This resource offers a range of ideas related to building community and encouraging student agency in the context of connected or online learning.
Category: Discussion
This assignment takes advantage of the connected or blended learning environment to invite students to engage with a range of texts through audio informational lectures which are then discussed in forums.
This activity offers a way to use interactive simulations to engage students in the analysis of concepts learned in a Macroeconomics course.
This resource offers an approach to encourage students to develop a habit of reflection through the use of short weekly video reflections that are shared online.
This assignment, given in the context of a Social Psychology course, introduces key concepts on the cognitive and emotional roots of prejudice as a setup to a three-class unit, and gives students the opportunities to analyze and integrate information in reading, lecture and video formats, to consider the benefits and limits of different methodologies, and to apply course content to novel situations.
This excerpt from the modified syllabus for a course on climate change offers an approach to making a discussion-oriented class work in a virtual environment.