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9 Proven Ways for Instructors to Address Online Student Retention

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

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 ...

Tips for Online Student Success

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

September 30, 2013

In the short video below (2:22) tips from actual ASU Online students are illustrated in a fun and informative animation. It’s a great video to place in the introductory area of your course to reinforce essential aspects affecting online students such ...

Video Conferencing for Synchronous Sessions – Food for Thought

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

July 23, 2013

“Synchronous video interaction can make learning more personal by providing a close approximation of the human, one-on-one experience…” (Educause, 2013)One of the most exciting aspects of video conferencing technology is the ability to conduct your c ...

Writing Measurable Learning Objectives

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

July 2, 2012

When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable, learning objectives. Effective learning objectives use action verbs to describe what you want your students to ...

How Students Cheat

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

June 28, 2012

In this video, we will look at how students cheat and how common certain acts of cheating really are. By taking a look at what students are commonly doing to be dishonest, we can develop strategies to prevent these acts.ReferencesKrutsch, J. (2008). ...

Why Students Cheat

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

June 15, 2012

When faculty are asked “why students cheat?” they often cite different reasons from what a student would say. In this video, I highlight why students cheat. We begin be looking at some of the research on why students cheat and then we look at a theor ...

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