Years of teaching and coaching online faculty have taught me that the move from face-to-face to online teaching brings both benefits and dangers. One benefit
Interview by John OrlandoCurt Bonk is one of the foremost authorities on open resources in higher education. A professor of education at Indiana University, he
It is unfortunate that faculty members often deliberately avoid creating competition in their courses out of fear of damaging student self-esteem or privacy considerations. Competition
Flipped learning has become a hot topic in online education lately. The flipped classroom model moves the act of delivering information to the student in
Despite a faculty member’s best efforts, online discussions often degenerate into students simply taking turns answering the original question rather than genuinely speaking to one
Cultivating student creativity is more and more being touted as a fundamental objective of education. We are also hearing more and more about the benefits
I recently took a canoe paddle-making course with my son from an instructor who guaranteed that all participants would come away with a result that
I am often asked what software I would suggest for student collaboration on files, such as group projects. Not surprisingly, my go-to systems are Google
The traditional Learning Management System discussion forum is the go-to method for hosting online student discussion. However, faculty members need not limit themselves to text
If the term “social media” conjures up images of Facebook, then you’re two or three years behind the millennial curve. Facebook has been called “your
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