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New 'Playbook' Explains Four Elements of Great Online Courses

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“Our faculty playbook provides just-in-time guidance from digital learning experts which builds on their decades of experience delivering high-quality online education.” Here are summaries of the four essential elements of successful online courses, according to the playbook.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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We heard from Albat and Stephanie Del Tufo, assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, who studies individual differences in learning, language and literacy. Jennifer, as an instructional designer, are there particular concerns that you look out for? Physical accessibility.

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A Shift Toward Learning Design: What It Isn't, Why It's Needed, and If It's Right for You

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At the university level, course design has traditionally been easy for faculty to manage on their own—until, that is, digital technologies began to play a role and online courses started to take off. Sample Courses from Georgetown's MA in Learning and Design.

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?What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’?

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A few trees were saved, but courses weren’t any smarter. So if automation and interactivity differentiate a smart phone from a phone, what makes a course “smart”? What attributes of course design and applications of technology transform outcomes and impact, as opposed to gratuitous investment in technology for technology’s sake?

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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

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Care, Communication, Support: Core for Designing Meaningful Online Collaborative Learning ,” by Heather Robinson, Whitney Kilgore, Scott Warren (article), offers insight about communication and collaboration online. Effective Online Teaching ,” by Tina Stavredes (book), goes deep into pedagogical and instructional design theory.

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