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How Important Is Instructor Presence in an Online Course?
By: Irma Sandercock
October 13, 2014
Creating an Educational ExperienceThe 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 Online Instructor, 2011)R ...
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How Does Active Learning Support Student Success?
By: Irma Sandercock
April 30, 2025
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 “act ...
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Videos in the Classroom: Is That Really Active Learning?
By: Irma Sandercock
April 30, 2012
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 present information while also address ...
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Questions to Consider As You Prepare to Teach Your First Hybrid Course
By: Irma Sandercock
April 30, 2012
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 content, construct knowledge, engage in critical thin ...
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To Get the Right Answer, You Have to Ask the Right Question
By: Irma Sandercock
April 30, 2012
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 of these skills is e ...
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