Online courses appeal to a variety of student populations and remove barriers encountered by non-traditional and adult learners in face-to-face programs. In online courses, “all course activity is done online;
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,
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
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Implementing alternative strategies for discussion boards an help enhance your course from initial student introductions to end-of-semester reflections.
Badging in online courses can be used for anything from increasing motivation and student engagement to highlighting student achievement, marketable skills, and course artifacts.
To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you’re going so that you better understand where
Course acceleration is a multi-step process that requires you to deconstruct previous course content in order to reconstruct it in a new, accelerated format. Consider some of the following strategies to help you accelerate your course:
Are you concerned about the quality of your recorded videos for your online courses? The Course Video Scoring Rubric below provides you with additional guidance on how to improve the
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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.
Review some of the checklists, templates, and examples to learn more about how you can impact student melt.
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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