Temperate rainforest andes

Answer 1

Have you ever taken an online course? What was your experience like? What did you notice about the discussion board area? These are questions that are typically asked prior to facilitating an online course. Most online courses will have online class discussions that will need to be facilitated. There are three strategies that can be used to facilitate online class discussions. These strategies include the following:

1. Participate Daily: Often times, individuals are able to participate whenever they desire as long as it is within the established deadline. When facilitators participate on a daily basis, this allows him or her to respond to more students and stay abreast of the types of discussions that are being conducted on the discussion forum. For example, facilitators can use this time to make a list to ensure that they are responding to each learner at least once throughout the learning week. Another way that facilitators can participate daily is by taking one day to grade student’s work.

2. Ask Questions when Responding to Learners: Each learner will meet or exceed the discussion board requirements. Facilitators can drive the quality of learner’s response by asking questions. For example, a learner was required to identify the definition of copyright and provide two examples of when individuals should copyright their work. The Facilitator for this particular discussion discovered that some of the learners were only adding the definition of copyright. Therefore, this was a great opportunity to ask questions when responding to the learner to help expand his or her ideas to meet the discussion board requirements.

3. Add New Questions to the Discussion:As facilitators are reading learner’s comments, they may realize that there is an opportunity to add additional discussion questions that can add more value to the class discussion. These questions can be centered on the course objectives or simply additional food for thought.

These are three strategies that can be utilized to facilitate online class discussions. Each of these strategies will help both facilitators and students have a great learning experience that fosters both their critical and creative thinking skills in the process.