Skipping the online discussions for EC classes

[Tedium]

Am I the only person who has considered doing this? I'm retaining less information trying to keep up with these discussions than I would be if I just ignored them altogether. I'm more interested in passing the class and retaining what I'm self teaching myself instead of trying to keep up with APA formats, citing references, maintaining a perfect GPA, and basically making myself visible. Has anyone else had this issue or am I that antisocial? I'm not trying to be rude or difficult :-(

I'm also not trying to be rude, but you may have more of a problem than you think if responding to a discussion board is preventing you from retaining learned material. What I find to be a drag is when classmates do not want to start a discussion and everything is "Great post!" That does not inspire me to want to respond to anyone. I think that is the weakest link in distance education, really.

Aside from that, it's just one of those necessary evils. We all do it so that we can get a good grade and get the hell out. Part of passing the class, like you say you want to do, is jumping through certain hoops. This is just one of them. If you were required to write "mini-essays" every week then I could see how that would be problematic, but its just a discussion board post. It's really not all that different from posting to this or any other message board. That's how I have always looked at it anyway.