Digital storytelling

• Concept: Ask students to create digital stories using presentation software. Photo story or other technologies on a topic of their choice related to the subject matter.
• Mode & Facilitation:
  • Asynchronous: Encourage the students to share their stories with the class.
• Potential Outcome(s): Students relate the content to their lives and can demonstrate indirect skills.

Use of podcast

• Concept: Ask students to read articles or text related to their subject and create a short 2–3-minute podcast presentation.
• Mode & Facilitation:
  • Asynchronous: Encourage the students to share their stories with the class.
• Potential Outcome(s): Promotes critical thinking. Students experience a different method of presenting.

Electronic study guide

• Concept: This activity can be assigned as a major assignment. Require the students to create an electronic study guide about a topic – a web page with tabs, which could be used by future students.
• Mode & Facilitation:
  • Asynchronous: Encourage the students to share their guides with the class.
• Potential Outcome(s): Promotes critical and creative thinking. Allows students to go in-depth of the subject.

Expert interviews

• Concept: Ask the students to interview experts in the field of their study and create audiovisual presentations relating to the content and interviews.
• Mode & Facilitation:
  • Asynchronous: Encourage the students to share their results with the class.
• Potential Outcome(s): In-depth analysis. Critical questioning skills. Synergizing information.

Twitter discussion

• Concept: Ask students to tweet in three (or more) different ways about the course content each week. The tweets can be informational, attitudinal, or linked to the course topic.
• Mode & Facilitation:
  • Asynchronous: Use a hashtag for courses that can help curate tweets and encourage dialogue between students.
  • Synchronous: Conduct an active discussion discussing the tweets.
• Potential Outcome(s): Critical analysis skills. Observing and respecting others’ opinions.

Debate Sessions

• Concept: Ask the students to discuss a course topic’s benefits and drawbacks.
• Mode & Facilitation: Synchronous: Conduct an active discussion session in the class. You may divide the class into two groups and then ask them to discuss.
• Potential Outcome(s): Students can view topics from different perspectives. Able to establish connections.

Student facilitators

• Concept: Allow students to be the facilitators for topics of their choice in the class. Ask them to facilitate a synchronous session with their peers to provide an opportunity to develop facilitation skills.
• Mode & Facilitation:
  • Synchronous: Make suggestions on facilitation topics based on students’ research interests and career goals.
• Potential Outcome(s): Establish a connection with the content. Integrated learning.