Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

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Facilitating cross-cultural online discussion groups: Implications for practice
Saundra Wall Williams, Karen Watkins, Barbara Daley, Bradley Courtenay, Mike Davis and Darryl Dymock
Distance Education - An International Journal, Volume 22, Number 1, 2001

Online discussion is a powerful tool for the development of critical thinking, collaboration, and reflection. However, the effective instructional use of online discussions places new requirements on instructors for skilful facilitation. When the construct of cross-cultural participants is added, the facilitation requirements increase....

 



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