Education Resources
For using Exploratory Discussion in the Classroom & Online Courses
IF Collaborative Discussion Certificate Program. In partnership with a team of dialogue and deliberation experts and educators, the Interactivity Foundation has created a Certificate in Collaborative Discussion program that recognizes and advances a core set of skills necessary for productive group discussion. The program offers a curated learning experience using activities assembled from the Collaborative Discussion Toolkit, which will be live in June 2021.
To find out more, you can download the program description for the Certificate in Collaborative Discussion- May 2021 (8 pages).
| Resources – for Online Courses | |
| Guidebook for Student-Facilitated Discussion in Online Courses (Wheatley-Hartman & Byrd, 2015)
|
64 pages / 5 MB 60 pages / 4 MB |
| Online Course Materials for Student-Facilitated Discussions
|
all in editable MS Word format |
| Resources – for Classroom Courses | Pages /File Size or format |
| Facilitation Workbook – Student Edition (Wheatley-Hartman, 2019-20) Also viewable online & downloadable on Issuu |
26 pages / 3.3 MB |
|
Classroom Course Materials for Student-Facilitated Discussions (Wesleyan College, 2015, 2017):
|
All PDFs |
| Guidebook for Student-Centered Classroom Discussions (1st edition, 2008) a guide for instructors using student-facilitated discussion in the classroom; also available in Albanian (2012; 141 pages/1.6 MB) | 141 pages / 581 KB |
| Teaching Tips (Byrd, Prudhomme & Lea, eds., 2009) | 30 pages / 236 KB |
| Student-Centered Discussion Strategies for the 21st-Century Classroom (Lea & Byrd, 2009) an IF White Paper | 22 pages / 322 KB |
| A Typical Week in the IF Classroom (Lea, 2009) | 3 pages / 144 KB |