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Homework for Day
4 | Resources
Universities all over the country have spent millions of
dollars on various classroom technologies with the aim of
making learning more interactive. Most course management systems
now include discussion and chat features which are meant to
extend the students' intellectual engagement with course material
and help them to learn through interaction with others even
outside of the traditional classroom. Although no technical
skills are required to create and maintain online discussions,
instructors are still facing pedagogical challenges that require
a conscientious approach and a well-thought-out strategy.
During the course of the workshop, we will model typical
student behaviors and instructor moderation styles in a virtual
environment and discuss best strategies for managing online
interaction and making discussion boards and chat into an
integral part of the overall course design. Besides demonstrating
how discussion and chat features work in Telesis, we will
focus on time management, best uses for these features, ways
of making them more productive, the rhetoric and etiquette
of online spaces, means of encouraging and assessing student
participation, etc.
Please bring some ideas and materials (quotations, images,
etc.) toThursday's session that would be useful in creating
a PowerPoint presentation that will explain to someone outside
your discipline/specialty what the prevailing concerns of
it are.
Also please take a look at the following articles:
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