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SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I used traditional grading practices, assessing student progress through quizzes, tests, project, midterms and finals each year. As I improved it, I also worked on developing a smoother flow and incorporating reflections into the course. From 2011-2015, I continued to iterate on the course design for my class.

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Syllabus Learning Course Outline History 156

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. HyFlex courses can be deceptively difficult to do well. These are not challenges associated with online courses. Provide course materials.

Learning 105

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 105

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). Technology integration played a pivotal role in bridging the gap between campuses.

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Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). Technology integration played a pivotal role in bridging the gap between campuses.

Teaching 87

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 87

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. HyFlex courses can be deceptively difficult to do well. These are not challenges associated with online courses. Provide course materials.

Learning 98

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 98

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Could tests be replaced by project-based work? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. Do exams still serve a purpose? Bethany Bovard defined the difference in her own words. “I

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 96

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Tutor pushes beyond simple multiple-choice quizzes. So far, OpenStax Tutor is available for beta testing in physics, biology and sociology courses. And for some faculty, the biggest question is: What about the extras the publishers give us (like those homework systems that automatically grade work students turn in)?

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Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 117

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Wesley Engers has an unusual hobby: beta testing online courses from well-known colleges and universities. He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I

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Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. In a paper Koedinger co-published in Science , he found that as instructors consider their course design and teaching options during a typical college course, they’re picking from trillions of possibilities.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

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JANUARY 16, 2018

Let Professor Neil Garg Inspire Your Course Design. Explore Garg’s organic chemistry course file with links to practice problems, quizzes, and study guides. See how Course Hero can help inspire your course design. One of the ones I typically do is the Breathalyzer test.

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Lecturing Course Design Assignments Quizzes 137

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JANUARY 6, 2017

I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers.

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Course Design Online Learning Teaching Motivation 143

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

How do you leverage technology in your course? I’ve automated the grading for my essay test, which I was finally able to do with the help of a friend who programmed me a special little system this past year that I call Alucarda. Resources to Inspire Your Course Design. Editor’s note: What is alucarda spelled backward?]

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Education Lecturing History Quizzes 126

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

Let Professor John Boyer Inspire Your Course Design. Explore the World Regions course file , with links to notes, quizzes, and study guides. Watch Boyer's "The Wild Tale of the Rise of Vladimir Putin," a Course Hero Master Class. Understand how Boyer integrates technology into his course design.

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Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 139