I just let them wing it. In fact, I monitor but do not intervene in the discussion (I did so once and the discussion stopped cold). The students always come up with the correct answer (but sometimes it takes some debate among the group and a good bit of time)!
It really is good learning experience for all concerned (including me).
Marcia J. Staff
Chair, Dept. of Finance, Insurance,
Real Estate and Law
Professor of Business Law
College of Business Administration
University of North Texas
Denton, Texas
940-565-3063
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Thank you so much. Do you provide a sample best answer to your students or just let them wing it?
On Dec 22, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Staff, Marcia wrote:
I have had wonderful results from graded discussions (I use them is both on line and face to face classes).
The discussions must be completed by a certain time and are easy to grade in Blackboard.
Below are the instructions I use.
WEEKLY EXERCISES
At the conclusion of each week's material, students will submit complete two steps:
* A discussion of a topic from the week's material. These discussions will be graded. To receive credit for participating in the discussion, you must submit two grammatically correct, thoughtful submissions. The first submission responds to the question posed. The second response must respond to one of your classmate’s postings. BOTH SUBMISSIONS MUST CONTAIN A SPECIFIC CITATION TO YOUR TEXT BOOK OR CLASS MATERIAL. Your answers do not have to be correct (that is the purpose of discussion!). However, your answers must be courteous, thoughtful and grammatically correct; must contain a citation to a specific source; and must be posted by the deadline. No late submissions will be accepted.
* A quiz taken from the chapters covered during the week. A description of the Quiz, the time allotted and Instructions for each Quiz will be posted with each weekly assignment.
Marcia J. Staff
Chair, Department of Finance, Insurance,
Real Estate and Law
Professor, Business Law
College of Business Administration
University of North Texas
940-565-3063
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Subject: Online Discussion Structure Help
First time caller, long time listener,
I am currently putting together a Corporate Sustainability hybrid course (part in class/part online) and the online approach is a little new to me. Do any of you have rules or procedures for reinforcing students online discussions?
Any sort of guidelines, evaluation rubrics, content protocols would be greatly appreciated?
Doval
Christopher Doval, J.D. M.S.
Assistant Professor of Management and Marketing
Reginald F. Lewis School of Business
Virginia State University
219 Singleton Hall
Office Hours - MWF 11-2
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