The sky outside your dorm window darkens and the words on the textbook page begin to swim together. It’s midterm season, but you can feel comprehension slipping away – you need a study buddy even more ...

Educators see the value in asynchronous online forums in distance-learning education. They use them to encourage student engagement with, and discussion of, the course content; they see students using ...

CourseForum Technologies reported on Wednesday that CourseForum 3.4 and ProjectForum 3.4, their Web-based applications for educational and business collaboration, are now available. Both can be hosted ...

People often ask me to name my favorite online teaching tool. My answer is always the same: Hands down, it’s online discussion forums. As a veteran online teacher, I view discussion forums as the meat ...

(Note: This story has been updated. See the bottom of the post for the most recent update.) A massive open online course instructor was removed from his own course last week -- or was he? As confusion ...

Meet Jill Watson, a first-time teaching assistant at Georgia Tech assigned to moderate an online forum for a computer science class. Jill was 1 of 9 TAs assigned to help answer questions about ...

CourseForum Technologies announced on Monday that CourseForum and ProjectForum have been updated to version 3.5. The new editions of their collaboration tools for education and business use, ...