On January 28, 2022, the College of Arts and Sciences Office of Distance Education hosted a teaching forum to discuss integrating student interaction in online course design and developing a culture in which students are cooperatively accomplishing course learning objectives. A panel of faculty instructors and an ODEE Instructional designer shared their perspectives and experiences with facilitating peer collaboration in online teaching environments
Anticipated Outcomes - Our goal was that by the end of this session, participants would be able to...
- Reflect on the communication differences in online teaching from the classroom setting and how those differences can affect student collaboration
- Identify methods and tools for structuring group activities in synchronous and asynchronous online courses
- Consider multiple strategies for assessing group work and online collaborations of various types
- Develop a plan to purposefully create student coordination and collaboration in your online courses
Teaching Forum Panelists
Sarah Holt (Office of Distance Education and eLearning)
Jeffrey Trimble (School of Communication)
Claudia Buchmann (Department of Sociology)
Catherine C. Braun (Department of English)