Right now, post-secondary accreditation is in a state of flux. If you’re wondering when isn’t accreditation evolving, you’re right. As governing bodies and accreditors continue to negotiate standards, colleges and
What are some AI tools that you can incorporate into your online classroom to enhance student engagement, personalize learning, offer individualized feedback, and encourage additional practice and application? The free,
With the proliferation of AI tools, it can often feel overwhelming as new ones seem to emerge daily. Determining where to begin when integrating these tools into your course development,
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.
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 knowledge construction occurs on the discussion board. The constructivist approach shifts the focus from the instructor to the students, and
Get To Know Rasha Rasha joins Risepoint as an instructional designer and will support faculty in course design. Rasha has more than 13 years of expertise in higher education leadership,
Implementing alternative strategies for discussion boards an help enhance your course from initial student introductions to end-of-semester reflections.
Quizzes are incredibly useful tools in any online course. They provide students with immediate feedback on their learning, build metacognitive
When designing an online course, developers often start with a clear plan for readings and resources that align with assessments.
The term module means different things to different people. For our purposes, modules are containers—organizational units or buckets of content—that
Assessments refer to the activities students complete to demonstrate their competency in relation to predefined learning objectives. Broadly speaking, there
Enhancement is a critical component of an online course’s life cycle. Just as you must maintain a car or home
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