student engagement

The CATs in a Hat: Fostering Higher Order Thinking

By: Peter Van Leusen

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 ...

Gauging Student Understanding: CATs are puuuuur-fect

By: Peter Van Leusen

April 30, 2025

Do you find yourself wondering whether your online students are really learning? Whether they are really getting it? During face-to-face classes, an instructor often can use visual cues, such as a puzzled look or a nodding head from a student, to gau ...

Setting the Stage for Meaningful Peer-to-Peer Feedback

By: Peter Van Leusen

April 30, 2025

Although many instructors integrate group-based or team-based learning activities into their teaching (see TeachOnline post on The Value of Group Work), getting students to actually provide meaningful peer-to-peer feedback can be challenging. Too oft ...

My Favorite Indie Games for Education

By: Tahnja Wilson

April 30, 2025

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 ...

VoiceThread for Online Presence and Engagement

By: Jessica Cole

June 24, 2020

VoiceThread is an interactive learning tool that increases student engagement and online presence. It allows instructors and students to create, share, and comment on images, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, and other media, using a microphone, we ...

Managing and Facilitating Discussions

By: Marisa Ruiz

April 24, 2020

Building Community with Discussion As an instructor, you can leverage discussions to build community in digitally enhanced courses. A satisfying digital learning experience includes opportunities for students to interact with their peers and sha ...

Troubleshooting Checklist for Online Instructors

By: DeAnna Soth

March 4, 2019

Troubleshooting skills are critical for online instructors. Although ASU has 24/7 Help Desk support, being able to troubleshoot common LMS issues will save you and your students time and frustration. When asking for technical support, it’s helpful to ...

Quick and Easy Course Improvements All Online Instructors Should Consider

By: Brendan Lake

February 14, 2019

Many articles and workshops explore complex concepts and tools that may not be suitable for everyone. With this in mind, I asked our instructional design team at ASU Online, “What are some easy, non-technical, low-hanging-fruit-type enhancement ...

9 Proven Ways for Instructors to Address Online Student Retention

By: Peter Van Leusen

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 ...

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