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360 Degrees of Learning: Using Immersive Virtual Learning for Teaching

Elisabeth McGee, Emily Frank, Mechelle Roy, Erolle Dennis-Garner, Mauricio Viana, Derek Dudek, and Maria Puzziferro May 3, 2021

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders, educational content delivery at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) transitioned from face-to-face learning to a virtual learning model in March 2020. With this new virtual environment, students at USAHS had limited opportunities

Rethinking the Rules of Online Discussion

John Orlando April 19, 2021

One of the hallmarks of online learning is that students can engage in deeper discussion than they can in most face-to-face courses due to the additional think-time for crafting posts and responding to others. But many online instructors report disappointment in class discussions because students

Digital Drawing Tools for Online Teaching

John Orlando April 12, 2021

Digital drawing tools are a powerful yet underused resource for online educators. They are helpful in quantitative courses with equations, art and other classes that are heavy on visual analysis, and interactive sessions such as videoconferences.

Embodied Education: Teaching through Movement

John Orlando April 5, 2021

If you were to compare the average college class with the average elementary school class, one thing you would immediately notice is that college students almost never move around after they have sat down, whereas elementary classes often involve hands-on activities that require movement. There

Digital Timelines for Enhanced Learning

John Orlando March 22, 2021

As we teach specific topics in our classes, it is easy to lose the forest for the trees by looking at the topics in isolation from one another. For instance, a European history course might cover the various wars between France and Germany, but in

App Smashing for Virtual Presentations

Madeline Craig March 15, 2021

With the pandemic came a flurry of faculty quickly moving their courses online. The question I heard most during this time was, How can I move my students’ presentations online? Most faculty chose to have students do live video presentations with a system such as

How to Read Plagiarism Detection Reports

John Orlando February 22, 2021

Plagiarism detection reports from companies such as Turnitin are the primary way that faculty identify cheating on written work. But my experience in working with hundreds of faculty has shown me that most misread these reports because they have not received proper instruction on how

How to Create Transcripts and Closed Captions for Your Online Content

John Orlando February 8, 2021

Universal Design for Learning guidelines suggest that institutions provide a text alternative to videos, podcasts, and other media that use sound. This has traditionally been a laborious process of transcribing content manually after a recording is made. Although some faculty instead script their audio ahead

Whiteboards as an Alternative to Discussion Forums

John Orlando January 11, 2021

Online teachers generally assume that student discussion and collaboration should occur in a learning management system’s (LMS’s) discussion forum. But for certain uses, online whiteboards work better than the LMS due to their fundamentally different design.

Increasing Reading Comprehension and Student Engagement, Face-to-Face and Online

Gayle Sollfrank and Jo Clemmons January 4, 2021

Now that many of us have moved to a hybrid or online format, the conversation around student-to-content and student-to-student engagement has taken on a new level of significance and intention. We have developed a reading graphic organizer (RGO) that increases students’ reading comprehension, assesses their

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