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lurking  

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  • Lurking is the practice of reading messages that have been contributed to a discussion area or bulletin board in an online course, but not posting messages oneself. Students who lurk in a discussion will typically read all, or most, messages, but contribute nothing of their own. [Source: Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning; Lurking]

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