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Defining Cheating

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

When someone says “Don’t cheat” what do they really mean? Students often commit acts of academic dishonesty not because they are lazy, but because they did not understand that what they were doing was considered cheating. This video will explore vari ...

Videos in the Classroom: Is That Really Active Learning?

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

This is the second article in a series on Active Learning. Click here to read an earlier TeachOnline blog post on how active learning promotes student success.Videos are considered an especially effective way to present information while also address ...

Design Thinking for Educators

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Design Thinking Can Make You a Better Teacher! Getting StartedDesign Thinking is a mindset grounded in believing that you can make a difference and using an intentional process in order to get to new, relevant solutions that create positive impact.De ...

Third-Party Tools Used in ASU Online Courses

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Over 100 third-party tools and services are used by faculty and students in ASU Online courses. With the 50+ companies indicated here in bold, ASU Online has established a connection with a vendor representative. These relationships provide ASU Onlin ...

How Does Active Learning Support Student Success?

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

As the paradigm shifts towards learner-centered approaches to instruction, active learning has gained increased attention in higher education circles. You may have even seen images of classrooms that have undergone extensive renovation to become “act ...

Are my students really getting it? CATs will show you the way.

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

In a previous post (see Gauging Student Understanding: CATs are puuuuur-fect), we introduced instructors to the idea of using Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) by Angelo and Cross (1983) to check whether students understand a certain concept. To ...

Setting the Stage for Meaningful Peer-to-Peer Feedback

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Although many instructors integrate group-based or team-based learning activities into their teaching (see TeachOnline post on The Value of Group Work), getting students to actually provide meaningful peer-to-peer feedback can be challenging. Too oft ...

Writing Measurable Learning Objectives

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

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 ...

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 ...

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