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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

Faculty Focus

Chickering and Gamson (1987) remind us about the importance of participation and engagement in the classroom: “Learning is not a spectator sport. Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails.

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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

Faculty Focus

Chickering and Gamson (1987) remind us about the importance of participation and engagement in the classroom: “Learning is not a spectator sport. Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails.

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Marketplace trend update: 6 new products, teaching strategies, and learning initiatives

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Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education has launched a short online course designed specifically to help educators create rich and meaningful opportunities for communication within the classroom. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches in August with three online sessions.

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When to Teach Online Classes Live and When to Let Students Learn on Demand

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And some live video platforms, including Zoom, give participants the option to connect to the discussion by phone. Mike Caulfield is one of the people stressing the value of minimalist online course construction at this time. Department of Education. Back then, everything was asynchronous by default.

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Probing the Value of Online Student-Student Interaction

Faculty Focus

In the replies, there are always a few defenders of the pedagogical tools, but most participants affirm their widespread dissatisfaction. Of course, student contempt for a pedagogical tool shouldn’t ground its dismissal. Chang and Smith (2008) studied student engagement in a computer science course, again through a student survey.

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Is Higher Ed Really Ready to Embrace Hybrid Learning?

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That may mean hiring more staff who have expertise in digital course design and instruction—and reevaluating whether to pay for help from outside companies or bring services in-house. It may also mean doing more to truly prepare students for online learning.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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They dug into the principles of universal design for learning, how instructions can use rubrics to empower students to demonstrate knowledge in many different ways, and how to break up class sessions to make it easier for everyone to participate fully. We're already in a stressful situation. Physical accessibility.