Triads

Technology or other important resources in use

Activity- something educationally important that is done with the technology and other resources (often, in order to achieve the outcome)

Likely outcome or objective of the action (may also be a goal or a negative outcome)

 Media center

 Faculty member posts materials online--> all students get the materials when they need them [ look at WebCT data to see if students are all downloading the presentations]--> students read the materials -->

 Students learn content at least as well as they would have from a f2f lecture

 Discussion board

Students read learning objectives relevant to the discussion

Faculty posts challenging questions --> students see the questions as challenging--> Students choose a question and answer --> post comments about other students' answers

This needs to be done within the timeline

Students take more time to think of their comments than they would in a classroom

Students can speak without worrying about interrupting others

more convenient for students to participate

Less intimidation than in a face to face classroom

Develop skills of interacting

Skill of asking questions

Skill of finding solutions to historical questions

[Students develop more of a desire to learn: does their behavior go beyond what's required]

Students learn from each other [instructor look at the comments and evaluate them qualitatively]

[ask students whether they learned from each other]

[compare this course with other courses you've taken that have about 40 students and meet face to face: in this course, compared with those courses, how much did you learn from other students: much more/more/about the same/less/much less; not applicable}

[ask students what other students contributed most to their own learning]

[ask each student to create a test question on what that student 'taught' the course [how much time did students spend on the BBS; relation to course grade?][

Weaker students learn from stronger students [do an experiment during the course: do a pretest, have a discussion, and then do a post-test]

Students don't hate online learning of this type  [students go beyond what's required]

Student discussion matures to the point where it's as 'deep' as a small f2f seminar of students of this calibre

 Students pose own questions

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