The first thing you need to dfo in a paper like this is identify the needs. These were organized into three themes: language, content, and engagement. So far so good., Then they asked a few professors and instructional designers what sort of strategies they employed. Techniques described by the 1`5 participants included subtitles, multiple discussion venues, meet-and-greet, teaching assistants, and Power Point study guides. The instructors were "surprised at the tremendous volume of diversity among the population in regard to their age; their language, cultural, ethnic, and educational background; and their patterns of engagement in the course. The paper wasn't bad and happily stayed away from quantitative analysis, happily, but I felt it covered ground that has already been very well covered in the past.
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