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    Creative Online Icebreakers: Over 30 Tips and Real Examples for Online Instructors to Initiate Social Exchanges and Conversations in Online Courses
    Creative Online Icebreakers: Over 30 Tips and Real Examples for Online Instructors to Initiate Social Exchanges and Conversations in Online Courses
    Creative Online Icebreakers: Over 30 Tips and Real Examples for Online Instructors to Initiate Social Exchanges and Conversations in Online Courses
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    Creative Online Icebreakers: Over 30 Tips and Real Examples for Online Instructors to Initiate Social Exchanges and Conversations in Online Courses

    By Dr. Aisyah Saad and Dr. Radziah Adam

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    Are you an online course instructor and looking for new ideas to 'break the ice' in your course? To kickstart interactions and engagement amongst your online learners? 
    An essential element in a well-designed online course, an icebreaker is often the first activity for online participants to get to know each other. This idea book reveals more than 30 tips and real examples of online icebreaker activities. Each activity features sample instructions, sources and examples plus tips. Simply pluck any one of these icebreakers right off the page and use it for your course. Icebreakers help to connect online participants to one another and create a sense of belonging to an online community of learners. These icebreaker activities have been proven fun and effective in several online courses.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Aisyah Saad
    Release dateJul 25, 2017
    ISBN9781386622253
    Creative Online Icebreakers: Over 30 Tips and Real Examples for Online Instructors to Initiate Social Exchanges and Conversations in Online Courses

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    Creative Online Icebreakers - Dr. Aisyah Saad

    Why we need icebreakers for online courses?

    Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care. Margaret Wheatley

    Effective icebreakers are often simple, fun and creative. Having icebreakers at the beginning of an online course is an effective strategy to help students to get on-board into an online community of learners. It plays an essential role in an online course–where absence of the face-to-face interactions is typical. Icebreakers facilitate online learners to initiate social interchanges and conversations, develop a sense of belonging in a learning environment by fostering openness and bonding experiences. Through social learning, learners are encouraged to interact and collaborate in your online course. It is a good practice for online instructors to incorporate icebreakers in the design of an online course.

    This book is a culmination of our experiences conducting educators’ workshops on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). As Master trainers and MOOC managers, we are always on the lookout for new, practical ways to make online courses attractive and interesting to learners. Early on, we realised that it was not easy to design an effective icebreaking session for online

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