Didactic and content tasks
Organizational and management tasks
Didactic and content tasks
- Formulate clear learning objectives and methods from the start
- Make the advantages for participants clear
- Set clear assignments/questions that are open/complex enough to obtain varied answers
- Provide material for the preparation
- Ask participants to take specific points of view or roles
- Clarify any content-related misunderstandings
- Offer opportunities to ask content-related comprehension questions
- Ask more probing questions
- Relate contributions to each other through questions
- Ask questions to clarify contributions
- Welcome diverse opinions
- Treat errors as learning opportunities
- Lead back to the topic
- Prepare and highlight (interim) summaries
- Conclude by situating contributions in context
- Set summarizing assignments
- Provide background reading
- Link asynchronous forums with synchronous sessions
Organizational and management tasks
- Draw attention to forum via push message
- Welcome participants
- Explain the forum’s basic functions and, if necessary, practice using these together (e.g., display settings, subscribing, only display new entries, cite, edit)
- Set rules for communication and ensure compliance with these
- Announce your own processing times
- Outline opportunities for asking organizational comprehension questions
- Clarify any organizational misunderstandings
- Provide the details of a person to contact in case of technical issues
- Outline the options for contacting teaching staff
- Set assignments for participants
- Provide information on the scope and structure of responses
- Form working groups
- Outline the procedure and scheduling incl. processing deadlines and ensure compliance with these
- Relocate posts that are incorrectly located in a thread
- Make contributors aware of “incorrect thread headings”
- Conclude discussions