Reaching out to students early and often before a semester begins and throughout the first week of class makes a major impact on students’ success.
Each page in your online course and every piece of content you create for your students is a chance for you to set the tone and climate, support discourse, and communicate your expectations. These pages and pieces of content represent “you” to your students, and they will look to these pages to help keep them engaged and encouraged.
Review some of the checklists, templates, and examples to learn more about how you can impact student melt.
Over one weekend, the Nursing faculty and leadership at Millersville University were able to map all MSN and FNP Core courses to their program student learning outcomes using Coursetune.
Quality Matters (QM), a global organization leading quality assurance in online and innovative digital teaching and learning environments, has recently released their newest edition of the QM Higher Education Rubric.
Writing discussion board prompts can be intimidating. Use this simple template to help set you and your students up for success.
Using effective assessment techniques can improve an instructor’s understanding of student needs and support learner-centered courses.
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.
In the online, constructivist learning environment, rich and robust collaborative knowledgeconstruction occurs on the discussion board. The constructivist approach shifts the focus from the instructor to the students and the
Implementing alternative strategies for discussion boards an help enhance your course from initial student introductions to end-of-semester reflections.
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.
Here are some strategies you can consider when planning for how you’ll communicate with your students on discussion boards.
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