Hi Caroline,
You bring up a good point, something I have never thought of, about asynchronous posting being used to allow "those who are not so adept to kind of mimick others work until they begin to understand the concepts."
In my own online learning experiences, if I wasn't quite sure what type of response the instructor wanted, I would check out what my classmates had to say before formulating my own discussion response.
At your school, do students have the choice of attending synchronous or asynchronous classes or do all classes used a combined approach?
Thanks for your input… >>>