Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
How Did The Discussion Get There? Improving Asynchronous Discussion Using Course Objectives and Thread Linkage
Department
Allied Health Sciences
College
College of Health Professions
Date Range
2013-2014
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
Methods of guiding the discussion to reproducibly assess the course objectives are often inadequately addressed in the literature. The technique described here maps a pathway to iterate course objectives to topic questions. After a topic is linked, a series of redirection, elaboration, research, or summary headers are used to further refine and focus discussion to achieve the learning necessary for each topic. Each header can also be linked to previous or future discussion topics (vertical links) or threads within the current discussion session (horizontal links). Instructor composed responses can be used to economize effort without loss of individualization.
Conference Name
Lilly Conference on College an University Teaching and Learning
Conference Location
Traverse City, MI
ScholarWorks Citation
Wambach, Michael, "How Did The Discussion Get There? Improving Asynchronous Discussion Using Course Objectives and Thread Linkage" (2014). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 709.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/709
