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Module 3: Activities - Discussion- & Team-Based

Aims

  • Participants will review and discuss effective practices for designing online discussion-based activities that align with course learning aims, engaging students in activities/assignments that let them explore, apply, demonstrate, stretch, and share their learning with peers and instructors.
  • Following the 11 November, participants will consider the roles that feedback and evaluation play in discussion-based learning activities.

Resources

So that participants might consider both learning theory and discussion strategies, the pre-webinar resources address learning in an online context, and showcase examples of low, medium and higher stakes discussion-based learning activities. The following resources are collected together in a Google Drive folder at z.umn.edu/Module3folder:

  • The Art and Science of Successful Online Discussions - 3 pgs
  • Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology, Miller - 3 excerpts, totaling 9 pgs
  • Generating and Facilitating Effective Online Discussions - 7 magazine style pages
  • Re-Imagining Discussion Boards as Interactive Spaces - 3 pg excerpt
  • Discussion Post Assignment - Marilea example - 2 pgs
  • How Many Faculty Discussion Posts Each Week? - 2 pgs
  • Planning and Facilitating Online Discussions ~ 6 minutes

Webinar Resources