• Begin each content module with a question that students can respond to, in a "discussion forum" on your electronic bulletin board.
• Provide a daily question on the bulletin board for students to respond to.
• Use a chat room to lead students in a debate of an assigned topic. Before the online, real-time debate, assign students into pro and con groups.
• Invite a celebrity guest to the chat room and have students interact with the person through questions and comments.

How do you or how would you use chat sessions to enhance instruction?  Dr. Mickie Swisher discusses why chat is critical to a Web-based course.  Watch Video    Here's how Dr. Rick Rudd organizes his chat sessions.  Watch Video    Swisher discusses how she starts a class chat session.. Hear more.    Dr. Dori Comer discusses one of the "downsides" to chat.  Watch Video   How do you keep a chat focused on your discussion topic? Here's how Rudd keeps his class on-target.  Hear more.

E-mail sometimes is not thought about as a distance education delivery method. Dr. John Zenger sees e-mail as the most effective of electronic communication.  Hear more.

With the primary technology you're planning to use for your distance education course, list some interactive strategies you could use to involve students.(Print a .pdf of this section's questions .)
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 Using the secondary technologies you've determined, list some interactive strategies you could use with these technologies.

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