Faculty showcase

Using blogs in online classes as a learning tool

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Dr. Sher Ratnabalasuriar shares her experiences using blogs in her online classes as a learning tool. She wanted an alternative to the traditional discussion boards that would encourage students to engage more, become more mindful about their writing ...

Using Voicethread

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

VoiceThread is a browser-based application that allows classrooms to have conversations asynchronously around images, videos, documents, presentations, and even lectures. In the classroom, VoiceThread can be used for digital student-portfolios, ...

Using Twitter and Facebook to Encourage Student Classroom and Political Engagement

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

In this online Faculty Showcase video, Drs. Gina Woodall and Tara Lennon from the School of Politics and Global Studies discuss how the use of social media, specifically Twitter and Facebook, affects classroom engagement.They challenge the presumed l ...

Best Practices for Large-Enrollment Online Courses, Part I: Managing student expectations, leveraging quizzes, and reducing grading load

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Whenever student enrollment capacity dramatically increases for an instructor, there are a number of common questions and concerns: How will the increased grading load be managed? How can instructors facilitate a discussion among 100+ students? ...

A GROUP Design Challenge…Online!

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Max Underwood, Arizona State University President’s Professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, discusses how he facilitates a design challenge for his online students. Discover how he has online students work collaboratively in gro ...

The Wide World of Videos!

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Melanie Reyes, MSW Online Program Coordinator for the School of Social Work, in her Faculty Showcase video, “The Wide World of Videos” discusses how the School of Social work uses videos to introduce faculty and staff, present field internship ...

Course Stories, Season 1, Episode #4: Don’t Fret Design: A Student-Centered Approach to Online Learning

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 3, 2022

In this episode of Course Stories, we listen to Rowena Luce and Dr. Brendan Lake discuss the evolution of MUS 194: Beginning Class Guitar 1 for Non-Majors, an online class designed and taught by ...

9 Proven Ways for Instructors to Address Online Student Retention

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

August 18, 2018

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 course co ...

Using GradeMark with Rubrics

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 9, 2012

Arizona State University Nursing instructor Patricia Harris discusses her use of rubrics and the GradeMark* functionality within Turnitin. Nursing faculty are finding that their use of these two tools:encourage transparent scoring guidelines;pr ...

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