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The online discussion forum is the most interactive part of the online classroom where students interact to exchange ideas and to learn classroom material and learn how to relate classroom material to their lives. The Discussion Forum gives students a chance to get to know their professor, and it gives the professor a chance to bond with her students to better teach and reinforce the class material.
How can you encourage students to discuss class material in the forums?
1. Harry, can you expand on that idea?
2. What did you mean by idea A idea B and idea C?
3. Do you agree or disagree with Dan's answer if so why?
4. Jen, what would you do to solve the problem?
5. Joseph, according to the reading what is the issue with the problem?
6 How would you define topic X?
7. Can you clarify more about what you just said?
8. What reasons do you have for saying Topic A?
9. Why do you think Topic A?
10. What is the opposite point of view for this issue?
11. What are the implications of Topic A? What are the consequences of Topic A ?
12. How's your point of view about this topic changed since taking this class?
13. Share from the reading what you have learned about this topic.
14. Jen do you agree or disagree with Don on this topic?
15. How can you relate this class topic to your life?
The teacher could ask these kind of open ended questions to the students and the students can ask each other these open ended questions to each other in the forums in order to promote discussion. The more interaction there is the more students learn. And all this interaction as I said before give students a sense of community and a sense of belonging which is important for successful online learning..
For me, participating in the forums is my favorite part of teaching online classes.
What other tips do you have to get students to participate more in the forms?
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