Facilitating and Assessing Engaging Online Discussions

In this interactive session, you will learn how to facilitate engaging online discussions. Topics covered will include how to kick off online discussions with lively icebreakers, spur more effective groups, prompt and propel quality course content discussions in various forms, and evaluate student contributions using rubrics.

Outcomes: Learn a set of "introductions" and other sample icebreaker discussion prompts * Learn a set of preliminary discussions to help kick off effective groups * Learn how to create these independently