“EdPlus Digital Learning Team”
Using the Quality Matters Self Review Tool in Your Course
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
Did you know that there is a self-review tool that is available for you to use in any of your courses? Arizona State University is committed to implement the Quality Matters standards for the design of online courses, and we are systematically buildi ...
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Using True or False Questions for Student Engagement in Your Course
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
November 2, 2015
True or false?: College courses should never include true or false questions.True or false questions are notoriously unreliable for student assessment, but used outside of an exam context, they can enhance student engagement.As most instructors are a ...
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Engage your Students with the 6 C’s of Motivation
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
Imagine you’re an online instructor in the middle of a semester. Every week at the 11:59 pm deadline, students submit assignments that barely meet the rubric minimums. The discussion boards and virtual office hours are ghost towns, and you’re not con ...
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Letting Go of Tradition: Universal Instructional Design for Adult Learners
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
The words “college student” evoke an image of a fresh-faced youth, eager to take in their first years of independence in the dorms of a university, and pursue their education to begin a career. Indeed, the description of a “traditional” student is a ...
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Making Online Classroom Discussion More Dynamic and Engaging
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
January 31, 2014
Generating discussion in the online classroom can often be a difficult process, especially for those used to facilitating in a more traditional manner. Many learning platforms offer limited opportunities for faculty-student interaction and some instr ...
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Best Practices for Large-Enrollment Online Courses, Part 2: Managing groups, peer review, and other peer-to-peer interactions
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
Whenever student enrollment capacity dramatically increases for an instructor, there are a number of common questions and concerns: How will instructors manage increased grading load? How can instructors facilitate a discussion among 100+ stude ...
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A Brief Guide to Producing Videos from Your Home or Office
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
Written by Jessica Cole and Robert Behnke.The benefits of instructor-created video in online courses include increased student engagement and learning, increased instructor presence, and a greater student-to-instructor connection.[1-3] If you teach o ...
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Best Practices for Large-Enrollment Online Courses, Part I: Managing student expectations, leveraging quizzes, and reducing grading load
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
Whenever student enrollment capacity dramatically increases for an instructor, there are a number of common questions and concerns: How will the increased grading load be managed? How can instructors facilitate a discussion among 100+ students? ...
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The Best Online Faculty
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
February 15, 2018
The instructional design and development team in ASU Online currently provides support for over 1,000 online courses in over 100 fully online programs. The faculty who design and deliver the online courses are key to the success of the course build p ...
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