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5 Traps That Will Kill Online Learning (and Strategies to Avoid Them)

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Online learning has moved to the front stage as 90 percent of high-income countries are using it as the primary means of educational continuity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Department of Education, Richard is a go-to person for exploring the shift we are experiencing in learning today. It’s painful to watch.

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Prepare For Fall: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Blended Learning Self-paced Online Course

Catlin Tucker

Module 7: The Power of Authentic Assessment in UDL and BL. My Getting Started with Blended and Online Learning and Advancing with Blended and Online Learning courses are also on sale this August for teachers who want to do a deep dive into blended learning as they prepare to head back to school this fall!

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?Online Courses Shouldn’t Use Remote Proctoring Tools. Here’s Why.

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Authentic assessments, rather than multiple choice or other online exams, is one alternative that could be explored. Another example could be in a psychology course, where students could curate and evaluate a set of resources on a given topic to demonstrate their ability to find, and critically analyze online information.

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Understanding why students cheat and use AI: Insights for meaningful assessments

eSchool News

Solution for teachers : To combat this, its important to make learning experiences relevant. Research indicates that authentic assessments, which apply classroom learning to real-world contexts, can significantly increase student engagement and minimize cheating. Online Learning Consortium.

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How to Eteach in a Covid-19 Pandemic

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If your teaching has been moved online in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, learn which webtools make online learning exciting for kids and easy for you in this class–starts March 23rd! MTI 562: The Tech-infused Teacher. MTI 562 starts Monday, March 23, 2020 . Click to sign up.

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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

Faculty Focus

Let’s also not forget about assessments. IDs can build authentic assessments, rubrics, and evaluation strategies (graded or non-graded, formal or informal, formative or summative, metacognitive or content-driven) to gauge students’ knowledge and skills.

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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

Faculty Focus

Let’s also not forget about assessments. IDs can build authentic assessments, rubrics, and evaluation strategies (graded or non-graded, formal or informal, formative or summative, metacognitive or content-driven) to gauge students’ knowledge and skills.

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