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Foundations in Excellence for Teaching Online

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 3, 2020

Foundations for excellence in teaching onlineIn this self-paced experience, you’ll learn about topics that are recognized to be effective in online teaching, yet they really can be applied in any modality.So if you’re teaching remotely, in a hybrid f ...

Group Work

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

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 ...

Instructor Presence

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

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 ...

Engagement Through Videos

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

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 ...

Design for online process infographic

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

March 29, 2020

Feel free to save this process infographic or print it out for future reference. The recommended steps for beginners to the online design process.

Don’t Scale it Alone: Why Your Instructional Designer (ID) is Your Partner in Crime [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.John and Yoko, Ross and Rachel, Abbott and Costello, Bonnie and Clyde… No doubt, the list of iconic pairings throughout history (both real-life and fictional) is a long one. ...

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

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

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 ...

Using Twitter in Your Online Course

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

January 20, 2012

The TV show ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ provides a humorous view on the use of Twitter in the surgery room, how the senior leader is skeptical about its use as a learning tool and how the professional learning network participates and in this case provides a so ...

18 Characteristics of Super Courses

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

May 7, 2021

Summary: In this article, we’ll explore 18 characteristics of powerful learning experiences as identified in Ken Bain’s book Super Courses: The Future of Teaching and Learning.Author: Brendan Lake, D.M.A., M.Ed., is a senior instructional designer wi ...