Prompting students

What would you do if you saw the following question in a conference you are running?



"My learners expect me to answer their questions. What should I do so that they don't always look to me to be the expert?"


You as a teacher can do three possible things (they could be more, but i can only think of these right now):


1. ask them that before to making you a quentions they have first to read different sources, but this has more impact if it done at the beginning of the course, however it could make your learners to close up to you.
2. turn the question aroun: help them change the perspextive in which they are viewing the problem and ask them to try it again suggesting them sources.
3. make a section of questions and answers in which the learners can express theirs doubts, but with the condition that if they write a question they have to help clear the doubt of one their e-classmates to get the answer, so the teacher has only to check how the things progress.