It's a strange strange thing, this forum business. I cannot get my head around them. One minute they make me happy, the next sick with worry! The difference between the business school forum (quite technical) and the Science/Health ish forum is amazing.
Anyway, it remains so busy in the second forum that it is very hard to keep an eye on everything. Occasionally there are comments though that I really want to reply to, and so do. At the moment there is quite an interesting chat going on, and there I was happily enjoying it, and then happened to look at a different thread, and realised there are still a lot of people who are unhappy on the forums. I've been thinking about this for ages, and I think maybe it's just the natural way of things when there are so many people on the same forum. People will form groups. I shouldn't expect to be a part of every group, and shouldn't be upset if I realise another group isn't happy with a group that I may or may not be in. If there are hundreds of students, negative comments are unlikely to all be aimed directly at me. Right?! I'm really disappointed to read these other threads though. I think this course should be divided up in future into separate tutor groups, so issues can be raised, discussed, and sorted. What strikes me about this set-up, is that students are all forming like minded groups - which is exactly what I would think this particular course should be avoiding. Tutor groups are so much easier to handle, and there is room for dicussion without it getting out of hand like it does on this forum. I'm so stressed!!! Ha, well actually, I'm not so stressed now I've written this. Apparently there is a cost implication in dividing into smaller groups... I wonder what this would be, because given so many students are taking the course, I can't imagine it would be that extreme. I'm pretty sure it would be worth it. On the other hand, I've quite enjoyed having so many people in the same place all interested in the same thing. You can't have it all. There you go, I've turned it all round now, everything is ok. It is what it is.
