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…
True or false?: College courses should never include true or false questions. True or false questions are notoriously unreliable for student assessment, but used outside of an exam context, they can enhance student engagement.
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…
With accessibility to online education increasing, the retention of online students has become a concern of academic leaders in higher education (Allen & Seaman, 2015). As a result, many universities have launched initiatives to improve…
Defining the Term Accessible 1 in 5 people in the United States report having a disability (Brault, 2012) and approximately 1 in 10 undergraduates report having a disability according to the National Center for Educational…
Instructional Designers support faculty throughout the development of their online course. Their goal is to make online course development easier for faculty as well as to assist in making knowledge acquisition more efficient, effective, and…
Finding unique ways to implement and deliver student activities within an online course can be quite challenging to many instructors. Most of the difficulty revolves around the concepts of translating on-ground course activities to the…
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…
Check out these helpful tips on how you can leverage the powerful resources from the ASU Libraries in your courses.
…or “You can provide student feedback, but how do you know if it’s really ever read?” Instructors strive to provide effective feedback in a timely manner to help their students learn and be successful. Logistically…
In this podcast, we tell an array of course design stories alongside other ASU Online designers and faculty.
