Encourage students to share their learning resources, interact with each other and participate in online activities.
Rationale:
- To encourage active participation, and self directed and peer learning.
- To enable students to take charge of their learning.
Here are some ideas of how you can encourage students to actively participate in their learning using online tools:
Online activities are used to inform face to face activities. E.g. students are asked to research and discuss a topic online in groups, prior to sharing these more widely in a face to face session.
Further information on active participationCollaborative activities are encouraged, such as asking students to contribute to a wiki of shared knowledge; or share useful resources via a forum.
- Students are guided through a series of tasks (using branches and optionally questions) using the Moodle Lesson activity, or similar.
Further information on scaffolding learning using collaborative activites. (Structure)
Students reflect on their own learning using online tools (such as blogs, wikis, forums).
- Students complete set tasks and lead the topic discussions. This may count as their attendance (for distance learning courses) and/or form part of their assessment.
- Online communication tools are predominantly used to question, clarify and debate the taught concepts, rather than answer administrative queries, although a space for these is provided.