Excelsior College Webinar on Managing Effective Discussions

On Tuesday November 9th myself and a few colleagues recorded a web conference for Excelsior College faculty called "Managing Effective Discussions". This webinar produced and recorded with the wonderful web conference software/service Adobe Connect Professional, focused on strategies for managing effective discussions in online courses at Excelsior College, and how developers or subject matter experts can structure or setup these discussions within development by ensuring they contain some key components. Those key components are learning outcomes, the method and way those outcomes will be measured, an initiation to orient the student to the topic of the discussion, some guiding questions or information to keep the student on track, and the main question or questions to discuss as well as the instructions for the student. I can not provide you with the link to the actual webinar as you must be an Excelsior College faculty (adjunct or full time) member, but I thought it would be helpful if a included a description of what took place because the principles can be applied to other instructional design related venues.