instructional design

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

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

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 ...

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 ...

The CATs in a Hat: Fostering Higher Order Thinking

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

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 ...

5 Things Successful Instructors Do When the Semester is Over

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

With finals week coming to an end and grading about to be completed, it is only natural to make a mad dash for the door and enjoy a well-deserved break. There is no question that we all need a break to relax and find inspiration, but befo ...

The ASU Instructional Designer: Building Effective Relationships

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

This post further breaks down some of the activities of Instructional Designers mentioned in the previous TeachOnline post, Introducing the ASU Instructional Designer, and discusses the importance of the relationship between the faculty and instructi ...

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 ...

What Makes a Remarkable Online Course? Part 2: Course Teaching and Facilitation Recommendations from ASU Faculty

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

What makes a learning experience for online students truly remarkable? We recently surveyed a group of ASU faculty to identify course design and facilitation elements they believe help to create remarkable learning experiences for online students. Fo ...

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 ...

What Makes an Online Course Remarkable? Part 1: Course Design Recommendations from ASU Faculty

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

What makes a learning experience for online students truly remarkable? We recently surveyed a group of ASU faculty in order to identify course design and facilitation elements they believe help to create remarkable learning experiences for online stu ...

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