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…
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…
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…
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…
“Wait, are we already that far into the semester? There is so much left to do in so little time!” If this is a constant thought on your mind, or an all-familiar expression in recent conversations…
A recent Faculty Focus article, “Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice to the Online Classroom,” identified seven principles of good instruction that are important considerations when designing or facilitating an online course.
Dr. Deborah Henderson uses her course Announcements to increase student engagement with the course content and herself and to reinforce and expand upon course concepts. She writes, “Taking in all the weekly posts at once,…
In this podcast, we tell an array of course design stories alongside other ASU Online designers and faculty.
