Online Learning Activities

Learning activities (or instructional strategies) allow you to meet the objectives of your course by involving your students in actions that foster learning.

Task: what kind of learning activity/strategy will you include to help your students accomplish the learning goal you identified?

Additional Resources

Illinois Online Teaching Network - Online Teaching Strategies Index A very extensive site suggesting a number of online teaching activities with comprehensive templates for each activity.
Teaching Models from Virginia Tech A great site with a number of teaching models including anchored instruction, case based teaching, cognitive apprenticeship and problem-based learning.
Instructional Strategies for Online Courses from Illinois Online Network http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/pedagogy/instructionalstrategies.asp
Web based strategies from Virginia Tech
Instructional Strategies from Georgia Southern
WebQuests http://webquest.org/ and http://questgarden.com/
Problem Solving http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/en/index.php
Ways to use discussion http://vudat.msu.edu/discussion_uses/
Vaughan, N.D. (2008). The use of wikis and weblogs to support deep approaches to learning. The University College of Fraser Valley Research Review, 1(3); 47-60. Available online at: http://journals.ucfv.ca/rr/RR13/article-PDFs/6-vaughan.pdf
Characteristics of Students and Corresponding Activities for Instruction