“EdPlus Digital Learning Team”
Designing & Organizing Your Yellowdig Board: Folksonomy & Taxonomy in Yellowdig
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
If you need a little background on what Yellowdig is and how to use it, refer to this: Yellowdig: A Social Learning Platform.With a little poking around, you’ll notice the useful feature of pinning a post to the top of the board, ensuring students se ...
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Quick and Easy Course Improvements All Online Instructors Should Consider
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
February 14, 2019
Many articles and workshops explore complex concepts and tools that may not be suitable for everyone. With this in mind, I asked our instructional design team at ASU Online, “What are some easy, non-technical, low-hanging-fruit-type enhancement ...
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Instructional Design Models and Theories: Instructional Design Theories for Your Next Course
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 20, 2018
One of the most difficult questions for a course developer to answer is which instructional design theory or theories is best suited to the course being developed. To answer this question, it is important to be aware of the various instructional desi ...
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What Makes a Remarkable Online Course? Part 2: Course Teaching and Facilitation Recommendations from ASU Faculty
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
What makes a learning experience for online students truly remarkable? We recently surveyed a group of ASU faculty to identify course design and facilitation elements they believe help to create remarkable learning experiences for online students. Fo ...
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Troubleshooting Checklist for Online Instructors
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
Troubleshooting skills are critical for online instructors. Although ASU has 24/7 Help Desk support, being able to troubleshoot common LMS issues will save you and your students time and frustration. When asking for technical support, it’s helpful to ...
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Fair Use Week – Fair Use in Online Instruction
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
This week is Fair Use Week, a dedicated time to promote and discuss the opportunities Fair Use gives us in our daily activities. Fair Use is probably the most powerful component of U.S. Copyright law, and the most misunderstood. Section 107 of the U. ...
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Four Instructor Tips for Incorporating New Technologies into your Online Course
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
July 13, 2015
Finding unique ways to implement and deliver student activities within an online course can be quite challenging to many instructors. Most of the difficulty revolves around the concepts of translating on-ground course activities to the online e ...
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Instructional Design Models and Theories: Operant Conditioning Theory
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
August 6, 2018
The components of Operant Conditioning are Reinforcement and Punishment. There is positive and negative reinforcement, as well as positive and negative punishment. Positive reinforcing, such as praising or rewarding, strength ...
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My Favorite Indie Games for Education
By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team
April 30, 2025
In June, I was fortunate to again attend the Games for Change (G4C) festival in New York. As in past years, the highlight for me was hearing indie developers talk about how their game vision was realized by conscious selection of various storyt ...
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