Encouraging Meaningful Online Discussions

“I’ve been using Packback for the last five weeks, and through Packback I’ve seen a huge change in student engagement. There’s stronger engagement. Their responses to others [are] where I see the most engagement. They’re not just doing one sentence. They’re actually coming up with a meaningful connection to the others’ responses and their original discussion post. And overall all, even their original discussion posts are a lot more meaningful. They’re making the personal connections, and they’re making those connections to their lives and their careers and their students’ lives. So they’re really able to make more meaning out of the posts rather than just responding to the original content of the assignment.”