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Building Community Online - Teach Online
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, […]
The Power of META: Make Education Terrific Again
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…
Online Teaching Can Be Culturally Responsive
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.
Time on Task | Teaching & Learning Services | RIT
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
Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
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.
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Setting Up Effective Group Work
Truly collaborative group work is complex and messy, so we have a few tips and tools to get students working interdependently.
Using Roles in Group Work
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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UDL Center – Medium
The National Center on Universal Design for Learning at CAST. Together we can change the world.
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Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms
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...
Online Discussion Boards: Strategies to Ease Instructor Burden and Promote Student Learning
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 >
What is Bloom's Digital Taxonomy?
Learn how educators are reframing Bloom's Taxonomy through the lens of educational technology, blended learning, BYOD, flipped classrooms, and other models. ...
Syllabus Resources, with Angela Jenks – Teaching in Higher Ed
Angela Jenks on episode 289 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
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What is the Value of Social Presence in Online Learning?
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...
The Power of Social Presence for Learning
Social presence remains the key to a successful learning experience, and understanding social presence, with its critical connection to learning and c
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UDL: A Powerful Framework | Faculty Focus
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a powerful framework for educators that centers around three principles aligned with neuroscience research.
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VR, AR, News, Analysis, and Consulting Services
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.
Engaging a Village: Effective Strategies to Reach Every Corner of the Lecture Hall | Faculty Focus
How to create an active, engaged learning environment in a large classroom setting (250+ students) using technology and flipped classroom techniques.
Aluminum Foil, Bubble Wrap, and Cereal Boxes: Students Find Creative Ways to Practice Bookmaking During Remote Instruction
Faculty who teach studio art courses, which depend heavily upon experiential learning and specialized equipment and supplies, faced some significant challenges when Wellesley shifted to remote instruction in March. Yet students in ARTS222: Print Methods: Typography/Book Arts, taught by Katherine Ruffin, lecturer in art and director of the Book Studies Program, are thriving despite the physical separation, thanks to Ruffin’s advance preparation coupled with her innovative approach to virtual collaboration.
Die Weimarer Republik: Goldene Zwanziger
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What We Can Learn From Endurance Athletes About Getting Through This Pandemic
Long-distance runners, cyclists and triathletes can teach us about how to move through extended periods of discomfort.