The study analyzes evidence of how online gradu-ate students perceive antecedents to productive online discus-sion posts and exchanges. It seeks to document how graduate students perceive good and bad discussions (both face-to-faceand online). Through descriptive qualitative analysis we con-sider how graduate students describe online productive social interactions. Graduate student data provide potential elements and Brules^for discussion posts and group work that promotehigher-order cognitive skills. As one graduate student suc-cinctly offered,BI enjoyed reading my classmates’lists, espe-cially because it was so informative to learn what characteris-tics my classmates find most important in regards to discus-sions. This information will help me in how I approach our group work and discussion throughout this class. I was happy for the opportunity to use everyone’s wonderful posts in orderto expand, elaborate, and clarify my own thoughts.

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• Graduate Students’Antecedents to Meaningful and Constructive Discussions: Developing Potential Collaborative Online Interactions