Category: Teaching Online

Course Facilitation

Shared Course Preparation Checklist

Utilizing the same master shell between multiple faculty is a great way to ensure students have the same experience regardless of who is facilitating the course. When developing and facilitating

Course Facilitation

Teaching an Online Course You Did Not Design

You’ve been notified by your department chair or dean you will be teaching a new to you online course in the upcoming semester. The dean/chair knows you have not taught

Course Facilitation

New Facilitation Training to Drive Student Persistence

  While institutions seek ways to retain their students, students seek to persist through their program. Some may feel that this is simply a subtle nuance, however, this nuance shifts

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Assessments and Assignments

Alternative Discussion Types

Using Forums Discussion boards are the core of many online courses and play a key role in community building, critical thinking, and assessment. In order to foster participation and information

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Course Facilitation

4 Tips for Facilitation

As you begin your online course, you will want to consider how to guide your students through the course. In other words, how will you facilitate their learning journey? Facilitation

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Course Facilitation

Teaching Presence and Facilitation

“Those teachers who are students of their own effects are the teachers who are the most influential in raising students’ achievement.” John Hattie (2008) One of the largest influences on

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Student Success Guide & Worksheet

We spend many hours planning and designing our courses, but once the course begins, how do you plan for facilitation? The Student Success Guide and Student Success Worksheet provides templates, checklists, worksheets, and strategies instructors can use to help their online students succeed in their accelerated course and persist throughout their program.

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