Student‐led facilitation strategies in online discussions
- 7 October 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Distance Education
- Vol. 30 (3), 339-361
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01587910903236510
Abstract
This study explored student‐led facilitation strategies used to overcome the challenges of instructor‐dominated facilitation, enhance the sense of learning community, and encourage student participation in online discussions. It presents a series of cases of students’ facilitation strategies and using qualitative data analysis of discussion threads within the naturalistic inquiry framework, identifies three facilitation strategies: inspirational; practice‐oriented; and highly structured. The study shows that these facilitation strategies generated innovative ideas, motivated students to participate, and provided a risk‐free and relaxed atmosphere for participation.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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