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How 'Learning Experience Design' Helps Customize Online Courses at Scale

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An innovative synthesis of instructional design, educational pedagogy, design thinking, learning science best practices, and UI/UX, LXD lets forward-thinking schools and teachers create flexible, accessible, customizable courses that today’s digital natives increasingly want—and expect.

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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education

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OER and No/Low-Cost Textbooks: The program makes significant use of both. Studies have shown that reducing textbook costs can directly contribute to student success by allowing them to allocate resources to other essential needs (Miller and Murray, 2019). .” “Online Learning and Educational Equity.”

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Three Lessons Learned: Redefining Course Preparation for Online Teaching

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For instance, we offer a 400-level undergraduate literacy course to pre-service teachers. Our university uses an online learning platform, Desire to Learn (D2L). Students are required to complete online chapter quizzes based on the course objectives and textbook for the course within D2L.

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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education

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OER and No/Low-Cost Textbooks: The program makes significant use of both. Studies have shown that reducing textbook costs can directly contribute to student success by allowing them to allocate resources to other essential needs (Miller and Murray, 2019). .” “Online Learning and Educational Equity.”

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Three Lessons Learned: Redefining Course Preparation for Online Teaching

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For instance, we offer a 400-level undergraduate literacy course to pre-service teachers. Our university uses an online learning platform, Desire to Learn (D2L). Students are required to complete online chapter quizzes based on the course objectives and textbook for the course within D2L.

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

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But the article that resonated the most was Amy Ahearn’s: The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers. By including a range of voices (a recent graduate, publishing experts, and other professors), the story shows the complexity of the issues of textbook cost and quality.

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Maximizing Student Engagement During Live Online Seminars

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You can also include what we call a chat box which is a specific titled slide that has an open-ended question and students are asked to brainstorm ideas or practice the topics being presented followed by the instructor offering a guided response from the textbook or reliable source that gives students some additional feedback on their thinking.