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New 'Playbook' Explains Four Elements of Great Online Courses

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Throughout, the playbook explores themes of providing students with support in online courses, making such courses equitable, and the importance of continuously improving them. Before getting too far into designing a course, study the basics of Universal Design for Learning to help ensure most students will be able to participate.

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Course-Correcting Mid-Semester: A Three Question Feedback Survey

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When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002). Sojka et al.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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Adjuncts may also be at a disadvantage when it comes to technology access and support. We accept transfer credit for students, why don’t we accept transfer courses for adjuncts?” I wish adjuncts had the same access to teaching online as full-time faculty. Andersen says. “I I wish there was more equity around it.

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Course-Correcting Mid-Semester: A Three Question Feedback Survey

Faculty Focus

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002). Sojka et al.

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?Anticipating and Addressing Challenges With Technology in Developmental Education

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This includes the provision of electronic access to the course syllabus, reading and viewing materials, assessments, the course calendar, grades, course evaluations, discussion boards, and other important course materials. Student support technology supports students’ academic performance.

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Using the LMS Effectively to Reduce Logistical Challenges for Students 

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Even before the pandemic, students were becoming accustomed to having a digital (and therefore readily accessible) extension of their classes via an LMS. Ensure content in the LMS course matches syllabus content and information (it’s ok to have information in both the syllabus and the LMS).

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What It Takes For a College to Go Online

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In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.

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