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What about the other 90 students? Why are THEY not participating? Is it the way you asked the question? Wrong timing? Anxiety? Or a sign they are in the wrong unit? “The famous ’90-9-1’ where 90% only read contributions, 9% contribute moderately and only 1% are active contributors seems to be true for many online communities (Sun, Rau, & Ma, 2014).” Why are they just lurking?
Start with ‘low-entry’ activities. “‘Safe and easy’ activities are good ‘low -entry’ points to encourage participation / break the ice with technology.” One example shared in the session was asking students to respond to a multiple-choice question of guessing the convenor’s hobby. Other ‘low-entry’ activities can include using emoticons (to indicate agreement, answers or the need for help) or typing in chat. Kahoot and Socrative were the most used tools among people who attended our podcast discussion. We also heard that are plans to pilot a new tool that can be connected to iLearn: FLUX will allow some of the same functionality but under MQ control and support, so watch this space!
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