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How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

Edsurge

Dropbox Paper or Google Docs : these mainstream collaborative word-processing tools let instructors invite students to collaborate on assignments or group work. The only thing that was cumbersome on my end was grading student participation since there wasn’t a way to include scores within the peer review framework on Canvas.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Teaching example: In one of my recent courses, I included a “workshop day” for students to peer review each other’s drafts of case conceptualizations. Student-led discussions: Rotate leadership roles for class discussions, allowing students to take ownership of their learning with their peers.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Teaching example: In one of my recent courses, I included a “workshop day” for students to peer review each other’s drafts of case conceptualizations. Student-led discussions: Rotate leadership roles for class discussions, allowing students to take ownership of their learning with their peers.

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Trauma-informed practices in higher education: Building support communities from the topdown

EAB

This knowledge has been argued for over a decade now and is supported by evidence and data published in the peer-reviewed literature, some of which could be argued that if the experiments analyzed had been conducted as randomized controlled trials of medical interventions, they may have been stopped for the benefit.