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Letting Go of Tradition: Universal Instructional Design for Adult Learners

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

The words “college student” evoke an image of a fresh-faced youth, eager to take in their first years of independence in the dorms of a university, and pursue their education to begin a career. Indeed, the description of a “traditional” student is a ...

Making Online Classroom Discussion More Dynamic and Engaging

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

January 31, 2014

Generating discussion in the online classroom can often be a difficult process, especially for those used to facilitating in a more traditional manner. Many learning platforms offer limited opportunities for faculty-student interaction and some instr ...

Best Practices for Large-Enrollment Online Courses, Part 2: Managing groups, peer review, and other peer-to-peer interactions

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 instructors manage increased grading load?  How can instructors facilitate a discussion among 100+ stude ...

A Brief Guide to Producing Videos from Your Home or Office

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Written by Jessica Cole and Robert Behnke.The benefits of instructor-created video in online courses include increased student engagement and learning, increased instructor presence, and a greater student-to-instructor connection.[1-3] If you teach o ...

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? ...

The Best Online Faculty

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

February 15, 2018

The instructional design and development team in ASU Online currently provides support for over 1,000 online courses in over 100 fully online programs. The faculty who design and deliver the online courses are key to the success of the course build p ...

Academic Integrity

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

March 30, 2020

Much the same as with campus-immersion or face-to-face courses, promoting a culture of integrity online is of upmost importance. Concerns of students cheating or violating academic integrity exist regardless of the mode of teaching, but there are a v ...

Aligning Assessments with Learning Objectives

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

When you are creating a course, strive to design with the end in mind. After you have established a set of measurable learning objectives for your course, work to develop assessments that are aligned with your stated learning objectives. Think of the ...

Instructional Design Models and Theories: Schema Theory

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

July 29, 2018

The schema theory was one of the leading cognitivist learning theories and was introduced by Bartlett in 1932 and further developed in the ’70s by Richard Anderson. Bartlett advanced this concept to provide a basis for a temporal alternative to tradi ...