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Course Facilitation

Four Tips for Facilitation

Facilitation in an online course refers to the faculty’s ability to construct an environment where student discourse expands student knowledge and promotes the learning objectives.

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Instructional Design

Working in Tandem: How Faculty and IDs Create a Quality Online Course

Like riding a bike for the first time, it is best to bring a friend along to support you when developing an online course. The relationship between the faculty member, or Subject Matter Expert (SME), and Instructional Designer (ID) is essential to creating a quality online course.

Quality Matters

Quality Matters Monday: Standard 5.2

General Standard 5 addresses learning activities and learner interaction to meet the learning objective goals. This standard specifically addresses how learning activities provide opportunities for interaction that support active learning.

Quality Matters

Quality Matters: Standard 8.3

Standard 8.3 addresses the importance of providing alternative means of access to course materials in formats that meet the needs of diverse learners. One of the greatest advantages of online

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Assessments and Assignments

Scaffolding Learning in the Online Classroom

The online student population is becoming increasingly diverse and complex. Clinefelter, Aslanian, and Magda (2019) note that recent trends show online students are getting younger, however, this trend doesn’t mean

Quality Matters

Quality Matters Monday: Standard 1.1

Standard 1.1 focuses on making sure that learners know where to get started and find various components via the course introduction. At the most foundational level, before learners can proceed

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Instructional Design

5 Questions to Ask Before Gamifying Your Online Course

Online education is a dynamic field filled with exciting opportunities to innovate. From advanced approaches to instruction to multimedia use in the online classroom, the ways in which online learning

Quality Matters

Quality Matters Monday: Standard 5.3

General Standard 5 addresses course activities and learner interaction to meet the learning objective goals. This standard specifically addresses the instructor’s plan for classroom response time and for clearly stating

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