Workshop Overview
In online and blended courses, well-designed meaningful learning opportunities facilitate student learning by providing engagement with content and new ideas through interaction and collaboration. Promoting such interaction and collaboration, however is easier said than done. Careful attention must be paid to the purposes, design, and implementation of interactive and collaborative activity in order to ensure its usefulness to the learning process. In this interactive workshop we will explore pedagogical techniques for facilitating interaction and collaboration, examine examples of effective designs, practice with and develop strategies for selecting appropriate tools, and create a plan to turn your classroom into a thriving learning community.