Discussions: Creating and Facilitating Online Discussions

• Introductions

• Poll

• Purposes of Discussions

• Starting with Questions

• Importance of PICA

• Discussion Structure Examples

• Facilitation Techniques

• Things That Frustrate Me

• Tips for Happy Faculty

• Q&A

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Rempel, Hannah Gascho, and Paula S. McMillen. “Using Courseware Discussion Boards to Engage Graduate Students in Online Library Workshops.” Internet Reference Services Quarterly 13.4 (2008): 363-380. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text. Web. 30 July 2014.

Kui Xie. “What Do the Numbers Say? The Influence of Motivation and Peer Feedback on Students’ Behaviour in Online Discussions.” British Journal of Educational Technology 44.2 (2013): 288-301. Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 30 July 2014.

—. “Higher-Level Knowledge Construction in Asynchronous Online Discussions: An Analysis of Group Size, Duration of Online Discussion, and Student Facilitation Techniques.” Instructional Science 39.3 (2011): 303-319. Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 30 July 2014

Hew, Khe, and Wing Cheung. “Audio-Based Versus Text-Based Asynchronous Online Discussion: Two Case Studies.” Instructional Science 41.2 (2013): 365-380. Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 30 July 2014.

Gao, Fei, Tianyi Zhang, and Teresa Franklin. “Designing Asynchronous Online Discussion Environments: Recent Progress and Possible Future Directions.” British Journal of Educational Technology 44.3 (2013): 469-483. Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 30 July 2014.

Darabi, Aubteen, and Li Jin. “Improving the Quality of Online Discussion: The Effects of Strategies Designed Based on Cognitive Load Theory Principles.” Distance Education 34.1 (2013): 21-36. Academic Search Complete. Web. 30 July 2014.

Blackmon, Stephanie J. “Outcomes of Chat and Discussion Board Use in Online Learning: A Research Synthesis.” Journal of Educators Online 9.2 (2012): ERIC. Web. 30 July 2014.

Beckett, Gulbahar H., Carla Amaro-Jiménez, and Kelvin S. Beckett. “Students’ Use of Asynchronous Discussions for Academic Discourse Socialization.” Distance Education 31.3 (2010): 315-335. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 July 2014.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.  - Voltaire

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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong. - Bono

• Brunner

• Ciaderrello

• Costa

• Gorley

• Wiederhold

• McKeachie

• Wiggins and McTighe

• Oh my!

Marshall and Rossman (1989, 2016)

• Descriptive

• Exploratory

• Explanatory

• Emancipatory

Cam (2006) Quadrants

• Textual v Intellectual

• Open v Closed