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What Job Design Can Teach Us About Course Design

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As with all course design choices, these ideas are not required for success; you are welcome to choose what feels authentic to your style. In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment. Use assignments as feedback about how the material is landing with students.

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What Job Design Can Teach Us About Course Design

Faculty Focus

As with all course design choices, these ideas are not required for success; you are welcome to choose what feels authentic to your style. In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment. Use assignments as feedback about how the material is landing with students.

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Fostering Teamwork: Implementing Collaborative Assignments as High-Impact Practice

Faculty Focus

Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course. One of the most accessible practices on this list might be collaborative assignments and projects. Emphasize the importance of each component or stage.

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Fostering Teamwork: Implementing Collaborative Assignments as High-Impact Practice

Faculty Focus

Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course. One of the most accessible practices on this list might be collaborative assignments and projects. Emphasize the importance of each component or stage.

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Professors Take Out Ads Protesting Their University’s Online Degree Programs

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But the two faculty unions, the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and the EMU Federation of Teachers, which represents adjuncts, say that the company is involved in many aspects of course design and could bring in outside online coaches for students without faculty oversight.

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Integrating Guest Speakers and Panelists in Online Courses 

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Easily overlooked in this process can be maintaining the use of outside experts as guest speakers, panelists, or evaluators because of condensed class formats and the reliance on asynchronous elements in online course designs. All four approaches preserve an essential element of traditional brick-and-mortar classroom experiences.

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How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half

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Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. So far about seven courses at other colleges have adopted the site so far for their courses.

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