Seven Tips for Creating Community In Online Courses - Amy Ahearn, EdSurge

Trying to retrofit MOOCs designed for individual learning to facilitate collaboration is tougher than it might seem. As any good teacher will tell you, activities for groups have to be designed differently than assignments for individuals. If you try to give a group of fourth graders a single worksheet to complete, not much meaningful learning will occur. We think the same principle applies to online course design. Here are seven tips we’d give to instructional designers looking to build community around online courses: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-10-11-seven-tips-for-creating-community-in-online-courses