active learning

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 ...

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 ...

Gauging Student Understanding: CATs are puuuuur-fect

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

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 ...

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 ...

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 Does Active Learning Support Student Success?

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

March 11, 2013