Course Design

The CATs in a Hat: Fostering Higher Order Thinking

By: Peter Van Leusen

May 26, 2015

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 ...

Ten Teaching Trends from the Innovating Pedagogy Report

By: DeAnna Soth

April 26, 2015

How are today’s most innovative educators engaging with their students? The 2015 Innovating Pedagogy Report proposes ten innovations that explore ways of teaching, learning, and assessment for an interactive, engaged world. The report is the fo ...

My Favorite Indie Games for Education

By: Tahnja Wilson

February 14, 2015

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 ...

How Important Is Instructor Presence in an Online Course?

By: Irma Sandercock

October 13, 2014

Creating an Educational ExperienceThe ability to establish presence is closely connected to the ability of the instructor to create a sense of community among learners in an online course. (Palloff & Pratt, The Excellent Online Instructor, 2011)R ...

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

By: Irma Sandercock

September 29, 2014

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: Irma Sandercock

September 29, 2014

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: Sean Hobson

September 29, 2014

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 ...

Using the Quality Matters Self Review Tool in Your Course

By: Justin Harding

August 18, 2014

Did you know that there is a self-review tool that is available for you to use in any of your courses? Arizona State University is committed to implement the Quality Matters standards for the design of online courses, and we are systematically buildi ...

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

By: Peter Van Leusen

July 9, 2014

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 ...

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