Peer Editing / Review is an evaluative understanding level activity in which student judge the accuracy, credibility, value, etc. of the work of other students.

Appropriate Content Areas

All. Appropriate at all times, but generally past the mid point of a course when the students have more content understanding. Less common in laboratory courses involving primarily group work already.

Goals and Objectives

The goals of peer editing are to develop the evaluative knowledge over a given topic and a given mode of expression.

An oral report is simply the oral report of an activity done by a student. It can be either synchronous or asynchronous and may or may not be accompanied by slides.

Appropriate Content Areas

All. Appropriate at all times, but generally past the mid point of a course when the students have more content and technology background. Obviously common in any course teaching oral discourse or language.

The idea of a literature review is for students to research a topic and prepare a report on that topic with proper citations to literature used.

Goals and Objectives

The goal of a literature review is for students to develop an advanced level of knowledge about a given topic. Additional goals include knowledge of performing literature research and ability to critically review literature.

A learning contract is an agreement developed by the student and instructor providing achievement goals that the student will attain during a set period of time with a given amount of input by the instructor.

Goals & Objectives

The contract itself is a way of setting goals and objectives. It can serve as a refinement of general objectives given for the course, specifying how goals will be achieved.

Materials and Resources

The instructor provides instructions.

Students conduct laboratory exercises using supplied chemicals or other materials as appropriate. Procedure and Product are then reported. In some instances, the virtual lab will not suffice, and students will attend a session on campus for the laboratory exercises physically face-to-face. In some cases, the actual lab may be semi-virtual, however, fully virtual lab exercises would be considered a simulation and are included in that activity category.

Appropriate Content Areas

Often used in Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and related fields.

This activity does not refer to other activities that have added a physical component, but rather activities that are primarily kinesthetic in action and learning. This is probably the least used online activity.

Appropriate Content Areas

Primarily used in dance, theater, and physical education/kinesiology, and therapy.

Students write a continuous journal of activity, usually guided by instructor prompts. As the term progresses, these journals will be continuously updated, allowing for a personal history of learning.

Appropriate Content Areas

Can be used in most subject areas. Especially useful in humanities, writing, and sciences.

Goals and Objectives

The core components of journaling objectives include but are not limited to:

In a typical jigsaw activity, students are given a topic on which to become an expert, either individually or as part of a group. The student or group of students then teaches the material to the rest of the class. This is usually done by having the students redistribute into new groups with one expert from each topic present in each of the new groups. The new group then takes turns teaching each other the materials for which each individual is an expert.

Students are given a topic on which to find an expert to interview or they are given a type of person to interview. An alternative is the ‘pretend’ interview in which the student writes up what an interview with a particular interview might be like, such as interviewing a signer of the U.S. Constitution or more philosophical such as from the perspective of a bat.