Students learn to work online and depend on each other to complete projects.
Group work can be promoted by creating a common discussion area, creating and posting a list of course related Web sites, hosting online guest speakers, and requesting student recommendations for the list of interesting Web sites. Maintaining effective student groups in an online course takes effort and sometimes patience. Group Work Group work should begin with a discussion of group roles and group goals. Written guidelines help students and instructors. When groups are not working well, teachers may need to join in on the discussions to monitor or moderate discussions, even though the goal of group.