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Flickr Photo Courtesy Of: Eric Wignall Teaching Online Across Devices In online courses, discussion forums provide a place for student-to-student and instructor-to-student interaction. Within discussion forums, students share thoughts and review the ideas of others modeled through collegial, dialogic Read More >

Some great tips for online instructors to help them avoid burnout, and to help the students really get engaged in a discussion.

This index represents a compilation of those activities to help instructors plan their online and hybrid courses. A complete description of each activity is given, along with examples when possible.

This comprehensive overview of the underlying learning theory and practical application of blended learning is authored by one of our BSU instructors, Dr. Norm Friesen!

Preparing Instructors for Quality Online Instruction Yi Yang Ph.D. This article is remarkably similar to the text by Palloff & Pratt

This article discusses the benefits of online discussions and tips for both planning and facilitating such discussions.

How can an instructional designer (ID) leverage social interaction online to engage learners, increase exchange and dialogue, and get better results, without losing the purposeful focus provided by an instructor or traditional course content and structure? Here is an approach that you can adapt to your requirements.

How can an instructional designer (ID) leverage social interaction online to engage learners, increase exchange and dialogue, and get better results, without losing the purposeful focus provided by an instructor or traditional course content and structure? Here is an approach that you can adapt to your requirements.

This cached article from the University of Alabama highlights the objectives of discussions and gives practical examples, ideas, and resources for engaging online ice breakers. As instructors, sometimes we need a fresh idea on how to engage students in discussions!

This is a great way to allow instructors to collect assignments through Google in whatever LMS your institution is currently using.

Here's an article that discusses the importance of instructor engagement in discussion forums as well as the importance of focusing on quality over quantity.

This article helps me crystalize how I want to engage in DB with my students. Thank you for sharing, Dr. Saba!

Advice to post a faculty bio and develop online presence are not uncommon, but when I look out at my class roster in the school's learning management system (LMS), on a sea of new names at the beginning of each term, my focus has increasingly become direct instructor-student exchange with each person.

In a face-to-face class, students have numerous opportunities to interact with their instructor and fellow students. Creating similar opportunities for collaboration in a web-based course is one of the biggest challenges of teaching online. Yet, opportunities for meaningful synchronous and asynchronous interaction are plentiful, provided you design and facilitate your online course in the correct manner and with the proper tools.