BOOK: AOD Foundations
Completion requirements
This book will provide an overview of some of the background and considerations in designing and facilitating an AOD. It's full of resources and examples to inspire your thinking.
1. Welcome to This Book!
What is this Book?
The following book provides foundational principles, inspirational examples, and many resources to guide our work as we design, develop, and facilitate an engaging asynchronous online discussion prompt.Some of the chapters begin with a video where educators from around the world with experience designing and facilitating engaging AOD share their expertise and knowledge. These are optional to watch but are there in case you like to hear from peers.
How to Navigate This Book
To read this book, you can read each page and click the Next button at the top and/or button of the page. You can also navigate to specific chapters using the table of contents on the right. To return to the FLO MicroCourse homepage, use the breadcrumbs at the top of the page (the "file structure" that appears at the top of every page... to return to the homepage, look for FLO MicroCourse: Write a compelling discussion prompt 2024).
What to Prioritize
While we hope that you will find every chapter in this book useful, we recognize that educators are busy and that you simply may not have the time to read the entire book. If that is the case, we recommend you prioritize the following chapters, as they are more likely to provide inspiration for the design of your own AOD this week:
- Steps to Designing an AOD Prompt
- Structures for the Discussion
- Writing a Prompt
- Formats and Platforms
- You may also want to read Preparing Learners for AOD, as we suspect many of you will want to adopt this resource in your own classroom.
Attributions
Some chapters in this book were adapted from CC BY NC resources. These sources are cited at the bottom of the relevant chapters. Other chapters were written by Annie Prud'homme-Généreux, 2024. All images were created by ChatGPT 4.0 and DALL-E 3.
The license for this book is CC BY NC, so you are welcome to reuse and adapt any part of it for your purposes, so long as those purposes are not commercial and you give credit to the authors.