With MOOCs, learning outcomes are highly sensitive to the collaborative discourse culture which develops. And to student experiences early in the course. But ti

With MOOCs, learning outcomes are highly sensitive to the collaborative discourse culture which develops. And to student experiences early in the course. But time is short. If setting up culture, modeling and correcting and tuning, takes you a week or few, you've lost scarce time and had suboptimal onboarding. So one strategy is to seed course discussion forums with exemplar content, rather than starting them empty. So there's an existing "established" culture and norms to be read and adapted to. LLMs might help with such. Also more generally - discourse ecology gardening. Moderation, and extrapolations of current bots, but also peer-ish roles, and neighbor-norming, and "avoid things falling through the cracks due to limited available human attention" caretaking.