Handout used in May 12 Designing Online Groups Presentation

1. Purposes of the session:
Encourage consideration of
online discussion groups for
teaching, learning, assessment,
and collaboration.
Introduce design strategy for
online discussion activities to
support desired outcomes.
Acknowledge common problems
and solutions with online
There are, as of yet, few ‘idea books’ discussion groups.
of creative and interesting ways that
online discussion groups can be done. In
part due to the well-constructed
bulletin board tools available in online
course dev