…or “You can provide student feedback, but how do you know if it’s really ever read?” Instructors strive to provide effective feedback in a timely manner to help their students learn and be successful. Logistically…
Creating an Educational Experience The ability to establish presence is closely connected to the ability of the instructor to create a sense of community among learners in an online course. (Palloff & Pratt, The Excellent…
We want our students to develop those higher order thinking skills that are so crucial to developing those much talked about 21st Century Skills including the ability to think critically, synthesize, and evaluate. The development…
This is the second article in a series on Active Learning. Click here to read an earlier TeachOnline blog post on how active learning promotes student success. Videos are considered an especially effective way to…
Although most educators now recognize that the instructional paradigm has transitioned from an instructor-centered model featuring lecture as the primary means of delivering content, to a more student-center model featuring active learning to promote increased…
A hybrid course is much more than just an online course with a face-to-face class session thrown in for good measure. It involves asking, “What is the best way for students to interact with course…
As the paradigm shifts towards learner-centered approaches to instruction, active learning has gained increased attention in higher education circles. You may have even seen images of classrooms that have undergone extensive renovation to become “active…
A recent Faculty Focus article, “Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice to the Online Classroom,” identified seven principles of good instruction that are important considerations when designing or facilitating an online course.
In this podcast, we tell an array of course design stories alongside other ASU Online designers and faculty.
