Post First Discourse
Strategy Description
Online discussions are most effective when students engage in higher order thinking, taking time to reflect and compose original posts. Instructors play a key role in purposefully designing discussion forums that move “student discourse out of the margins of thinking to deeper levels of thought” (Williams, Jaramillo, Peski, 2015, p. 46). The post-first discourse strategy is one way that online instructors of any discipline can easily encourage deep and divergent thinking, and avoid learners’ parroting of responses (Kim, Wah, & Lee, 2007).
Date Created
8-17-2017
Pedagogical Category
Interaction
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Recommended Citation
Cochenour, Laurie; Crossley, Mary; and Mancilla, Rae, "Post First Discourse" (2017). Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository. 56.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/topr/56
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