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EdTech provides consulting, training, outreach and educational services
for faculty, instructors and staff using educational technologies.
How
Online Writing Can Enrich Classroom Lectures and Discussions
Robert Baird has been using discussion boards and online writing assignments for almost ten years in his film and cinematography courses. In his brown bag presentation, Robert summarized many of the benefits of online discussion tools that he has discovered over the years. More...
Using Focused Web-based Discussions to Enhance
Student Engagement and Deep Understanding
In this article, Caroline Persell provides a compelling model for using online discussions to improve critical reasoning skills among her students. More...
The
Writing Workshop
The
Writers' Workshop, part of the Center for Writing Studies, provides
free writing assistance for University of Illinois students,
faculty, and staff from all disciplines and at all stages of
the writing process.
ATLAS
Facilitating an Online Discussion
ATLAS provides some good
tips and strategies for online discussions and a guide to campus
discussion resources.
"The
Ebb and Flow of Online Discussions:
What Bloom Can Tell Us About Our Students' Conversations"
by Katrina Meyer.
Meyer argues that the quality of student online discussions are often determined
by the first posting.
Discussion
Board Decision Tree
by Chris Weaver. In this graphical and textual work, Weaver maps the
complex interactions of online discussions.
"Assessment
of Online Discussions"
by Leslie Bowman and George Paris. Bowman and Paris provide an introduction
and some guidelines for assessing student work in online discussions.
"Discussion Boards in Theatre Arts Education:
Help or Hindrance?"
by Sara Rofofsky Marcus. Marcus discusses the impact of
online discussions in her theatre classes. While this is focused on Theatre,
instructors from all disciplines should benefit from her discussion and conclusions.
"Effective Pedagogies for Managing Collaborative
Learning in On-line Learning Environments"
While published
almost seven years ago, this conference paper provides an interesting
and useful discussion of the relation between online discussion
forums and collaborative learning strategies.
Publish
and Flourish; Become a Prolific Scholar
by Tara Gray. This
posting to Stanford University's Tomorrow's Professor Mailing
List describes a method for increasing the output of scholarly
writing by academics. However, this also provides a very good
method for helping undergraduates become better writers.
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