Screencasting is one of the most important tools in my inventory as an online teacher. I am constantly making screencast tutorials to teach students processes,
Online faculty often assume that all student collaboration should go through the LMS discussion board, but there are other methods of hosting discussion. Yanyan Sun
Hundreds of studies have demonstrated that there is no significant difference in learning outcomes between online and face-to-face courses. But many students still report having
Student discussion differentiates online education from the old correspondence courses. But there are still many questions to answer in order to facilitate good discussion online.
Just split your video into smaller clips, and ask students to answer questions on each clip after watching it.
Cultivating Relationships OnlineFaculty spend most of their training in learning their subject matter. But when 17,000 students were asked to list the qualities of an
While most faculty stick with the tried-and-true quiz and paper assessment strategies for their online courses, the wide range of technologies available today offers a
One of the biggest failures of higher education is punishing student failure. A bad performance on an assignment is preserved and carried all the way
The traditional online course structure violates a fundamental principle of learning by separating the process of getting information from the process of engaging it. The
It is easy to forget that learning is not a simple transfer of information from the head of the teacher to the head of the
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