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Designing for Neurodiversity
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 11, 2023
Designing for Neurodiversity. Download full resolution PDF here.As instructional designers and educators, we are uniquely positioned to provide support structures for neurodiverse students who might otherwise struggle to engage with a course, and the ...
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From Confusion to Clarity: Crafting instructions that draw out students’ best work
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
August 11, 2023
From Confusion to Clarity outlines a simple design strategy for crafting instructions in which requirements, the process, and grading criteria are clearly communicated, student buy-in is strong, and performance exceeds expectations.“Clear instruction ...
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Yellowdig: A Social Learning Platform
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
What is Yellowdig?Yellowdig is a social learning platform designed for higher education that integrates with any LMS. Many instructors use it instead of LMS discussion forums. The best part is that it’s auto-graded and auto-populates grade ...
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What Does it Mean to Design for Scale?
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
An Introduction to the Whys, and the Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities of Scaling Up [1]Imagine being in a meeting with your supervisor, a team of instructional designers (IDs), a project manager, media director, and administrative leadership, ...
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Building Community Online
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
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 y ...
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The Wide World of Videos!
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
Melanie Reyes, MSW Online Program Coordinator for the School of Social Work, in her Faculty Showcase video, “The Wide World of Videos” discusses how the School of Social work uses videos to introduce faculty and staff, present field internship ...
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A GROUP Design Challenge…Online!
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
Max Underwood, Arizona State University President’s Professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, discusses how he facilitates a design challenge for his online students. Discover how he has online students work collaboratively in gro ...
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Using GradeMark with Rubrics
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 9, 2012
Arizona State University Nursing instructor Patricia Harris discusses her use of rubrics and the GradeMark* functionality within Turnitin. Nursing faculty are finding that their use of these two tools:encourage transparent scoring guidelines;pr ...
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Lab Experiences
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
Using a digital learning platform you can bring traditional labs that are often done in campus immersion courses to the online learning environment, allowing students to fully immerse in the lab experience. Here we’ll explore ways to do that. Vi ...
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