One challenge with asynchronous learning is that with students learning at their own pace it can be a challenge to maintain ongoing social interaction, especially with students that go long periods between course activities. This strategy is about ways to improve ongoing social interaction. First, I will add to my welcome email how I will provide ongoing commentary throughout the course. A good way to do this would be to use the announcement forum on the course site. By letting student’s know this at the beginning, hopefully they will stay up on the announcements forum. I will then post regular announcements related to the course content. This could also be a good forum for posting the technical resources mentioned in the previous post.
Maintaining ongoing interaction poses an additional challenge because students don’t always use their university email accounts or check the announcements page on the course site. However, as noted above, by introducing early hopefully student’s will get this message before they are too far into the course and then follow the announcements.
Finally, this paper had some great tips for asynchronous learning: https://www.ideaedu.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/IDEA%20Papers/IDEA%20Papers/PaperIDEA_64.pdf