Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Instructional Strategies - in progress...

I thought it might be helpful to start a list of different instructional strategies that I've been exposed to so far in my travels...

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

No comments: