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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 ...

Managing and Facilitating Discussions

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 24, 2020

Building Community with Discussion As an instructor, you can leverage discussions to build community in digitally enhanced courses. A satisfying digital learning experience includes opportunities for students to interact with their peers and sha ...

An Introduction to Podcasting for Online Courses

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 7, 2021

As technology capabilities increase, so does our ability to meet students where they are and accommodate different learning needs. Using podcasts as supplemental learning materials in courses offer a way to reach students in their daily lives. Studen ...

Sample Syllabus Quiz Questions

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

December 16, 2013

A syllabus quiz acts as a contract to verify understanding of important elements of the syllabus. The purpose of a syllabus quiz is not only to familiarize students with the syllabus content, but also gives students a chance to reflect on questions t ...

Supporting Online Learners

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

March 31, 2020

The transition for students to digital and online based learning can introduce a variety of new approaches to learning. Certainly in regards to structure in attended classes and then also with the asynchronous opportunities that online learning provi ...

Setting the Stage for Meaningful Peer-to-Peer Feedback

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Although many instructors integrate group-based or team-based learning activities into their teaching (see TeachOnline post on The Value of Group Work), getting students to actually provide meaningful peer-to-peer feedback can be challenging. Too oft ...

A “No-cost Course” Means New Solutions for Accessible, High-quality Material [1]

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

March 10, 2021

This article is a part of the What Does it Mean to Design for Scale? series.Everyone loves a good textbook, right? Or an online article, and a relevant YouTube video or two to get the point across? But implementing these resources can either be costl ...

9 Proven Ways for Instructors to Address Online Student Retention

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

August 18, 2018

With accessibility to online education increasing, the retention of online students has become a concern of academic leaders in higher education (Allen & Seaman, 2015). As a result, many universities have launched initiatives to improve course co ...

Are my students really getting it? CATs will show you the way.

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

In a previous post (see Gauging Student Understanding: CATs are puuuuur-fect), we introduced instructors to the idea of using Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) by Angelo and Cross (1983) to check whether students understand a certain concept. To ...