable, yes?
However, my current class has an additional requirement that each comment must be 200 words. When responding to someone else’s thoughts/answers, there seems to be a big difference between 100 and 200 words, let me tell you. But it seems that most people (and I will probably be in this boat myself) still write about 100 words of quality and then beef it up with another hundred of filler. It’s kind of a joke.
Not only that, but then I have to go and read everyone else’s comments too. This is going to be a long five weeks until I get to my next course.
(153, by the way.)
