Search results found for:

“”

How Important Is Instructor Presence in an Online Course?

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

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 ...

15 Ways Instructional Designers Can Assist Faculty

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

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 appealin ...

Using Course Surveys to Foster an Inclusive Environment in Online Courses

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

October 29, 2021

Improving course climate in online courses helps create a more equitable online space and plays a significant role in student success. Among other characteristics, equitable spaces: value diversity and foster safe, trusting environments (Gay, 20 ...

Striving for Equity, Inclusion, and Student Success in Online Course Facilitation

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

November 3, 2021

Built into ASU’s charter is measuring our success “not by whom we exclude, but rather by whom we include and how they succeed”.  As an Instructional Design team for Edplus, we share the incredible opportunity with faculty to help provide equitab ...

Faculty Round Table: Canvas Skills, Intrusion, and Inclusion

By: Mary Loder

December 9, 2021

In this podcast, Jason Bronowitz, Christina Carrasquilla, and Chad Westover from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering share their experiences and recommendations for online teaching. The trio discuss how to make Canvas work for you, as well as st ...

’Gogy Galore: Pedagogy, Andragogy, Heutagogy & Course Design

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

December 17, 2021

By Marisa Ruiz & Mary ChabaanYou’ve heard of pedagogy, but how familiar are you with heutagogy? With more faculty moving to the online, asynchronous modality, it’s a good time to review the three principal ‘’gogies’ and how characteristics of eac ...

Cheaters Never Prosper

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

August 26, 2015

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 one of the most common que ...

Designing e-learning for students with low internet access

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 12, 2022

By Tracy Tenkorang, Project Assistant & Kim Welch, Instructional DesignerTracy Tenkorang is a Ghanaian graduate student at Arizona Sate University. Kim Welch works on an e-learning initiative with institutions in multiple countries.Have you ever ...

Creative Assessments: You Can Do It!

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

July 12, 2022

Christine Moore is an Instructional Designer at EdPlus.Creative assessments (CAs) go beyond traditional quizzes and essays and allow students to demonstrate their knowledge in a way that is important to them, relevant to modern courses of study, and ...