Before reporting on the interviews it is valuable to consider for a moment the role and nature of the exchange in the discussion forums that the students engaged in. Throughout many of the online forums, each separate course having a four-week forum, the exchange was characterised with a great deal of well-wishing and support. This sense of camaraderie was encouraging for the early stages of the project. However, after a period of time and at the request of the research team, “ethical dilemmas,” after Dysthe (2007), were posted for the students to consider. These proved popular, the hope being that students would engage with the text and that they would develop their ideas. A critical engagement was not anticipated as follow-up readings to the ethical dilemmas were not provided and the availability of posting web links was not considered or provided for. There was, however, in the research forum a sense of opening up and discussing ideas. The discussions were mostly on the choice of topic for the research paper and the difficulties that were being encountered in undertaking a research project. (It should be added that the students had to undertake a 3,500-word research project, of their own choice of topic, as part of the coursework.)