Keeping Students on Board with Concept Maps
The benefits of concept maps are well established. They encourage students to organize knowledge and do so in ways meaningful to them. They help students sort out, prioritize, and understand...
View ArticleMonitor Nonverbal Communication to Know When and How to Intervene in the...
In the face-to-face classroom, nonverbal communication such as facial expressions, body posture, eye contact, gestures, and attendance are often used to gauge students’ engagement and understanding....
View ArticleHelping Students More Accurately Assess Their Performance
Are your students overly optimistic about their course grades? It is the time of the semester when reality starts sinking in, although many students in trouble don’t express surprise or concern until...
View ArticleCan New Technologies Increase Interaction in Online Education?
There are three types of interaction in online courses: learner-to-content, learner-to-instructor, and learner-to-learner. Each contributes to student retention and motivation. This article elaborates...
View ArticleThe Power of We
Additional Authors: Caitlin Greatrex and Josh KleinBeing a college professor sometimes feels lonely. Yes, we have colleagues in our departments and elsewhere on campus, students in our classrooms, and...
View ArticleOnline Learning 2.0: Easy Animation for Teaching
Why animation?The first thing I look for when I visit a new website is a short video describing what the organization or person does. If I don’t see a video, I consider the site amateurish.Online...
View ArticleHow to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking Skills
Students love it when teachers provide class notes—the more complete the set, the better. Students want the teacher’s notes online because it’s convenient, they’re readable, well organized, and relieve...
View ArticleOnline Learning 2.0: Turn Your Students into Teachers
Teaching as learningInstead of encouraging students to “give back to the teacher what the teacher wants,” students must truly understand the material in order to synthesize it into a coherent teaching...
View ArticleAssessing Team Members
Teachers who use group work frequently incorporate some sort of peer assessment activity as a means of encouraging productive interactions within the group. If part of the grade for the group work...
View ArticleUsing Self-Determination Theory to Improve Online Learner Motivation
According to self-determination theory, a theory developed by Deci and Ryan, three basic psychological needs affect motivation: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Susan Epps, associate professor of...
View ArticleThe Art of Asking Questions
At one time or another, most of us have been disappointed by the caliber of the questions students ask in class, online, or in the office. Many of them are such mundane questions: “Will material from...
View ArticleEvaluating Online Discussions
Discussions in class and online are not the same. When a comment is keyed in, more time can be involved in deciding what will be said. Online comments have more permanence. They can be read more than...
View ArticleLetting the Students Lead
The joy of discussion as a class activity is starting it up and seeing where it goes. Although some of the same themes come up in every discussion, how they emerge and the connections they raise vary...
View ArticleFive Pedagogical Practices to Improve Your Online Course
Because online courses have fewer opportunities for the spontaneous, real-time exchanges of the face-to-face classroom, online instruction requires a deliberate approach to design and facilitation. As...
View ArticleReading Circles Get Students to Do the Reading
In my course, the required reading is intensive and extensive. Students must read multiple texts that range across disciplines, genres, history, and culture. The goal of this interdisciplinary course...
View ArticleCreating an Ethical Online Environment
Because successful communication is essential to learning in an online course, instructors and instructional designers need to foster a respectful, welcoming environment and to prepare for potential...
View ArticleDoes Detection Software Solve the Plagiarism Problem?
Here’s the scenario: Concerned about the problem of plagiarism, you decide to start using a plagiarism-detection software program (say a software program like those available from Turnitin.com). You...
View ArticleBlended Learning: Integrating Online and F2F
Blended learning entails more than simply replacing class time with online course elements or supplementing an online course with face-to-face meetings. To be successful, the online and face-to-face...
View ArticleQuick Feedback, Engaged Students
We often wonder what we can do to help students engage with the material so they can learn it at a deeper level. Students don’t make that an easy task. They arrive in class having not read the material...
View ArticleSelecting the Appropriate Communication Tools
When designing an online course it’s important to carefully consider which tools align with the course’s learning objectives and the types of communication that will occur.There are three types of...
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