As an instructor, you've probably experienced disengaged online discussion boards. You want students sharing insights into class assignments and engaging in productive dialogues about how to apply class concepts to their lives. Instead, students ask closed-ended questions and respond to each others' posts with one-word answers.
Michael Fricke, a business instructor at the University of Arizona, knows how challenging it can be to get students engaged in online discussions. After teaching upper-division business students for the last six years, Fricke found three techniques to turn his online discussion boards into active learning environments.
