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Expertly facilitated online discussion is the driving force for community in online classes. Creating norms for discussion quality and timing improve the dialog. This also helps the facilitator step back as students learn to deepen their online dialog.Click here to edit the content 
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These tips can help educators ensure that online discussions are engaging and beneficial for postsecondary students.
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These tips can help educators ensure that online discussions are engaging and beneficial for postsecondary students. Via Peter Mellow
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Published on Jun 7, 2015 Via Faculty Focus
HCL's curator insight,
March 6, 2017 8:20 PM
A little long but raises some valuable points on eliciting effective online discussions...
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Our faculty development unit gathered data from students about how engaged they felt in their online courses.Their comments helped inform our teaching. Via Jim Lerman
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We teach best practices for online teaching in our Graduate Certificate Program at UW-Stout. This article gives you a give overview of those practices.
diane gusa's curator insight,
March 17, 2016 4:53 PM
We teach best practices for online teaching in our Graduate Certificate Program at UW-Stout. This article gives you a give overview of those practices. 
Régis Faubet's curator insight,
March 21, 2016 5:54 AM
We teach best practices for online teaching in our Graduate Certificate Program at UW-Stout. This article gives you a give overview of those practices. 
Alexandria Yaxley's curator insight,
March 22, 2016 4:44 AM
We teach best practices for online teaching in our Graduate Certificate Program at UW-Stout. This article gives you a give overview of those practices.
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![15 Rules of Netiquette for Online Discussion Boards [INFOGRAPHIC] - Online Education Blog of Touro College | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/HG90Nll1xIIkTewhegBvQjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
“Netiquette” refers to rules of etiquette that apply to online communication.
Ellen Comito McKeown's curator insight,
June 24, 2015 11:15 AM
Spells out rules for netiquette. Good way to start out with students who are used to posting on social networks and ranting. In the comments, the college stated that teachers can reprint this for their classrooms as long as they give credit to Touro College.
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Expertly facilitated online discussion is the driving force for community in e-learning classes. Creating norms for discussion quality and timing improve the dialog. This also helps the facilitator step back as students learn to deepen their online dialog.
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Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
October 4, 2014 12:55 PM
A PDF with tons of great insights. |
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Speer isn’t alone in seeking to refresh the discussion forum as the key source of person-to-person interaction in online courses. Educators are pursuing a variety of strategies for fostering student engagement. One approach is to emphasize quality and thoughtfulness of responses over quantity and frequency. Another puts the instructor in the driver’s seat, steering conversations to sharper insights as they might from the front of a classroom.
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Discussion boards can be used for a variety of activities, so why limit ourselves just to discussions, especially if those discussions aren’t creating meaningful student engagement? Via Peter Mellow
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Joe told me that after his high school graduation, he’d put off college because of his fears of the classroom environment. He’d decided to enroll in this, one class at his local community college, because he had the option to take his courses online. Joe loved the online environment, and rather than feeling like it was his second-best option or that he was a second-best learner, he was empowered and eager. I imagined him pursuing his degree while maturity had a chance to do its job, gaining confidence in his ideas in written form first so that he could begin to take more extroverted baby steps in the future.
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Celia's reflections:
"I have had many discussions with students about the protocols on interacting in online spaces in an academic or professional manner. Whether they be commenting on a blog or giving feedback in comments on a Google document or interacting in Edmodo or Google Classroom, students need to be modelled the ‘professional’ way to behave. Commenting within an academic context is in fact providing feedback and as such quite a complicated skill for a young student."
Marla Bucy's curator insight,
April 22, 2016 2:26 PM
This is the kind of information that I think students who must peer review each other's writing would find helpful: This blog entry provides useful adjectives without an overwhelming amount of instruction.
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Discussions are sometimes called the engine of an online course. Discussions provide an opportunity for students to engage with the course content, with each other, and with you—the professor—simultaneously, which means they have a lot of potential for meaningful learning and high retention.
Raj Shekhar Mishra's curator insight,
March 21, 2015 3:12 AM
Discussions have a potential for meaningful learning when properly guided as outlined by Alex Joppie in the article "The Art of the Discussion Prompt".
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Facilitating discussions between students is one of those things that is infinitely easier when you’re teaching in a physical classroom rather than online. When the students are all in one room, discussions happen more naturally. Facilitating the same type of productive, useful discussion when teaching online is more of a challenge.
Irmgard Huppe's curator insight,
November 28, 2014 5:13 AM
short and sharp collection of a few important pointers 
Almudena Rueda's curator insight,
February 7, 2015 1:17 PM
Another great Infographics from Edudemic.
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Although there are many documented advantages of learning online, some educators still question this innovative way of teaching because of technical obstacles, because they suspect or doubt its effectiveness, or because they are unfamiliar with the approach. Indeed, the teaching considerations for an online course, versus a traditional in-residence-based course, do change by necessity because of the different learning environments.
Making traditional course material digital, converting lectures to streaming video, and assigning tests or writing assignments online are not enough to convert the full classroom experience into avirtual one.
What is lacking in the virtual setting is the dynamic interchange among students and instructors. Although their concerns are valid, in-residence educators should find solace in learning that one of the most fundamental forms of teaching, the student-peer discussion facilitated by a knowledgeable instructor, remains as valid for mature-student distance learning today as it was for Socrates. This venerable method remains effective for online students for the same reasons it works in the classroom — because the discourse among students actually builds knowledge and keeps learning focused on their needs. Online, this Socratic method of teaching, also known as a “threaded discussion” or a “forum,” is an excellent distancelearning tool. All online instructors should consider using this method.
online4ed's curator insight,
October 7, 2014 9:37 AM
Why I work so hard to help students realize the more they put in to the class, the more they will get out! 
David Bramley's curator insight,
October 7, 2014 7:05 PM
The go-to activity for most teachers looking to add an activity to their online offering is the forum. But the activity is often ill thought through, the teacher doesn't participate themselves and as a result the forum fails to launch!
This post looks at threaded discussions and how teachers can use them to facilitate peer to peer discussion that will add value to the learning experience. Highly recommended 
Deborah Eastwood's curator insight,
October 12, 2014 1:15 PM
Understanding the importance of the discussion board in the online classroom.
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Too often, instructors get caught up in seeing forums as a quantitative measure of how much a student has learned, gauging understanding by replying with prompts that are, frankly, as boring or as tedious as some of the material students have been asked to read.
These conversations between students have more depth and more personality because they are creating, building, having fun and interacting. They are not just replying to a prompt. They are using their imaginations. The process brings an energy and passion that engages them.
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