Design note: Pick a strategy that helps your students reach learning objectives. As you are choosing, think about assessment and work load for each...
Online Discussion Forums (DFs)
- with and w/o choice of guiding questions to process readings - can be set up as closed until initial posting is added
- ice breakers
- FAQs for course/assignment processes - part of communication protocol - for non-personal questions - FAQ first
- learner journals - set up as private DF
- illicit peer feedback
- resource sharing
- get mid-semester feedback - allow anonymous posts in moderated DF
- discussion of course concepts - use well-posed seed questions to get students to consider/solve ill-structured problems - no clear answers - students have to wrestle with underlying concepts
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