Daily Archive: January 21, 2013

Jan 21

Day 12: Nurturing a Lively, Vibrant Online Discussion

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Your online discussion forums and any live sessions you conduct are a critical component of your “faculty presence” and “learning community” in your online courses (Swan, 2002; Gosmire, Morrison & Van Osdel, 2009). In classes where there is no interaction, students frequently complain that they feel like they did not “get anything” for their money. …

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