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Course Stories, Season 6, Episode 5: Scaling Mount Everest in the Classroom: TMC 330 and Gamifying Leadership at ASU

Course Stories, Season 6, Episode 5: Scaling Mount Everest in the Classroom: TMC 330 and Gamifying Leadership at ASU


By: Course Stories Podcast

April 24, 2025

Ready for a story of educational evolution? On the latest episode of Course Stories, we dive into the inspiring transformation of TMC 330: Leading the Enterprise. What happens when you take a good course and make it truly exceptional? Join us as we c ...

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Course Stories, Season 6, Episode 1: MCO 375: Pod-ception!

Course Stories, Season 6, Episode 1: MCO 375: Pod-ception!


By: Course Stories Podcast

February 15, 2025

Join us this week as we bring you a podcast about… podcasting! It’s a pod-ception! We sit down with Roddy Nikpour, Assistant Teaching Professor, and DeAnna Soth, Director of Instructional Design, to discuss how they took podcasting from the studio to ...

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Course Stories, Season 4, Episode 1: Welcome to Course Stories Season 4

Course Stories, Season 4, Episode 1: Welcome to Course Stories Season 4


By: Course Stories Podcast

August 28, 2023

Join us for an exciting preview episode of Course Stories! In this special preview episode, we're thrilled to introduce our new Producer, Elizabeth Lee. Join us as we delve into our summer experiences and provide an exclusive sneak peek at the captiv ...

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Integrating Technology with Bloom’s Taxonomy

Integrating Technology with Bloom’s Taxonomy


By: Obiageli Sneed

May 9, 2016

Creating authentic learning experiences for students is an essential element in online course delivery.  Through recent discussion instructors have inquired “How do we provide meaningful learning experiences for students using tools that are int ...

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Insight Surveys: From day one, foster personal connections, belonging and student success

Insight Surveys: From day one, foster personal connections, belonging and student success


By: Christine Moore

November 13, 2024

As online educators, we know the importance of building an inclusive and supportive learning environment. While it’s easy to focus on course design, content delivery, and grading strategies, creating a space where students feel heard and supported is ...

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Writing Measurable Learning Objectives

Writing Measurable Learning Objectives


By: Tracy Smith

July 2, 2012

When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable, learning objectives. Effective learning objectives use action verbs to describe what you want your students to ...

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Best Practices for Designing Effective Rubrics

Best Practices for Designing Effective Rubrics


By: Mary Chaaban

February 8, 2019

By Philip Arcuria & Maryrose ChaabanRubrics: A DefinitionRubrics have become a highly touted and ubiquitous tool in the proverbial assessment toolbox of higher education instructors. Rubrics can provide a wide range of benefits, from providing co ...

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Instructional Design Models and Theories: Connectionism

Instructional Design Models and Theories: Connectionism


By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

February 8, 2018

Connectionism theory is based on the principle of active learning and is the result of the work of the American psychologist Edward Thorndike. This work led to Thorndike’s Laws. According to these Laws, learning is achieved when an individual is able ...

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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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