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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. Here are summaries of the four essential elements of successful online courses, according to the playbook.

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Colleges Can Turn Classes Into Virtual Communities. Here’s How.

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A clear, upfront communication policy stipulating response times can be very helpful for avoiding misunderstandings. Fourth, be brave and conduct a mid-term, anonymous evaluation of your course. Traditional end-of-course evaluations do your current students no good. The faster instructors respond, the better.

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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

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The threaded discussion felt always like the wrong medium for learning,” says Joyce Valenza, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, who has been teaching online since 2001. Many instructors see them as drudgery as well.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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Looking through a collection of teaching portfolios by her colleagues helped reassure her that she could redesign her course while preserving what worked about the classroom experience. These portfolios bring those internal workings out in ways that a syllabus or course evaluations could never capture,” she says.

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Connecting with Online Students

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Connecting Connections The practice of connecting with students helps to minimize power dynamics , begins to establish trust, and opens communication pathways. Louis’ Olin Business School encourages instructors to select a few questions to create an authentic course introduction video. questions). But why bother?

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The Daily Quiz

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I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. This means students have to determine how confident they are the group has correctly answered the questions. Students got no points if they missed all the questions. Once I’ve collected students’ answer sheets, we review the questions.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

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There's the option of just directly approaching them with an immediate concern or question. So, it really depends on how eager the student is to help improve the whole situation and the course specifically. I see for example some professors doing an informal course evaluation midway of the semester.

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