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eLearn: Best Practices - Discussion Management Tips for Online Educators
Tips for online facilitators, especially relevant for those used to teaching in a physical classroom who are moving online. Good practical stuff here like saving some of your best stories to re-energize students when motivation is lagging late in the course and preparing discussion questions and replies in advance.
Essential Elements in Designing Online Discussions to Promote Cognitive Presence — A Practical Experience | The Sloan Consortium
JALN article on supporting cognitive presence through designing effective online discussions. The authors goal was to support meaningful interaction in the discussions rather than just playing an "assessment game" where students post the minimum required for grades. The found that discussions did promote cognitive presence and critical thinking. Registration required to read the full PDF article.
The Development Of A Community Of Inquiry Over Time In An Online Course: Understanding The Progression And Integration Of Social | The Sloan Consortium
JALN article on creating a community of inquiry through online discussions, with positive results for students' perceived learning and satisfaction. Specifically, the authors found that, at least in this context, cognitive and teaching presence were correlated with both learning and satisfaction, but social presence only improved satisfaction. Registration required to download the PDF.
Connectivism & Connective Knowledge » At the End of Week Two
Stephen Downes summarizes week 2 of CCK08, including a description of how different the discussions in Moodle and on the blogs are. The Moodle discussion has become very angry and dominated by a handful of people, while the blogs show much more diversity in perspectives.
Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation?
Principles for assessing online discussions and other conversations (blogs, chat, etc.) by coherence, awareness of audience, and diction. Writing for asynchronous discussion isn't the same as writing an essay, and the author argues that students who simply post essays to the discussion board should receive good grades.
Top News - Online insight: Challenges beat cheerleading
Network analysis in online discussions in two classes shows, not surprisingly, that asking probing questions and challenging posts results in more learner engagement than simple "cheerleading" posts like "Great job!"
Working with online learning communities
Best practices for working with online learning communities, including how to work with lurkers who may still be learning even if they aren't actively participating.
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- online learning communities are grown, not built
- online learning communities need leaders
- personal narrative is vital to online learning communities.
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- all you need is love
- control the environment, not the group
- lead by example
- let lurkers lurk
- short leading questions get conversations going
- be personally congratulatory and inquisitive
- route information in all directions
- care about the people in the community; this cannot be faked
- understand consensus and how to build it, and sense when it's been built and just not recognised, and when you have to make a decision despite all the talking.
He gives a set of mantras for teacher/leaders in any online community:
Let Your Online Learning Community Grow (pdf)
3 Design Principles for Growing Successful Email Listservs and Online Forums in Educational Settings. Even though the technology discussed is a little dated (the paper was written in 1998), the principles for online learning communities are still relevant.
VoiceThreads: Extending the Classroom with Interactive Multimedia Albums | Edutopia
Using VoiceThread as an asynchronous multimedia discussion with sixth graders with great results and conversations from students.
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In his inaugural attempt using the application, Ferriter posted VoiceThreads about a variety of topics online, encouraging students to comment on them voluntarily on their own time. He got dozens -- even hundreds -- of comments on each. It was a revelation. "I can basically extend my classroom," he says.
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Ferriter says more students participate more actively in digital discussions than in the classroom. "You don't have to be the loud one or the popular one," he points out. When he asked his students about their online involvement, he said they cited the sense of safety: "They can think about their comments beforehand."
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Blackboard 7.3 Discussion Board
Changes in the discussion board in Blackboard 7.3, including the grading options
Analysis of Problem-Solving-Based Online Asynchronous Discussion Pattern (PDF)
Research on using online discussions for student problem solving. The study found that problem solving discussions were more helpful for students than typical single topic discussions, but instructors can use strategies to guide discussion and encourage more depth.
Connectivism Positions ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes comments on student work from the course Building Online Collaborative Environments, where students support positions for and against connectivism
Connectivism Blog > Connectivism Positions
George Siemens comments on some of the student work for a course I developed, Building Online Collaborative Environments. The specific assignment is a wiki resource where students defend a position either for or against connectivism.
TAFE VC Virtual Campus: Professional Development Resources
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Resources for online instructors including ideas for discussions, online communication, and increasing interactivity
- christyinsdesign on 2007-09-30
Designing e-learning - Discussion activities
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Guidelines and rationale for online discussions for learning, including ideas for different ways to use discussion boards and links to other sources
- christyinsdesign on 2007-09-30
Lisa’s Online Teaching Blog » Blog Archive » Discussion “Triggers”
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Examples of multimedia "triggers" used to start discussion. This instructor uses multimedia and people's reactions to it to get the ball rolling for a discussion, then redirects it to a deeper level after a few days.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-09-21
Lisa’s Online Teaching Blog » Blog Archive » A Better Discussion
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Description of an approach to discussion boards with a "teaser" to get things started, then a post to weave the previous comments together and bring the discussion to a deeper level. Includes some explanation of why she finds discussion boards in Moodle more rewarding than Blackboard.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-09-21
JOLT: CREST+ Model: Writing Effective Online Discussion Questions
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Model for crafting discussion questions for online courses. Includes examples of several different types of questions.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-07-17
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The CREST+ model, a model
for writing effective online discussion questions,
covers the cognitive nature of the question, the
reading basis, any experiential possibility, style
and type of question, and finally ways to structure
a good question. This model encourages students to
participate in online forum discussions, provides a
template for new online faculty to use in creating
effective discussion questions, and promotes a
higher level processing of the material. -
The CREST+
model covers the cognitive nature of the question [C], the
reading basis [R], any experiential [E] possibility, style
and type of question [ST] , and finally ways to structure
a good question [+].
Web Teaching Articles: Taking discussion online
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Pros and cons of asynchronous and synchronous discussion in online courses. Includes some ideas on how to encourage participation. This is fairly basic and assumes you aren't familiar with these technologies at all, but it is a nice introduction to the options.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-06-07
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