To Discuss or Not Discuss

By Rachel Roberts. I used to think all instructors thought about the learning environment they were creating for their students, regardless of the class being in person or online. A logical reasoning, given that instructors are educators, right?
After designing a research project to investigate the how instructors intentionally invites students into online learning communities, I now question this reasoning.
To begin, I identified nearly thirty MOOC course providers, nineteen of which were offering active courses for free. More...