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This article describes a study done in a graduate education course, where students were asked to facilitate discussions. It highlights specific discussion types and walks through the problems students experienced adjusting to this new role. (Even though they were teachers themselves, these graduate students weren't accustomed to functioning in the teacher role during an online class!)

This study explored student-led facilitation strategies used to overcome the challenges of instructor-dominated facilitation, enhance the sense of learning community, and encourage student participation in online discussions...

"A Preliminary Investigation of "Teaching Presence" in the SUNY Learning Network"

well made video of two girls doing a test with horse ears

How to use a Moodle plugin to create image based questions with "hot spots" - perhaps others in the class besides me would be interested in these tools and there is a nice video tutorial supplied in one of the replies

some tidbits on use of database tool and activity that might be useful to folks - will try to find the training material for referenced strategy and bookmark

Study focuses on one aspect of facilitation, the way in which we communicate and guide students in asynchronous learning networks (ALN) and how this process might be improved upon.

Developmental nature of an online community of inquiry