Strategies That Promote Student Learning While Reducing Instructor Workload

From the Online Learning Consortium

In online courses, discussion forums provide a place for student-to-student and instructor-to-student interaction.

Within discussion forums, students share thoughts and review the ideas of others modeled through collegial, dialogic exchanges.

Despite research showing the benefits of discussions for student engagement and learning, these boards are often the bane of an instructor’s online existence. Because of mandated institutional engagement expectations, the discussion boards may take up the bulk of an online instructor’s time.

To help alleviate discussion board burnout, here are some strategies that can be used to promote student learning while reducing instructor workload…

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(on onlinelearningconsortium.org) Online Discussion Boards: Strategies to Ease Instructor Burden and Promote Student Learning →