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Why combining assessments and LMS technology is essential

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Testing can help students better retain and recall what they studied, not only for the final exam, but as part of their overall educational development. This is the “testing effect,” or the phenomenon where taking a quiz can enhance later retention of studied materials, and its effectiveness has been demonstrated many times over.

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?Can Online Teaching Work at Liberal-Arts Colleges? Study Explores the Pros and Cons

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Edward’s University , where he works as an associate professor of philosophy and the director of the Center of Ethics and Leadership , was one of the 21 institutions taking part in a study to explore teaching upper-level humanities courses online. Edward’s held in May 2017 that focused on adopting IT tools. A “modified yes,” he says.

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When His Roster Outgrew His Classroom, This Prof Mastered Modular Online Curriculum

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When forced to redesign his course, Robertson saw an opportunity to move toward a curriculum that offered more flexibility than his linear syllabus ever could. In this system, students choose from a menu of content delivery options (textbook, downloadable study guides, lectures) and interaction options (in-person or online).

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Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed?

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From the start, access has been the defining achievement of online learning. Then came several new studies concluding that low-income students at U.S. One headline in The New York Times summed-up the findings: “Online Courses Fail Those Who Need Help.” Or so I thought. community colleges.

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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And so the online and hybrid courses these institutions spun up during the pandemic came with little of the scaffolding that experts recommend. This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It

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Faculty Say Online Programs ‘Cannibalize’ On-Campus Courses at George Washington University

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Kurt Darr A report from that investigation, shared with the faculty senate on Friday, suggested that “there are issues with how the courses are being monitored and how they are impacting face-to-face programs that haven’t been addressed,” the GW Hatchet reports.

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Supporting Student Well-being in Virtual Learning 

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The organization TILT Higher Ed (Transparency in Learning & Teaching) provides examples and resources that faculty can adopt to show greater transparency in explaining to students the “why” behind course activities and assignments. But what can faculty do to try to remediate this long-standing problem?

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