Discussion Board
UNL Faculty Discussion Strategy: Real World Issue
Learning Goals/Purpose:
- Enable students to benefit from multidisciplinary perspectives that classmates bring to the forums.
- Have students share knowledge and experiences of key issues with classmates.
- Have students focus on workplace issues and concepts related to the course materials.
- Students help each other apply concepts to their past or current work environments.
Instructor Role:
- Initiate discussion
- Summarize responses
- Post a follow-up question to get students to think about the issue/problem in a new way
Student Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the discussion board at least 2-3 times week.
- Be willing to share personal experiences.
Process:
- The instructor posts a real-world issue/problem to the discussion board that relates to the topic for the week.
- Students are directed to respond to the issue/problem based on an experience they may have had with this issue/problem in their past. They are asked to describe how the issue/problem was resolved, if they agreed with what happened, and what they might do differently if faced with the same issue/problem based on the class readings and discussions.
Discussion Strategy is from GRBA 814, Applied Organizational Behavior. Thanks to Professor Steve Farner, Department of Management, College of Business Administration.
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