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Formative Assessments for Online Courses

Using effective assessment techniques can improve an instructor’s understanding of student needs and support learner-centered courses.

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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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Alternative Strategies for Discussion Boards

Implementing alternative strategies for discussion boards an help enhance your course from initial student introductions to end-of-semester reflections.

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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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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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The Community of Inquiry Matrix

This Community of Inquiry (COI) Matrix helps faculty course developers identify how to incorporate COI strategies for selecting content, setting climate, and supporting discourse at each course level based on Bloom’s taxonomy.

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Designing Purposeful Online Discussions

This recorded webinar series provides supplementary guidance to faculty working with Academic Partnerships’ instructional designers and those seeking professional development opportunities to improve their online teaching and learning skill sets.

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Easy & Consistent Grading: Designing Rubrics that Work

This recorded webinar series provides supplementary guidance to faculty working with Academic Partnerships’ instructional designers and those seeking professional development opportunities to improve their online teaching and learning skill sets.

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Soft Skills for Career Ready Students

This recorded webinar series provides supplementary guidance to faculty working with Academic Partnerships’ (AP) instructional designers (ID) and those seeking professional development opportunities to improve their online teaching and learning

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Mirroring Professional Experiences in Your Courses

This recorded webinar series provides supplementary guidance to faculty working with Academic Partnerships’ (AP) instructional designers (ID) and those seeking professional development opportunities to improve their online teaching and learning

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