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| Teaching in Action Team Learning
Enabling students to work successfully in teams is a key dimension of online learning. Whitesel outlines two methods for helping students build teams. The first method suggests ways of defining expectations for online collaborations as a means of creating clearly delineated assignments targeted to specific learning needs. The second method provides ideas about how to guide student-student interactions and when to intervene in them.
Cynthia Whitesel is Professor of Practice in Communication Studies, Undergraduate Programs, University of Maryland University College (UMUC). Her teaching career spans 30 years; since 1994 she has been teaching online using a variety of platforms. She is the author of UMUC's Online Guide to Writing and Research. She has also played a formative role in the construction of this UMUC-Bell Atlantic Virtual Resource site and contributed to the Systems Approach guide in Module 2. For more information about Professor Whitesel, please visit http://polaris.umuc.edu/~cwhitese/bio_cwhitesel.htm. This project is a joint initiative of the Center for the Virtual University and the Center for Teaching and Learning at UMUC. © 1996-2005 University of Maryland University College |
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