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Guidance

Quick Tips for Online Assessments

As you design the content of your course, you’ll think a lot about assessment methods. Online assessments and assignments should take into consideration the their online audience, which is typically a population of adult learners.

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Guidance

Promoting Participation in Discussions

In the online, constructivist learning environment, rich and robust collaborative knowledge construction occurs on the discussion board. The constructivist approach shifts the focus from the

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Resource News

Resource News – April 2023

A collection of online teaching and learning news, conferences, white papers, research, and webinars. Get the latest resource news today!

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Guidance

Prompt Examples for Discussion Boards

These prompt examples for discussion boards provide faculty course developers with templates and inspiration for creating strong, community-building discussions for their students in various areas of their course and at various levels of course difficulty.

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Resource News

Resource News – March 24, 2023

Conferences OLC Innovate: Education Reimagined – OLC  April 2-6 (Virtual), 18-21 (Nashville)OLC and MERLOT are pleased to announce OLC Innovate 2023 and the opening of

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Guidance

Badging in Online Courses

Badging in online courses can be used for anything from increasing motivation and student engagement to highlighting student achievement, marketable skills, and course artifacts.

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Resource News

Resource News – March 10, 2023

Curated list of online teaching and learning articles, reports, research, white papers, podcasts, webinars, and conferences by Academic Services and Products at AP. This edition

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