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A Culminating Selection of Work from My Masters of Higher Education Program

Beyond Read, Write & Discuss

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Online courses rely far too heavily on the read, write and discuss format.  This multi-media presentation takes a tongue and cheek approach to explaining how the discussion forum became popular and how online faculty can move beyond this sometimes very boring format.

A transcript of the presentation can be downloaded and read here.

The full paper can be downloaded here. 

What people are saying…

I just want to acknowledge the good help I've been getting from Mary in "refreshing" my NMP 605 Financial Decision-Making in Nonprofits Course.  She has helped me put new video/voice/and analytical tools into the course to facilitate the on-line discussions and the sharing of course content.  No longer are we wedded to the typed word for communicating.
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Thank you Mary. You were so helpful yesterday and I really appreciate your time. As you can see, I put a lot of forethought into my classes and try to develop a wide array of assessments and activities for the students. The flip side of that is it takes quite a bit of pre-planning and work up front for me, which I am happy to do, but sometimes I challenge myself to do new things and having the support is very helpful.