Directions: In this final activity, you will help create a "Best Practice for Discussion" document that could be shared with other faculty. Please put your best practice ideas under the appropriate headers. If you want to tweak an item that is already added, that is appropriate for a collaborative wiki. Note, a wiki can be a great alternative to a traditional discussion depending on your instructional goal. Please contribute at least one item to each of the headers provided below. To begin, click edit in the top right corner. Make sure to save your changes.

Discussion Best Practices

Connecting Discussion to Learning Outcomes

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Writing Discussion Prompts

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Providing Feedback

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- When conducting peer review activities for assignments, have students synthesize peer and instructor feedback and then reflect on (and describe) aspects of the assignment they viewed as being successful, aspects of the assignment they would modify or improve, and any feedback they found to be surprising or particularly useful.

Administering Discussion

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- Model how to ask open-ended questions to stimulate and/or extend discussions.

- Address clear misconceptions (e.g., about course content/foundational concepts) after giving some time for other students to address them first (or when other students are in agreement with the misconceptions).

Discussion Prompts 2.0 - Bringing Creativity into Discussion

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- Allow students to use their preferred discussion modality (audio, video, text) by accepting multiple file/submission formats.

- Create discussion activities that incorporate Canvas Studio videos, and have students comment/respond to peer comments about specific segments of the video.