Course Design

Defining Cheating

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

When someone says “Don’t cheat” what do they really mean? Students often commit acts of academic dishonesty not because they are lazy, but because they did not understand that what they were doing was considered cheating. This video will explore vari ...

Designing Office Hours

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Optional office hours can transform your online courses when they’re creatively designed and thoughtfully implemented. They offer a flexible support system that adapts to each student’s learning needs. These sessions encourage participation, guide in ...

Recording Weekly Overview Videos

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Creating weekly overview videos is beneficial for your course in several ways. The largest benefit of creating these overviews is instructor presence. Creating instructor presence is crucial to online courses as having a strong instructor presence an ...

To Get the Right Answer, You Have to Ask the Right Question

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

We want our students to develop those higher order thinking skills that are so crucial to developing those much talked about 21st Century Skills including the ability to think critically, synthesize, and evaluate. The development of these skills is e ...

Questions to Consider As You Prepare to Teach Your First Hybrid Course

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

A hybrid course is much more than just an online course with a face-to-face class session thrown in for good measure. It involves asking, “What is the best way for students to interact with course content, construct knowledge, engage in critical thin ...

Videos in the Classroom: Is That Really Active Learning?

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

This is the second article in a series on Active Learning. Click here to read an earlier TeachOnline blog post on how active learning promotes student success.Videos are considered an especially effective way to present information while also address ...

Design Thinking for Educators

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Design Thinking Can Make You a Better Teacher! Getting StartedDesign Thinking is a mindset grounded in believing that you can make a difference and using an intentional process in order to get to new, relevant solutions that create positive impact.De ...

Quality Matters Overview

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Arizona State University is committed to implement the Quality Matters standards for the design of online courses, and we are systematically building and evaluating our courses based on these rigorous, research-based standards. The Quality Matters st ...

The CATs in a Hat: Fostering Higher Order Thinking

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

This is the third article in our series on Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) which can be used to gauge lesson effectiveness and student comprehension. To review, CATs were developed by Angelo and Cross (1983) to efficiently check whether studen ...

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