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

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Even when students are all in the same time zone—such as for most K-12 schools and community colleges—getting to a live online class on time can be challenging for those who live in households where there aren’t enough computers or tablets for every learner, or where the internet connection isn’t robust enough.

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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

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Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms.

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Pecha Kucha is the Answer

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During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et. Students claim that instructors aren’t actually teaching, and instructors can face negative reactions to a change in their lecturing methods that were already difficult to create and introduce.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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What are some of the accessibility needs college students have that instructors, researchers and course designers should be thinking about when moving courses online? Do they have internet connections? This helps students who have, you know, a low internet connection or stream quality is really poor on a video.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

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Following defined student learning outcomes in a pre-course ensures alignment with the main course objectives, providing clarity, focus, and relevance to the content covered. After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex.

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Pecha Kucha is the Answer

Faculty Focus

During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et. Students claim that instructors aren’t actually teaching, and instructors can face negative reactions to a change in their lecturing methods that were already difficult to create and introduce.

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Higher Ed Has Now Split Into Dual Economies: Online and Traditional

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Lecture halls and dormitories circle them, busy with faculty members and students coming and going on campus. Before the invasion of the internet, the university comprised a secure, single identity; now—with about a third of college students online —the American college is bifurcated.

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