Particle" or "fragment" is one of the key notions for the ongoing fever of online courses design and management. However, hidden behind the wide adoption of the practice of delineating the course contents into separated "fragments" lies voices of disagreement and refutations. This article, accordingly, is intended to address one of the most controversial issues in this regard, namely, the nature of "fragment" and the mechanisms that account for the its applications. By taking the online course

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... f Chinese Menglong Poetry (or Misty Poetry) the author is experimenting with at a China's university, this article draws a tentative conclusion that the notion of "fragment" is innately semantically complex and any simplistic approach is likely to end up in misinterpretation and misconduct in terms of how an academically rigorous course is to be constructed online.