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“Renee Pilbeam”

Learning Design

Learning Design


By: Renee Pilbeam

March 19, 2020

Learning design is the intentional and deliberate planning of your learning experience to ensure that you create a course that is valuable to your learners, gets them the knowledge and skills they require, and is an engaging and enriching experience. ...

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Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives


By: Renee Pilbeam

March 19, 2020

Learning objectives are one of the foundational pieces to designing and developing a learning experience. Writing them can be challenging at first, but with some practice and support you’ll quickly improve.Video Introduction:This video (4:18) will pr ...

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Assessment

Assessment


By: Renee Pilbeam

March 19, 2020

Your assessment strategy for your course should be driven by your learning objectives, be varied, and include both formative and summative assessments.Video Introduction:In this video (4:06) we’ll explore assessments more in-depth. Additional Re ...

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Enhancing Materials for Online

Enhancing Materials for Online


By: Renee Pilbeam

March 18, 2020

As you begin to think about creating course content and assets for use in a full digital immersion setting you might start thinking about creating content like video lectures to support your learning objectives. Please find the below resources to sup ...

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Lab Experiences

Lab Experiences


By: Renee Pilbeam

March 19, 2020

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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Group Work

Group Work


By: Renee Pilbeam

March 23, 2020

Group work online can offer a wide range of benefits to your learners. You will likely need to structure the group work a bit more, provide some additional supports and do a bit of pre-planning to help your online learners be successful in their coll ...

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Instructor Presence

Instructor Presence


By: Renee Pilbeam

April 16, 2020

Establishing and maintaining a strong sense of instructor presence is of utmost importance when teaching an online course. Not only does it help learners feels connected to the instructor and the course, it can lessen any feelings of isolation and in ...

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Engagement Through Videos

Engagement Through Videos


By: Renee Pilbeam

April 16, 2020

Chances are that if you’ve considered developing an online course, you’ve thought about the role that video will play in your content delivery approach. Videos are visually rich engagement tools that can be leveraged for all types of course communica ...

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Building Community Online

Building Community Online


By: Renee Pilbeam

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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