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Challenges

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Challenge 1

Age Differences (Pedagogy vs. Andragogy)

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Challenge 2

Generation differences (Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants)

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Challenge 3

Learning Styles

My Paper

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Challenge 4

The challenge as she saw it was to promote the same type of interaction, “the same give and take” in the online course as had always been present in the on-site version.

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The Difference

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Interactivity

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What is missing?

Instructor to Student

Student to Instructor

Student to Student

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Challenge 5How to structure a discussion topic?

Explain your expectations clearly

Add links to resources (video is preferred)

Have a grading rubric

Choose interesting topics (?)

Don’t choose topic with specific answers

Require students (peer) evaluation.

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Give students options

Options in choosing topicsOptions in synchronous and

asynchronous Options in text, audio, video

conferencesOptions in choosing their partners?

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Challenge 6 What are good topics?

Q1- Which one is more important? Students’ Interest or your course objectives and your curriculum standards?

Q2- What might be a good discussion topic for a course like this?

Type and then copy and paste into https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atxqjx0XRzCvdDd6QVN

mYU4yZWNpQ0tSNTZIbEdmeFE&usp=sharing

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Challenge 7

Students have access to many resources and I don’t have expertise in some aspects of my course content.

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Alternative strategies

Invite guest speakers

Encourage attending conferences

Invite students to participate in webinars

Ask students to present

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Challenge 8

How to start a discussion?

How to break the ice?

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Challenge 8

My students had enough online discussions. What are other ways to engage them in a meaningful way?

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Response to media

Ask students to- Watch a movie, documentary, TV

show, Radio show, podcast, interviews,….etc.

- Then reflect on their experience

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Ask them to create and share

Examples?