FLO tips - Communication, interaction and collaboration

Communication, interaction, and collaboration activities can bring your FLO topic to ‘life’ for students, by creating an engaging and social atmosphere for learning. 

  Tip 1: Establish a strategy for conveying information and ideas (communication)

Select a variety of appropriate tools to help students to communicate in different ways with teaching staff and peers.

Resources that can help

• Self-paced workshop: Communication

• Staff FLO support: Communication

   

  Tip 2: Use active approaches to learning to help students to engage (interaction)

Create practical learning activities and resources in FLO that help students to ‘do’ the work by interacting with resources and people. You can access reports and summaries to help you determine how students are interacting with resources in your FLO site.

Resources that can help

• Canvas guide: Summary of student interactions in a course

   

  Tip 3: Help students to develop teamwork and problem-solving skills and to learn from each other’s perspectives and experiences (collaboration)

Support students to develop their skills in giving, receiving and responding to constructive feedback and working in groups.

Resources that can help

• Staff FLO support: Collaboration

   

  Next steps

To find peers who are also interested in sharing FLO tips, join in the Flinders Canvas Community of Practice (CoP).