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Assessments with Rubrics

By: Peter Van Leusen

August 13, 2013

Assessing students’ work is a common activity in the life of any instructor, and depending on the number of students and type of assignment, can be a long and tedious process. Even after sharing grades and posting feedback, students are often interes ...

Using the Quality Matters Self Review Tool in Your Course

By: Justin Harding

August 18, 2014

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 ...

Using True or False Questions for Student Engagement in Your Course

By: Brendan Lake

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 ...

Engage your Students with the 6 C’s of Motivation

By: Brendan Lake

November 6, 2017

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 ...

Letting Go of Tradition: Universal Instructional Design for Adult Learners

By: Angie Bond

March 23, 2017

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 ...

Making Online Classroom Discussion More Dynamic and Engaging

By: Ada Martin

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 ...

Best Practices for Large-Enrollment Online Courses, Part 2: Managing groups, peer review, and other peer-to-peer interactions

By: Mary Loder

October 2, 2018

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 ...

A Brief Guide to Producing Videos from Your Home or Office

By: Jessica Cole

July 23, 2019

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 ...

Best Practices for Large-Enrollment Online Courses, Part I: Managing student expectations, leveraging quizzes, and reducing grading load

By: Brendan Lake

July 18, 2019

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? ...