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Creating Successful Blended-Learning Classrooms - Education Week Teacher. 15 Tips For Facilitating Online Discussion. Facilitating discussions between students is one of those things that is infinitely easier when you’re teaching in a physical classroom rather than online.

15 Tips For Facilitating Online Discussion

When the students are all in one room, discussions happen more naturally. Facilitating the same type of productive, useful discussion when teaching online is more of a challenge. The handy infographic below from Mia MacMeekin takes a look at some tips and best practices for facilitating discussions when you’re teaching online. If you teach online and have any favorite tips and tricks, leave us a message in the comments! 15 Tips For Facilitating Online Discussion. A five stage model for using the VLE. VLEs have a huge range of functionality, a lot of criticism often laid against the VLE is that some users are not aware of those functions.

A five stage model for using the VLE

There is often too much information about the VLE for new users who may not understand many of the concepts or have the skills to fully utilise the functionality of the VLE. Stage One. eLearning for Arts and Social Sciences. Top ten tips I attended a session on Moodle course design at the MoodleMoot 11 conference.

eLearning for Arts and Social Sciences

One of the speakers, Michelle Moore, Chief Evangelist for Remote-Learner, gave some excellent dos and don’ts for effective and user-friendly Moodle course design which I have summarised below. 1. Blended Learning: Making it Work in Your Classroom. Kristin: I can say that the things I've been doing the last two years have really made a difference, because my kids have scored the highest in the State on the standardized tests.

Blended Learning: Making it Work in Your Classroom

So what we're doing here is working, and it's helping them be successful. Julie: We define Blended Learning as the combination of digital content and activity with face-to-face content and activity. It sounds easy to Blend, but it really, it looks very different in every classroom.