1. Challenges /17 1

2. Challenge 1 Age Differences (Pedagogy vs. Andragogy) /17 2

3. Challenge 2 Generation differences (Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants) /17 3

4. Challenge 3 Learning Styles My Paper /17 4

5. Challenge 4 The challenge as she saw it was to promote the same type of interaction, “the same give and take” in the online course as had always been present in the on-site version. /17 5

6. The Difference /17 6

7. Interactivity /17 7

8. What is missing? Instructor to Student Student to Instructor Student to Student /17 8

9. Challenge 5 How to structure a discussion topic?  Explain your expectations clearly  Add links to resources (video is preferred)  Have a grading rubric  Choose interesting topics (?)  Don’t choose topic with specific answers  Require students (peer) evaluation. /17 9

10. Give students options  Options in choosing topics  Options in synchronous and asynchronous  Options in text, audio, video conferences  Options in choosing their partners? /17 10

11. Challenge 6 What are good topics?  Q1- Which one is more important? Students’ Interest or your course objectives and your curriculum standards?  Q2- What might be a good discussion topic for a course like this?  Type and then copy and paste into  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atxqjx0XRzCvdDd6QVN mYU4yZWNpQ0tSNTZIbEdmeFE&usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atxqjx0XRzCvdDd6QVN mYU4yZWNpQ0tSNTZIbEdmeFE&usp=sharing /17 11

12. Challenge 7 Students have access to many resources and I don’t have expertise in some aspects of my course content. /17 12

13. Alternative strategies  Invite guest speakers  Encourage attending conferences  Invite students to participate in webinars  Ask students to present /17 13

14. Challenge 8 How to start a discussion? How to break the ice? /17 14

15. Challenge 8 My students had enough online discussions. What are other ways to engage them in a meaningful way? /17 15

16. Response to media Ask students to -Watch a movie, documentary, TV show, Radio show, podcast, interviews,….etc. -Then reflect on their experience /17 16

17. Ask them to create and share  Examples? /17 17