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Building Interaction Into Your Online Course建设互动到您的在线课程

Interaction in online courses is a two-edged sword.互动在线课程是一把双刃剑。 On one hand you want students to participate.一方面要学生参加。 This enhances their learning by letting them question and discuss issues in the course.这增强了他们的学习，让他们的问题和讨论问题的过程中。 On the other hand, as the instructor, you need to decide the level of interaction you want to have with each student - and build your courses accordingly.另一方面，作为教练，你需要决定的互动程度要与每一个学生-并建立相应的课程。

As an illustration, let me relate a poor choice I made in a course I wrote several years ago.举一个例子，让我与一个贫穷的选择，我当然，我在几年前写。 Because I wanted everyone involved, I required that each student post at least one message per week to the discussion group.因为我想每个人都参与，我要求每个学生至少有一个职位信息每周讨论小组。 In addition, I required that they respond to two other messages.此外，我必须作出回应，他们两个其他信息。 Simple?简单？ Yes.是。 But because I had decided that my level of involvement was to respond to every posting, I was faced with 3 messages for every student every week - and this was only the minimum requirement!但是，因为我已经决定，我的参与程度是应对每一个帖子，我面临着3消息每个学生每星期-这仅仅是最低要求！ I soon found myself bogged down in responding to an overwhelming number of messages.我很快就发现自己陷入回应绝大多数邮件。

To decide on your level of involvement, let's look at 5 levels of interactions you can provide.决定您的参与程度，让我们看看5级之间的相互作用可以提供。

1. 1 。 Respond to every email.回复所有电子邮件。 At this level of interaction, you are reading and responding to every email or discussion sent.在这个级别的互动，你阅读和回复每封电子邮件或讨论发送。 Beware.要小心了。 While this may be effective at the beginning of a discussion when there is little interaction, you'll soon be overwhelmed just responding to and encouraging students.虽然这可能是有效的在开始讨论时，几乎没有互动，你会很快将不堪重负只是响应，并鼓励学生。

2. 2 。 Respond to every nth email.回复所有n次方电子邮件。 This is a more rational view.这是一个更为合理的看法。 Here you can decide to pick every 5th posting and respond to it.在这里，您可以决定挑选每第五张贴和回应。 The danger is that you'll miss a student's best posting or that you'll miss an important question.危险的是，你会错过任何一个学生的最佳张贴或您会错过一个重要的问题。

3. 3 。 Respond to 1 message per student per week.应付1个帖子，每名学生每星期。 You can set the expectation that you'll welcome questions from everyone, but that you'll only guarantee a response to one per week.您可以设定期望，你会欢迎大家的提问，但是，您只能保证针对每个星期。 That will put the burden of composing an effective message on the student's shoulders, rather than just jotting off a quick question every time they think of it.这将构成负担的一个有效的信息对学生的肩膀，而不是仅仅记了快速的问题，他们认为每一次的。

4. 4 。 Post provocative questions.邮政挑衅性的问题。 This is a great way to get a discussion started.这是一个很好的方法来讨论开始。 If you choose this route, you may choose not to participate in the discussion yourself - but instead, just summarize it at the end - or not.如果你选择这条路线，你可以选择不参加讨论自己-但相反，它只是总结结束时-或没有。

5. 5 。 Employ help.雇用帮助。 This may be a Teaching Assistant, a mentor, students who have taken the course in the past, etc. You may also choose to separate the types of correspondence - for example, one person may cover technical questions, while another handles course mechanics and you take the content questions.这可能是一个教学助理，导师，学生谁采取了当然在过去，等您也可以选择不同的类型的通信-例如，一个人可能涉及的技术问题，而另一种处理过程力学和你采取内容的问题。

Now that you've decided on your level of involvement, it's time to design the exercises.现在您已经决定在您的参与程度，它的时间来设计演习。 Recognize that almost any type of exercise you use in face-to-face training has an online counterpart.认识到，几乎任何类型的演习中使用面对面培训在线对应。 So be creative - and try your ideas.因此，有创意-并尝试您的想法。 You can even ask your fellow instructors for help by saying "In an instructor-led course we would do such-and-such for this lesson. What would you suggest we use to replicate that learning online?"您甚至可以问问你的同事在导师的帮助表示“在一个指导员领导我们当然会做这种并为这一教训等。请问您认为我们使用复制，学习在线？ ”

Keep in mind that the format of the course you are creating will help determine the appropriateness of an interactive exercise.请记住，格式当然您要创建将有助于确定是否适宜的一个互动活动。 For example, if you have a rolling enrollment, self-paced course where students sign up and work through the materials at their own pace, it may be difficult to assign them team activities.例如，如果您有一个滚动招生，自学课程的学生注册工作的材料，通过自己的速度，很可能难以分配给小组的活动。

To get you started here are some ideas for interactive exercises.为了让您一开始这里有一些想法，互动演习。 These cover a variety of levels of interaction, so choose your favorites.这些涵盖了各种层次的互动，所以请选择您的收藏夹。

Polls and surveys - ask a series of questions, then summarize the results for the participants.民意调查和调查-问了一系列问题，然后总结成果的参与者。 This can be done with a survey tool or you can use a multiple choice exam.这是可以做到的调查工具或您可以使用选择题考试。 Poll early and often.调查初期，往往。 Your first poll might be the type of computer participants use, how they connect to the Internet, and their level of expertise in computer skills.您的第一次民意调查可能是类型的计算机与会者使用，他们是如何连接到互联网，他们的专业知识水平的计算机技能。 This provides good feedback to you and gives them a profile of the "average" student.这提供了很好的反馈给您，并让他们有一个形象的“平均”的学生。

Go and do - give students an assignment to do offline.去这样做-让学生做的转让离线。 Then ask them to come back and use one of the other techniques (reflection, chat, summaries) to report on their activities.然后再请他们回来，并利用其他技术（反射，聊天，摘要）报告其活动。

Read and react - give students an article, a series of websites, or other assignment.阅读和反应-让学生的一篇文章，一系列的网站，或其他任务。 Then ask them to write a short reaction paper based on their readings.然后要求他们写了很短的反应的基础上的读数。

Reflection - ask each student to use their personal note space to reflect on reading/group discussions.反思-要求每个学生利用他们的个人空间，以反映对阅读/小组讨论。

3-word summary - ask each student to summarize their thoughts in 3 words in the discussion group. 3字概述-要求每个学生要总结他们的想法的话在3组的讨论。 Others can ask for clarification.其他人可以要求澄清。

Teams - use teams to create small discussion groups.团队-利用球队创造小型讨论小组。 Then ask one person from each team to summarize the discussion in the larger discussion area.然后要求一个人从每个小组的讨论中总结的大讨论区。

Office hours - use a chat to hold weekly office hours.办公时间-使用聊天召开每周办公时间。 Just tell everyone when you'll be "in", then wait for the questions.只是告诉大家当您将“在” ，然后等待的问题。 As an alternative you may decide to offer a chat time to a smaller group or team of students - either to encourage more interaction or to handle what would have been an overwhelming amount of interaction.作为一种替代您可能会决定提供一个聊天的时间较小的一组或小组的学生-无论是鼓励更多的互动或处理本来压倒性数量的互动。

Expert panel - invite one or more experts to participate in a live event such as a video or audio conference.专家小组-邀请一个或多个专家参加现场活动，如视频或音频会议。 Take questions from the audience.采取了听众的提问。 Then continue the discussion with the discussion group.然后继续讨论，小组讨论。 If possible, invite the experts to participate in the discussion.如果可能的话，请专家来参加讨论。

You will continue to discover new interactive exercises that you use with your courses.您将继续探索新的互动活动，您使用与您的课程。 For a full course on the topic, send an email to elearning@TechTamers.com对于全部课程的主题，请发送电子邮件至elearning@TechTamers.com

Dr. Jeanette Cates is an Internet strategist who works with experts who are ready to turn their knowledge and their websites into Gold.珍妮盖茨博士是一名互联网战略家专家谁与谁愿意把自己的知识和自己的网站变成黄金。 Her reputation as a speaker and trainer has earned her the title of The Technology Tamer.她的名誉作为议长和教练赢得了她的标题技术驯。 With more than 20 years in instructional design and elearning, Jeanette shares her news and views in OnlineSuccessNews.com凭借20多年的教学设计和学习，她的新闻珍妮股和意见OnlineSuccessNews.com