Participation & Interaction

4.1. Regular feedback about student performance provided in a timely manner frequently throughout the course.
4.2. Each learning module includes multiple feedback opportunities to promote student achievement.
4.3. Learning modules include asynchronous, interactive communicationstrategies to promote higher order thinking (e.g. critical reflection in a discussion forum) across learning modules.
4.4. Multiple activities structured to promote students' application of concepts and skills in realistic, relevant ways to engage with the community.
4.5. Assignments effectively use external resources to facilitate inquiry and active learning, e.g., virtual library, simulations, gaming, and other web-based resources.
4.6. Learning community deliberately structured using such strategies as discussion boards, group projects, group problem-solving, discussion of assignments, activities, or other collaborative activities, as applicable to the course.
4.7. Learning activities foster instructor-student, student-student, and/or student-community interaction and collaboration (e.g. introductions, discussion, group projects, service learning).
4.8. Students encouraged to form their own independent study and work groups for learning course content.
4.9. Multiple mechanisms in place for students to give instructor and course feedback, including formal, informal, and anonymous options.

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