Blended Learning
I took apart the first watch my parents bought me as a birthday present. As I remember it, I was more curious than perverse. I have always liked seeing how things work, how they are put together, in...
View ArticleEffective Online Grading
Using online tools in student assessment is an important strategy for today's faculty. These grading tools offer faculty and students many efficiencies and enhancements that allow for success and...
View ArticleDaily Experts: A Technique to Encourage Student Participation
If you're interested in approaches that encourage students to speak in class and develop their public-speaking skills, as well as techniques that help you learn student names, then my "daily experts"...
View ArticleOnline Learning and Service-Learning: How They Can Work Together
The benefits of having students engage in service activities to help create richer and more meaningful connection to course material have been well documented and utilized in higher education. However,...
View ArticleA Course Redesign that Contributed to Student Success
Required introductory courses, especially those in math and science, offer special teaching challenges. Frequently, these are courses that must be completed before students can proceed to their chosen...
View ArticleInstructor Characteristics That Affect Online Student Success
Which online instructor characteristics help students succeed? It’s a rather basic question that has not been adequately answered. We did a literature search to find if anybody had done any research...
View ArticleFive Habits—Easy but Often Neglected Practices That Improve Outcomes
Given the daily grind of teaching, it is easy to forget that little practices can make a big difference when the goals are more learning and better teaching. Here is a reminder of five easy habits to...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Online Learning Experience
Barbara Zuck, assistant professor of business at Montana State University–Northern, was teaching a 100-level online course in business leadership and wanted to understand her students’ experiences in...
View ArticleMetacognitive Pestering for Beginning Students
Watching my own son spend his first semester in college struggling with meeting deadlines was an up-close reminder of something I have learned after 30 years of teaching. Beginning college students are...
View ArticleGroup Work, Discussion Strategies to Manage Online Instructor Workload
Shrinking budgets and increasing enrollments are putting online instructors in the position of teaching larger classes. Accommodating more students means rethinking how you teach your courses....
View ArticleLong-Term Benefits of Learner-Centered Instruction
Often these questions are raised about courses using learner-centered approaches: What if this is the only learner-centered course taken by the student? Is one course enough to make a difference? There...
View ArticleBuilding Learning Communities beyond the Online Classroom
Many online instructors strive to create a community of learners within their courses. But once the course is over, this community typically disbands. Robert Zotti is working on projects to sustain...
View ArticleTeachable Moments - The Grading Conference
Grading student papers may be the college instructor’s least pleasant duty. Most of us carefully mark each page, noting problems, questioning assumptions, and offering additional information, many...
View ArticleSimplifying Online Course Design
Good course design is essential to effective online learning. In an interview with Online Classroom, Richard Smith, associate professor and coordinator of the instructional technology program, and...
View ArticleNot Just for Introductory Courses
Most professors want students to know how to research and write in their fields. In fact, many degree programs now have introductory courses for majors with content that addresses these research and...
View ArticlePractical Advice for Going from Face to Face to Online
Developing an online course based on an existing face-to-face course requires more than learning how to use the technology and loading the material into the learning management system because, as...
View ArticleAn Assignment that Prevents Plagiarism
A qualitative study of plagiarism (which was highlighted in the February 2010 issue of the newsletter) reported that although students know that plagiarism is wrong, most are quite confused about what...
View ArticleBrain-Based Online Learning Design
Abreena Tompkins, instruction specialist at Surry Community College, has developed a brain-based online course design model based on a meta-analysis of more than 300 articles. In this study, she...
View ArticleDead Ideas in Teaching
In her 2010 presidential address to the Midwest Sociological Society (a published version of the speech is referenced below), Diane Pike proposed three ideas about teaching that she says are dead. She...
View ArticleRecommendations for Blended Learning Course Design
Blended learning course design entails more than simply converting content for online delivery or finding ways to supplement an existing face-to-face course. Ideally, designing a blended course would...
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