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Using Course Surveys to Foster an Inclusive Environment in Online Courses
By: London Skiles
October 29, 2021
Improving course climate in online courses helps create a more equitable online space and plays a significant role in student success. Among other characteristics, equitable spaces: value diversity and foster safe, trusting environments (Gay, 20 ...
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Striving for Equity, Inclusion, and Student Success in Online Course Facilitation
By: Kody Stimpson
November 3, 2021
Built into ASU’s charter is measuring our success “not by whom we exclude, but rather by whom we include and how they succeed”. As an Instructional Design team for Edplus, we share the incredible opportunity with faculty to help provide equitab ...
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Faculty Round Table: Canvas Skills, Intrusion, and Inclusion
By: Mary Loder
December 9, 2021
In this podcast, Jason Bronowitz, Christina Carrasquilla, and Chad Westover from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering share their experiences and recommendations for online teaching. The trio discuss how to make Canvas work for you, as well as st ...
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’Gogy Galore: Pedagogy, Andragogy, Heutagogy & Course Design
By: Marisa Ruiz
December 17, 2021
By Marisa Ruiz & Mary ChabaanYou’ve heard of pedagogy, but how familiar are you with heutagogy? With more faculty moving to the online, asynchronous modality, it’s a good time to review the three principal ‘’gogies’ and how characteristics of eac ...
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Cheaters Never Prosper
By: Marc Van Horne
August 26, 2015
This post was updated on October 10, 2019.“How do you prevent cheating in online courses?” Since 1995, when the ASU Online instructional design team first started working with faculty to develop online courses, this is one of the most common que ...
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Designing e-learning for students with low internet access
By: Tracy Tenkorang
April 12, 2022
By Tracy Tenkorang, Project Assistant & Kim Welch, Instructional DesignerTracy Tenkorang is a Ghanaian graduate student at Arizona Sate University. Kim Welch works on an e-learning initiative with institutions in multiple countries.Have you ever ...
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Creative Assessments: You Can Do It!
By: Christine Moore
July 12, 2022
Christine Moore is an Instructional Designer at EdPlus.Creative assessments (CAs) go beyond traditional quizzes and essays and allow students to demonstrate their knowledge in a way that is important to them, relevant to modern courses of study, and ...
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Introducing the ASU Instructional Designers [Infographic]
By: Marc Van Horne
October 17, 2013
PDF download used with permissionAbout 40 staff members at Arizona State University have the words Instructional Design or Instructional Designer in their job title. Even though there are a lot of them about (and some have been at ASU for quite a lon ...
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InScribe & Digital, Community-Powered Pedagogy
By: Michael Miller
August 29, 2022
Michael Miller is an Instructional Designer and Academic Success & Retention Specialist on the Learning Initiatives Team at EdPlus.What is InScribe?InScribe is a new digital tool in ASU’s suite that empowers students to engage with each other bey ...
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