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

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Managing and Facilitating Discussions

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 24, 2020

Building Community with Discussion As an instructor, you can leverage discussions to build community in digitally enhanced courses. A satisfying digital learning experience includes opportunities for students to interact with their peers and sha ...

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 ...

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