{"id":247,"date":"2024-01-10T21:05:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T02:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/teachingonlineatbcit\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=247"},"modified":"2024-03-21T19:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T23:05:22","slug":"other-ways-to-keep-students-engaged-using-asynchronous-discussions","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/teachingonlineatbcit\/chapter\/other-ways-to-keep-students-engaged-using-asynchronous-discussions\/","title":{"raw":"Other ways to keep students engaged using asynchronous discussions","rendered":"Other ways to keep students engaged using asynchronous discussions"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\r\n\r\nHere are a few more strategies that you can use to keep your students engaged in the discussion activities:\r\n\r\n<strong>Use students to lead the discussion:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Have students synthesize the weekly postings.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Have students suggest a relevant topic discussion and let them moderate. Students may submit one question to you via e-mail for consideration. You select the question that is most relevant and have the student who submitted the question be the moderator for that discussion.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Assign a group to be the experts on a topic or section. Have them post a question for discussion and lead the discussion. Toward the end of the class discussion, have the discussion leaders summarize and combine points for their classmates.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Promote interaction:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Create debates by having students take sides on an issue and defend their positions. In blended environments you may poll students in class on a particular topic. Then you can have students support their positions in the online discussion area.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Post a number of questions relating to a course topic. Assign students to work in small groups on these questions. Each group will then post their final results to the discussion.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>In blended environments, post a discussion question related to course readings prior to the in-class discussion. You can use comments from the online discussion to generate in-class discussion. This will help students prepare for the face-to-face discussion.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nRegardless of how engaged students are, make sure that you always post a summary or conclusion to the discussion thread, and remember that this can take the form of homework for students.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(The above is adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/tell.colvee.org\/mod\/book\/view.php?id=80&amp;chapterid=58\">Developing and Teaching Online Courses,<\/a> Commonwealth of Learning 2014 and shared as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International)\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<p>Here are a few more strategies that you can use to keep your students engaged in the discussion activities:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use students to lead the discussion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have students synthesize the weekly postings.<\/li>\n<li>Have students suggest a relevant topic discussion and let them moderate. Students may submit one question to you via e-mail for consideration. You select the question that is most relevant and have the student who submitted the question be the moderator for that discussion.<\/li>\n<li>Assign a group to be the experts on a topic or section. Have them post a question for discussion and lead the discussion. Toward the end of the class discussion, have the discussion leaders summarize and combine points for their classmates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Promote interaction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create debates by having students take sides on an issue and defend their positions. In blended environments you may poll students in class on a particular topic. Then you can have students support their positions in the online discussion area.<\/li>\n<li>Post a number of questions relating to a course topic. Assign students to work in small groups on these questions. Each group will then post their final results to the discussion.<\/li>\n<li>In blended environments, post a discussion question related to course readings prior to the in-class discussion. You can use comments from the online discussion to generate in-class discussion. 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