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I truly love being an online facilitator, but it can lend itself to more frequent communication gaps because everyone is virtual. Online communication can be
*This is a five-part series. Five Online Discussion Ideas to Apply Learning Discussion forums. Love them or hate them, they are an essential component of
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A bunch of black boxes on a video call. An empty discussion board. A student who hasn’t submitted any work all term. These might all
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