I have spent some time over the last two weeks trying to get a discussion group going using WebCT about e-learning to give participants:
- some experience of things from the student side;
- an insight into some of the issues about e-learning;
- an opportunity to generate some guidelines about promoting on-line participation
We deliberately made this a low volume discussion expecting two sessions of activity a week, one at the start and one at the end, each of about 30mins
So far participation has not been high although all but two participants have posted something and I am wondering whether to do try to make an intervention in an attempt to improve participation.
I am also wondering how things could have been made to work better. Perhaps it was naive of me to assume that tutors would have the necessary skills to organise themselves for on-line activity and I needed to be more prescriptive about it.
More later ….