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Facilitating online discussions effectively

The Internet and Higher Education, 2007
Abstract This article presents a synthesis of the theoretical and research literature on facilitating asynchronous online discussions effectively. Online courses need to be designed so that they provide motivation for students to engage in productive discussions and clearly describe what is expected, perhaps in the form of a discussion rubric ...
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What Factors Facilitate Online Buying?

Eighth World Congress on the Management of eBusiness (WCMeB 2007), 2007
Internet usage continues to grow at an exponential rate, and it is essential for the companies to have an online presence in order to remain competitive in the dynamic environment. It is imperative for the companies, to investigate and understand the factors that influence the decision to purchase online, in order to maximize the effectiveness of their
Bhasker Mukerji, Michele Thomson
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Facilitating Scottish cultural publishing online

Library Review, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the goals and broad outcomes of the SAPIENS project. SAPIENS was set up to provide electronic versions of current Scottish cultural periodicals. The project's approach was to offer assistance to smaller Scottish publishers to create online serial publications by providing server space, technical ...
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Facilitating critical discourse through “meaningful disagreement” online

Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2012
This paper is concerned with identifying ways of facilitating "meaningful disagreement" amongst students in interprofessional online discussion forums. It builds on previous research that identified a trend toward polite agreement and only limited evidence of disagreement in this setting.
Jayne, Dalley-Hewer, Deanne Lynn, Clouder, Ann, Jackson, Simon, Goodman, Patricia, Bluteau, Bernadette, Davies   +5 more
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Online Group Facilitation Skills

2006
Traditional face-to-face (F2F) group facilitation is a well-evolved practice. Roger Schwarz defined it as “a process in which a person who is acceptable to all members of the group, substantively neutral and has no decision-making authority intervenes to help a group improve the way it identifies and solves problems and makes decisions, in order to ...
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Facilitating the Online Curriculum

2004
What is a “traditional” classroom? Many adults may still think of a traditional classroom as a room within a building, probably on a university, college, or other educational institution’s campus. It may contain computer equipment, but it may be pictured as an older, whiteboard-only classroom full of desks or tables, with a teacher lecturing students ...
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QAnon as an Online-Facilitated Cult

Journal of Religion and Violence, 2022
Through the examination of QAnon as a religious apocalyptic “digital cult,” this paper integrates individual psychological models regarding the espousal of conspiracy beliefs with sociological and anthropological models of religious cultism, particularly in the context of destructive and violent cults.
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Best Practices for Online Facilitation

Adult Learning, 2003
Imagine you are helping a 20-something year-old student logging on to his/her first online course. Then, imagine you are helping a 40- or 50-something year-old student logging on to his/her first online course. What are the differences? The first obvious difference may be the degree of computer skills and experience.
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Asynchronous online discussion: Instructor facilitation vs. peer facilitation

2014
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Cheung, WS, Hew, KF
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On Facilitating Large-Scale Online Discussions

2019
Since various opinions are openly discussed on the Web and there is a growing need to facilitate such discussions, discussion-support systems have been attracting attention. In this regard, human facilitator plays an important role for leading constructive discussions on the Web. However, human facilitation for large-scale Web discussions is limited in
Daichi Shibata, Ahmed Moustafa, Takayuki Ito, Shota Suzuki   +3 more
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