Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s clear to me that the course design–how I lay out the mix of resources, homework, classwork, and more–affects how students absorb and share knowledge. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors knows a lot about how course design impacts learning. All of this starts with a good course design.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2015

The point is, of course, that you probably can Google every single concept you currently teach and your students know this well. An added challenge is to grapple with the informal course designs that are popping up all over the net. area similar questions. We might reference this phenomenon as “kitchen table” pedagogy.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2021

How were you able to apply the content after completing the courses? If you’re struggling to remember these basic aspects of the last course you completed, the course design could likely benefit from some improvement.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days. To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Tessa Wolf strengthened our commitment to inclusive course design.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Given this reality in which AI can provide and synthesize information for and to our students at their requests in seconds, it is not completely paranoid to ask the question, What can we, as college instructors, offer our students in the age of AI? The empathetic course design perspective. Teaching of Psychology, 52 (1), 45-52.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Digital course helps high schoolers develop critical skills they’ll need for workplace success. With this new course integrated into our college and career planning platform, students can more easily connect their learning to the critical work-readiness concepts they’ll need to succeed on Day 1 of the job.”. As the number of U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Students can perform their own analysis of the sample data and answer questions based on their results. Scratch is designed for students ages 8 to 16. Vernier Video Analysis : An extended free trial of this physics app is available through the end of June 2020.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

Here are summaries of the four essential elements of successful online courses, according to the playbook. Course Design Instructors should ask themselves: What do you want students to learn in your course? The answer to this question will help identify the right class materials, activities and assessments to use.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

But the experiment points to interesting possibilities — and raises ethical questions — about how the latest AI tech might be used to improve teaching. The AI agents will also be fed information from the course syllabi and turn in assignments. Actual students were interviewed to help develop the personas of the AI bots.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A) Choose questions that most students will be able to answer correctly. B) Vary the types of poll questions beyond multiple choice. D) Stress that students answer questions independent of their peers. Here are a few tips: Scaffold your questions as class progresses. Select all that apply. Play with the polls.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

But getting books to people spread across the world—and answering their research questions—is no simple task. Careful Course Design It starts with the digital course design process. Serving distance learners requires creativity and cooperation, librarians say, plus an appetite for bargaining with publishers.

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eLearning Course Design Students Distance Learning 159

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

With each group, I could answer questions in the moment and provide opportunities for teachers to bounce ideas off of one another. Other survey respondents indicated that they had trouble staying on task to complete online learning, and missed the opportunity to ask questions in the moment.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

The crucial question that has emerged is: how do we engage learners when we are not together physically? When it comes to learning, engagement is influenced by a learner's level of motivation, focus and cognitive ability as well as online course design and a teacher's decisions regarding facilitation style.

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Motivation Education Learning Feedback 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

That’s the question tackled by a research paper published this week. But some have raised questions about those efforts, which when done crudely can discourage students so much that they drop out , and may disproportionately discourage students who are first-generation or who don’t feel as welcome in a college environment.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Research on faculty perceptions suggests that the ideal enrollment for online courses is lower than what they would consider suitable for high-enrollment courses, with course design playing a crucial role. With fewer students, instructors can more easily track progress and adapt the course based on individual needs.

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Instructors Course Design Students Authentic Assessment 116

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Access and Equity Across topics, students have raised questions and concerns around who has access to the benefits of technological innovation, and which students or groups are not being served. Other fellows expressed that “too much focus is placed on career preparation, missing opportunities for learning and personal development.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

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. Audience question]: So I had a question about students with ADHD.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

This poses the question: How can we best serve our online students? This is in addition to online announcements posted in the Learning Management System and individualized outreach for folks who miss an assignment.

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Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 131

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Louis’ Olin Business School encourages instructors to select a few questions to create an authentic course introduction video. Interact consistently with students throughout the term, actively posing questions and remaining receptive to their inquiries. questions). Interview-style question bank. link] Wehr, K.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, I know it is important to be able to address the needs of diverse learners. Moore have organized the self-assessment tool into three sections: The context and design of your course. The text of your syllabus and course design.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible. Student success is teacher success.

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Students Motivation Feedback Communication 122

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The report urges schools away from all-in-one service bundles that outsource design, construction, and sometimes even teaching of online courses, and especially from contractors who promise hugely increased revenue. If we start with these questions, a very different and far more diversified approach to online learning may emerge.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? And more importantly, should we?

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Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Framework for Developing Your Approach to Generative AI AI can complete so many cognitive tasks that it can be overwhelming to comprehensively address generative AI in your courses. We have created a set of guiding questions to serve as a framework for developing your approach to generative AI. 2023; Gordon, 2023).

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Easily overlooked in this process can be maintaining the use of outside experts as guest speakers, panelists, or evaluators because of condensed class formats and the reliance on asynchronous elements in online course designs.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Louis’ Olin Business School encourages instructors to select a few questions to create an authentic course introduction video. Interact consistently with students throughout the term, actively posing questions and remaining receptive to their inquiries. questions). Interview-style question bank. link] Wehr, K.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Those are just some of the questions we’ve asked at #DLNchat , and the answers from your peers abound ! The host, @HigherEdSurge , will post questions using Q1, Q2, Q3, etc. to indicate the questions. These will often appear in the form of question cards as well, like the one below. Pacific / 4:00 p.m. Chat it up.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Research on faculty perceptions suggests that the ideal enrollment for online courses is lower than what they would consider suitable for high-enrollment courses, with course design playing a crucial role. With fewer students, instructors can more easily track progress and adapt the course based on individual needs.

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Instructors Course Design Students Authentic Assessment 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This faculty member may give exams and may collect student artifacts, such as projects or papers, but the faculty really doesn’t connect student performance with the course design or classroom experience. In this scenario, the faculty might be more preoccupied with the question, “Am I doing my job?”

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Feedback Course Design Assignments Evaluation 126

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible. Student success is teacher success.

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Students Motivation Feedback Communication 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

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. 7 Reasons Why Learning Design Might Be Right for You. You're always asking insightful questions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Built for Flexibility The first known course that called itself HyFlex emerged in 2006 , at San Francisco State University, taught by Brian Beatty, a professor of instructional design and technology. And one main driver was surprisingly mundane: traffic snarls that routinely kept students from getting to class on time.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

But as I noted in The nail in the coffin: How AI could be the impetus to reimagine education , we could “enchant learning in higher ed in such a way that people flock to it when they need to be energized, when they need a balm, when they are trying to figure out their why, when they have burning questions they want support in pursuing.”

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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Writing Plagiarism 138

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Although Lightboard videos have also been useful in traditional brick-and-mortar settings for students as just in time review after classroom sessions (Schweiker, Griggs, Levonis, 2020), online learning presents a different challenge because the instructor is not available in real-time to answer questions or elaborate on difficult concepts.

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