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Learn how to encourage effective communication among learners, control information flow, and foster an online community for higher learning. This workshop covers creating discussion forums and setting release conditions in eLearning platforms.
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Discussions and Release Conditions Bill Weber E-Learning Operations
Workshop Overview • Tell You • Show You • Involve You
Why Discussions? • Encouraging Communications between learners • Learning from each other • Higher Learning (Bloom's Taxonomy) • Quality Matters • Building an online community of learners
Why Release Conditions? • Control the flow of information • Allow “special access” • Solution to an eCollege problem
Discussion Forums (Why?) • Discussion Topics need a forum or container • Organization Uses • Different Types of Discussions • Different Forums for Different Groups • Multiple Topics for each Content Module
Discussion Forums (How-to) • Go to the Discussions area • Click “New Forum” • Give it a title • Save it
Discussion Topics • Click “Save and Add Topic” on the New Forum page • Or click on “New Topic” on the Discussions Page • Choose the Forum • Give it a title • Put the topic in the “Description Box” • Save it
Release Conditions (Why?) • Control the flow of information • Create exceptions for individual students
Release Conditions (How-to) • Edit item condition is being applied to • Click on the “Restrictions” tab • Click on “Create and Attach” • In the pop-up, choose the type and the details. • Click “Create” • Save the item