Online Discussions

January 25, 2016

7 Tips To Use Blogs In eLearning Course Design

Blogs in eLearning are no longer just for personal sharing and expert opinions. In fact, they can be a powerful and versatile tool in your next eLearning course. In this article, I will explore 7 ways to include blogs in eLearning experiences.

by Christopher Pappas

August 16, 2015

7 Tips On How To Use Forums In eLearning

Forums in eLearning allow learners to connect and collaborate in eLearning environments, making them an ideal addition to both asynchronous and synchronous instructional strategies. In this article, I’ll offer 7 tips that can help you integrate forums into your next eLearning course.

by Christopher Pappas

August 13, 2015

4 Fleeting Icebreaker Adjectives

Asking students to identify themselves in four icebreaker adjectives can be a part of a welcome online discussion that leads them to read the online course syllabus and explain which two learning objectives they like most. It is a great technique that increases student engagement. This is how it works.

by Oliver Hedgepeth

June 6, 2015

10 Netiquette Tips For Online Discussions

As an online learner, you already know that participating in your eLearning course online discussions contributes to your critical thinking and writing skills' development. However, there is a netiquette code for online discussions too. In this article, I’ll share the 10 top netiquette tips for participating in online discussions, so that you will be able to make the most of your eLearning experience.

by Christopher Pappas

April 12, 2015

The ABCs Οf High Quality Online Discussions

Discussion boards, or threaded discussions, are probably one of the most commonly used tools in online learning. They provide the means for asynchronous discussion to occur over a period of time. It is critically important to encourage conditions and behaviors for successful learning in discussion forums.

by Dr. James W. Brown

March 2, 2015

Helping Learners Get The Most Out Of Online Discussions

Online discussions are the lifeblood of an online class. Without rich, ongoing discussions, learning is minimized. However, many online courses don’t help online learners understand how to post a new idea or response; the types of communications or posts that contribute to learning or share examples of good posts. As a result, online learners are often left to their own devices with many online discussions stalling or sinking to a level of mediocrity.

by Mary Burns

January 30, 2015

How To Encourage Continuously Interactive Online Discussions

Ever get tired of grading posts at 11:00 pm on a Sunday night as the last students desperately try to finish the week’s discussion question with just minutes remaining? Looking for ways to keep a more even flow of posts and better interactions among your students? This article shares two techniques to develop better learning communities with more and better interactions among students in online discussions.

by Tony Birch

December 20, 2013

How To Improve Online Discussion Posts

Minor changes may help your online course become more successful or easier to navigate. Upon completing an online course, take a little time to reflect on the class. An unscientific experiment allowed this author to better understand student engagement between video discussion posts and typed discussions.

by Douglass Bourne

October 11, 2013

Secondary LMSs Are Not Necessarily Aligned To “College And Career Readiness”

Secondary Blended education classes notoriously fall short of developing online community. The standard by which all college courses find success is online student collaboration. One teacher has found an answer to getting students to chat about discussion questions.

by Russ Elburn

November 25, 2012

Blogs And Education: What Is The Big Deal?

Blogs constitute a digital asynchronous tool, which makes it an environment very suitable for the management of knowledge and that is a reason that blogs are considered to be strong pedagogical tool. Would you be interested to know how to use blogs in education?

by Maria Manolopoulou