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Online forums

As an OU student you have access to online forums. What can you do to help forums work well?

Find out here about

  • why the OU uses forums
  • the benefits of forums
  • ways to help a forum work
  • typical problems.

Forums give me the chance to think about what I'm going to say - so I find it much easier to make a worthwhile contribution

The Computing Guide has 'how to' instructions for accessing and using the OU's online forums.

Acknowledgements: This section is adapted from a paper by Ben Plumpton, Open University, June 2002.

Download a copy of the original online forum paper (PDF, 55KB 10 pages).

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