Note: I will refer to educators as designers and their learners as artists A learning management system is just a box. It's a place to put things that will help  designers facilitate engaging activities for their artists. This leads many designers to believe that they have to "

The Mission Eames: Listen, if you’re going to perform inception you need imagination. Dom Cobb: Let me ask you something, have you done it before? Eames: We tried it. We got the idea in place, but it didn’t take. Dom Cobb: You didn’t plant it deep enough?

Discussions are ideal forums for building both community cohesion and affective association. These qualities promote social presence and by extension increase the likelihood of increased engagement. That feeling of being isolated that so many students feel especially in online only spaces can be reduced by using these strategies. These strategies

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