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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 ...

The CATs in a Hat: Fostering Higher Order Thinking

By: Peter Van Leusen

May 26, 2015

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 ...

How Important Is Instructor Presence in an Online Course?

By: Irma Sandercock

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 ...

Questions to Consider As You Prepare to Teach Your First Hybrid Course

By: Irma Sandercock

September 29, 2014

A hybrid course is much more than just an online course with a face-to-face class session thrown in for good measure. It involves asking, “What is the best way for students to interact with course content, construct knowledge, engage in critical thin ...

Gauging Student Understanding: CATs are puuuuur-fect

By: Peter Van Leusen

February 7, 2014

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 ...

It’s the Middle of the Semester… So, What Do My Students Really Think?

By: Peter Van Leusen

October 21, 2013

“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 with other faculty and instructors, we might be ne ...

To Get the Right Answer, You Have to Ask the Right Question

By: Irma Sandercock

April 30, 2012

We want our students to develop those higher order thinking skills that are so crucial to developing those much talked about 21st Century Skills including the ability to think critically, synthesize, and evaluate. The development of these skills is e ...

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