Managing - and Motivating! - Distance Learning Group Activities

by Barbara J. Millis, Director of Faculty Development, US Air Force Academy. To promote learning, you will want to structure online activities to encourage the kind of student interactions and active learning that foster deep learning. Deep approaches to learning -- learning for understanding -- are integrative processes where students synthesize and connect material to existing knowledge.

Keywords: distance learning best practices teaching online activities

http://www.tltgroup.org/gilbert/millis.htm

Focus Area: Teaching and Learning

Scope: Global

Resource Type: Publications

Entry Date: May 22, 2001