Welcome to Social Interaction in Online Learning!

Supporting Online Teaching and Instructional Design
Welcome to the Social Interaction Online (or SIO) website. This site presents an approach to selecting instructional strategies for online learning that is based on published case study research in the instructional technology and design fields. Using the "situationalities framework" approach, the SIO tool can help you select instructional methods for your own online learning environment that are likely to be effective. Use the links on the left below to start using the SIO tool. Use the links at the right below to read more about the situationalities framework approach to selecting instructional methods.

	Use the SIO tool	*What is the situationalities framework?*
	*View and select:* Values Goals Methods Conditions View Cases	What is a situationality? What are values? What are goals What are methods? What are conditions? What is the situationalities framework? Papers and presentations Bibliography (102 Kb PDF)

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Social Interaction Online: http://online.sfsu.edu/~bjbeatty/sio/
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Supporting Online Teaching and Instructional Design