Teaching and Learning

There are many important steps in developing curriculum and instruction. This course goes over many of these topics, including creating learning objectives, determining scope and sequence, and understanding your target audience.

How can we make videoconferencing a rewarding experience? How do we create webinars that don’t suck? Last week I tried a new group exercise which actually turned out well, and I wanted to sh…

Renee M. Pilbeam, Ph.D. is in the role of Online Learning Manager – Special Projects and Strategic Initiatives at EdPlus at Arizona State University. Building a sense of community amongst your learners in an online course can offer great benefits to your learners and their persistence in your learning experience while also creating a rich, […]

RETRIEVAL PRACTICE AND FEEDBACK FOR READING COMPREHENSION Paul A. Kirschner & Mirjam Neelen Tips from two overview studies: Learners learn better when using practice tests and they remember a t…

Amid school closures, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator is trying with her fifth grade students.

Download an expanded version of this article (PDF)Understanding how time “works” in online courses can be a challenge for instructors:How do I determine the total time on task expected of students?How can I calculate the time students will need to complete course work?What should students be doing to accomplish course goals and learning outcomes?What should I be doing with my

Find out how to apply learning science in online classes The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom. This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains. Explains how you can support your online students Helps your students find success in this non-traditional learning environment Covers online and blended learning Addresses specific challenges that online instructors face in higher education Small Teaching Online presents research-based teaching techniques from an online instructional design expert and the bestselling author ofSmall Teaching.

Truly collaborative group work is complex and messy, so we have a few tips and tools to get students working interdependently.

While collaborative learning through group work has been proven to have the potential to produce stronger academic achievement than other kinds of learning environments (Johnson, Johnson, & Smith, 2006), it can be challenging to implement successfully because many students come to college withou

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by Derek Bruff, Director If you’ve read Norman Clark’s hypothetical day in the life of a physically distanced classroom, then you’ve probably started to worry about how faculty and other instructors might facilitate discussion, group work, and other forms of active learning this fall. If I’m standing at the front of the classroom with half...

Flickr Photo Courtesy Of: Eric Wignall Teaching Online Across Devices In online courses, discussion forums provide a place for student-to-student and instructor-to-student interaction. Within discussion forums, students share thoughts and review the ideas of others modeled through collegial, dialogic Read More >

Learn how educators are reframing Bloom's Taxonomy through the lens of educational technology, blended learning, BYOD, flipped classrooms, and other models. ...

Angela Jenks on episode 289 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Online classes come in different flavors. Some are like fast food drive thrus; while others are like rich, community-oriented gatherings. What will the recip...

Social presence remains the key to a successful learning experience, and understanding social presence, with its critical connection to learning and c

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a powerful framework for educators that centers around three principles aligned with neuroscience research.

Digital Bodies offers news and analysis of VR, AR, and AI and how they will revolutionize the future of learning, work, and entertainment. We offer education consulting services, Augmented and Virtual Reality workshops, interactive sessions, and keynote talks on emerging technologies and the ethical challenges in our future.

How to create an active, engaged learning environment in a large classroom setting (250+ students) using technology and flipped classroom techniques.